Published on: 1st September, 2010
Never mind the old "one game at a time" adage. We're less than two weeks away from Jacksonville's regular season opener, and it's time to start sizing up the opposition. After all, that's what the Jaguars are doing. They'll travel to Atlanta for a fourth and final preseason contest this ...Published on: 27th August, 2010
If the Jacksonville Jaguars don't have Maurice Jones-Drew for their third preseason game Saturday, they'll have to get creative.Beat writer Vito Stellino of The Florida Times-Union tweeted Thursday that Jones-Drew has missed three days of practice as the Jaguars prepare for their trip to Tampa Bay."Injuries plaguing jags," (sic) Stellino ...Published on: 24th August, 2010
For the Jacksonville Jaguars, this past Saturday was more than just another week and another one-point exhibition loss.Aside from the ferocious thunderstorm that pushed their scheduled 7:30 p.m. kickoff back nearly two hours, the Jaguars' first televised contest in newly-christened EverBank Field was also the first start for 2010 first-rounder ...Published on: 22nd August, 2010
For keeper leaguers, fantasy football isn't just about picking this year's starters. Good drafting means staying one step ahead of the year-to-year surprises that overhaul redraft rankings each offseason.Granted, some of them really come out of nowhere. You might have been optimistic that Baltimore's Ray Rice would get the majority ...Published on: 1st August, 2010
On the football field, Al Groh's Virginia teams were a woeful 1-9 against in-state rivals Virginia Tech during his 10 years as head coach from 2001-09—but they almost always beat Tech in the first round of the NFL Draft. From 2004, when the first class of Groh's recruited seniors graduated, up ...Published on: 30th July, 2010
When Tyson Alualu doesn't sign a contract by the start of the Jacksonville Jaguars' training camp today, most casual observers will chalk it up to greed, the stereotypical motive for holdouts. And it's likely that they're completely wrong. According to TFY Draft Insider on Twitter, the Jaguars haven't yet offered ...Published on: 28th July, 2010
Sure, it's great that the Jaguars' five-year naming rights deal with EverBank ends in three years without a corporate sponsor for their stadium. But the real victory is that they decided on "EverBank Field" instead of "EverBank Stadium." It's true, of course, that the deal is a timely pick-me-up for the ...Published on: 27th July, 2010
On July 30, as head coach Jack Del Rio begins the process of shaping his Jaguars into a cohesive team for September, most of the 81 players present will engage in a ruthless, dog-eat-dog struggle for one of Jacksonville's 53 precious roster spots. A full-contact job interview—or, in layman's terms, "training ...Published on: 25th July, 2010
Though the Jaguars' first "real" game this fall is still two months away, the start of training camp next week poses a season-defining question to Jacksonville's faithful fans: What are you going to wear? The answer is more important than you might think. In every stadium, there are over-achievers who paint their ...Published on: 22nd July, 2010
After calling EA Sports out on the five biggest Jaguars-related mistakes in Madden 11 yesterday, it's time to reconcile by applauding five Jacksonville players whose virtual versions are spot-on. Most of the game's ratings, of course, are accurate enough that the team in the video game looks like the team we ...