Kaspers Korner

Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio made David Garrad the starting quarterback several seasons ago.

However, with what is happening now with Garrard his time is ending with the Jaguars.

According to ProFootballTalk.com, Del Rio is taking away some of Garrard’s ability to audible.

Considering that Garrard is not a rookie that means the Jaguars have lost confidence in him at quarterback.

At first it looked like Garrard would be the franchise quarterback as he had a stellar season.

Since, Garrard has been just merely average.

In the end if this doesn’t snap Garrard out of his funk then nothing will.

Jacksonville Jaguar Maurice Joned-Drew earlier this week ripped the offensive coaching staff.

Jones-Drew was right on the money with his comments.

Jones-Drew ripped the coaching staff for rotating the offensive line.

He is right, because communication is key between offensive lineman.

When offensive lineman are constantly rotated they lose that feeling of how and when a teammate communicates.

Everybody is different and some people are slower at picking up things while some are faster.

In the end they need to stop the nonsense and stick with five guys, because the little things do matter.

The Jacksonville Jaguars suspended wide receiver Mike Sims-Walker for this past Sunday’s game.

The move was absolutely foolish.

Sims-Walker apparently got suspended for violating the teams curfew.

That is absolutely the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

You mean to tell me that Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio couldn’t have just given him a heavy fine or make hin run until he pukes.

In the end the team paid for their stupidity by getting shut out by the Seattle Seahawks.

The Jacksonville Jaguars found their number one wide receiver in Mike Sims-Walker.

With the Jaguars also having tight end Mercedes Lewis you have to wonder how good can the Jaguars get.

The Jaguars offense has been struggling for a while as they have not had a number one wide receiver for several years.

Now, with the emergence of Sims-Walker the Jaguars look like they are regaining their form from a couple years ago.

In the end as long as the Jaguars stay healthy they will the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts for the division.

The Jacksonville Jaguars looks like they are heading for another horrible season.

Amongst the two losses a great story involving a Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver is starting to unfold before our eyes.

Mike Sims-Walker was taken in the third round of the 2007 National Football League Draft by the Jaguars.

However, a knee injury in the fourth preseason game erased his rookie season.

Then again in 2008 Sims-Walker suffered through several issues as he suffered a knee infection and several tragedies to friends and family, which included his father dying in December of 2008 to colon cancer.

Through all of that in the nine games that Sims Walker played in he caught 16 passes for 217 yards.

This year week two Sims-Walker caught six passes for 106 yards and a touchdown.

In the end the Jaguars look to finally have one of their own superstar wide receivers in the making.

The Jacksonville Jaguars turned over the franchise to quarterback David Garrard who initially looked like he was the real deal.

Now, the question is can Garrard bounce back after a dissapointing season.

Garrard had a break out year in 2007 with 2.509 passign yards with 18 touchdowns, and only three interceptions
In 2008 things fell apart as he threw for 3,620 yards with 15 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions.

The fact of the matter is that Garrard’s performance traces back to the play of the offensive line as it was horrible due to numerous starters suffering from injuries.

Both starting guards in Maurice Williams and Vince Manuwai suffered season ending knee injuries in the regulars season opener last year.
That dropped the Jaguars rushing attack from second in the National Football League in 2007 to 18th in 2008.

In the end simply as long as the offensive line stay healthy and plays well so will Garrard.

The Jacksonville Jaguars released running back Fred Taylor, thus making Maurice Jones-Drew the featured running back.

The question is now can Jones-Drew carry the load by himself?

Jones-Drew had 197 rushing attempts for 824 yards with 12 touchdowns.

With the departure of Taylor you can expect Jones-Drew to rush the ball over 300 times this season.

That is a big difference for a running back and that many carries leads to a lot of hard his.

That means either his body will handle it or he will constantly never play a full season.

That was the case with Taylor as every year he missed games, which led the Jaguars to take Jones-Drew.

In the end it will be up to the offensive lineman to stay on their blocks to the whistle as that will prevent less hits taken by Jones-Drew to reduce the chance that he will suffere an injury

The Jacksonville Jaguars going into the 2008 season were picked as one of the teams to win the Superbowl, but that got derailed as their interior of their offensive line was decimated by injuries.  Now, the question is can they stay healthy?

It took all of one game as the Jaguars lost starting guards Maurice Williams and Vince Manuwai for the season in their very first game.

Also, they were without center Brad Meester until week eight of the season.

That is all it takes for a team’s season to get messed up as the offensive line is the foundation to their offense as in 2007 they were the second ranked rushing offense in the National Football League, but fell to 17th in 2008 with the injuries.

Once the the running game fell apart the Jaguars offense fell apart.

The problem is that many offenses use the running game to set up the pass by using playaction off a successful running game.

The Jaguars have no threat at wide receiver so that means it is hard for the Jaguars to move the ball by just purely passing.

So, when the Jaguars lost the ability to run the football instead of being in third down and short like they were usually the Jaguars found themselves in a lot of third down and long situations.

Fortunately, the Jaguars did get smart this offseason by bostering the depth on their offensive line in drafting offensive tackels Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton, along with signing offensive tackle Tra Thomas in free agency.

Even with the additions that the Jaguars made offensively the problem is that they are a team in a very tough division being in the AFC South with the Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans.

As John Clayton has said, “The team that wins the Superbowl is the team that plays the least amount of winning teams and stays healthy.”

The National Football League being a six billion a year business some teams with the current economy could be heading for trouble.  The Jacksonville Jaguars could be the first team to file bankruptcy.

The Jaguars are in serious trouble as they are potentially looking at a television blackout of all eight home games, which would most likely be the first in recent history.

The Jaguars have only sold 35,000 nonpremium season tickets, which means that they team must sell 15,000 more to lift television blackouts.

Last year the Florida Times-Union points out that Jaguars sold 43,000 season tickets at this time last year.

The original seating capacity for Jacksonville Municipal Stadium was 73,000, but was reduced due to poor ticket sales.

Now, at 50,000 the team still cannot sellout games regularly.

The Jaguars stadium lease runs through 2030 and according to a old 2002 Times-Union article the lease is a really hard to get out of.

So, Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver has two options.  First, keep on taking losses yearly by the team until the contract runs out, or file for bankruptcy.

Any good business man is not going to consistently keep taking losses.  So, that means that sometime soon the Jaguars will file for bankruptcy.

The Jacksonville Jaguars were one of the early season favorites in 2008 to go to the playoffs, and make the Superbowl, but injuries derailed that.  For the Jaguars to win games they simply need to just stay healthy.

The Jaguars lost both of their starting guards within the first few weeks of the season for the year.  That caused them never to be the same, because they could not run the ball as well, or protect the quarterback.

They Jaguars have improved their offense by signing wide receiver Torry Holt.  Wide receiver was their only weak link on offense.

Also, the Jaguars refortified their offensive line signing free agent tackle Tra Thomas, and drafting tackles Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton.
Defensively, the only player that they lost was linebacker Mike Peterson, but he was fell out of favor last year with Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio.

The key for the defense will be the development of second year defensive ends Derrick Harvey and Quentin Groves.

They Jaguars have all the makings of a playoff contender, but they are in a division with the Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans.  That mean making the playoffs is a tall order.