Ask A Jags Fan

one in a million. lol
The team in general is coming around, but the offense isn’t built to score that much. Our WR’s are either hurt or not good., and in some cases both.
At one point special teamer Kassim Osgood was our #2 WR with a practice squad steal as our third.

Gabbert is surprisingly smart for a rookie, but he’s had no practice time with the receivers he’s going to be playing with this week, aside from Jarrett Dillard.
Also we might be out a kicker. Josh Scobee has been great all year, but he hurt his groin before the start of the Bucs game.

all season. Now the offense wasn’t necessarily playing together as a unit, so they didn’t have chemistry in that sense, but that was more of a case of not having an off season and cutting Garrard last minute and then starting a rookie shortly there after.
The defense despite having been almost completely overhauled has had great chemistry and has had very few issues either in execution or communication. The SD game we were exposed for having a little too much to overcome on such short notice last Monday night.
With the coaching change I do sense a slight difference in improved energy, but I think that has to be coupled with a few other things. We made a few upgrades with position coaches, at QB and WR specifically. We fired the WR coach and replaced him with the QB coach and replaced the QB coach with the OC coach, who continues to be the OC also. These changes should have been made a long time ago, because we actually saw regression with our receivers that were improving every year leading up to this year. And not to mention our former QB coach was never a proven QB coach and our former WR coach was never a proven WR coach.
The ownership change also gave the team along with the rest of the community a boost emotionally. Not sure why, because our former owner has been great to the team and community, but it did have an effect.

Not sure this is one. It really created a faction.
There was no consensus.

I was in the camp that wanted Garrard to play for another year while Gabbert got to learn behind him. If Garrard had this years defense last year, we would have easily made the playoffs in a year without Peyton Manning.

However there were many people that were tired with the status quo at QB and wanted Luke McCown starting until Gabbert was ready, but even more wanted to start Gabbert from the get go let him learn from this year. Most people that wanted Gabbert to start from the get go expected him to start out at Garrard’s level and only get better. But I think those people have finally either understood that Garrard was undervalued/underrated or they just believe Gabbert is already a bust.

Having said all of that, the point is moot because Garrard was injured. The move actually just saved us a bunch of money and it allowed Gabbert to get a head start on next year.

is fairly minimal. The roster is very easy to coach. Everyone is smart and none of them are knuckleheads. The GM cut all troublemakers and almost all of his draft picks were captains on their college teams, and none of them have quit in them.

However the impact next year might be felt from Del Rio getting fired. JDR getting fired opened up the door to the team totally gutting the coaching staff next season, which means a young QB like Gabbert would have to get used to another offense, when he’s just now getting used to this one. I’d prefer if he didn’t go the Alex Smith route to success and just let him get really comfortable in one system.

you know he’s got the tools. He has the arm and athleticism.

But he’s also a great decision maker even at a young age(Youngest at his position), and he sees the field really well, and the more he gets a handle of this offense the more he goes through his progressions. Which is hard to do in his situation. It is definitely not a rookie sanctuary here. The WR’s get very little separation and have troubles holding on to passes that do reach them. The offensive line is getting better, but it’s gone through it’s struggles with injuries and a rookie or 2 playing from time to time, including one rookie that was an UDFA from a division 2 school. And the system in general is as pro style as they come. Everything is done from the pocket. You don’t have any option plays and you don’t have a lot of boots or half field reads.

If you watch Gabbert enough, it’s easy to see that he is progressing and that he probably has a bright future. People outside the organization might be talking about acquiring another QB, but not in house. The whole teams believes he has a bright future and his behind him.

here’s a little vid of an in depth look from a couple plays last week.

I’ve actually been pleasently surprised with our shotr pass D. Saints game was a masterpiece of defending the flats.

give MJD the ball. It’s been the one thing that’s worked all season on offense. Truth be told until recently we haven’t thrown to him much, but now that we are, it’s made a dramatic difference in helping the team move the ball. Gabbert has been going through progressions, to no avail, but rarely checked the ball down until recently.
Early in the season we were horrible at executing screens, partly because everyone on defense knew with our struggling offense and rookie QB it was one of the few things they had to look for. But now we’ve improved some in that aspect. Still, we don’t run screens all that often, but when we do they tend to work fairly well

who will be our next coach. We have a brand new owner so who knows what he’s thinking. And our GM, if he’s anything like he is during the draft, will completely surprise people. He doesn’t go after big names in the draft and he might continue that trend with HC candidates.
But some of the names thrown around have been Jeff Fisher, your OC Mularkey, former Packers HC Mike Sherman, Jay Gruden.

My guess is that he will be a lesser known assistant coach, kind of like the Ravens’ HC John Harbaugh.

He is an offensive genius. :D

Of the bag, we know now. Where abouts are you in SoCal? I’m down here in San Diego, got a small group started with KashBerry and Aces, plus ocfalcon, we get together every once in awhile to watch the Falcons. It’s been at my house the first two times, planning a ATL road trip next year..

is they wont be moving. For reasons given in a comment above. Namely: the original owner sold it specifically to the new owner because he would keep the franchise in Jax, and there is also a lease that would make it very difficult to move the team.

However before the season started pretty much everyone was happy about the drafting of Gabbert. Many of us liked Garrard, but some thought he was holding the team back, but in both cases we knew that he needed to be replaced eventually.
And from there there were 3 groups of people:
1. Wanted to keep Garrard until Gabbert beat him out.
2. Wanted to cut Garrard and let McCown play until Gabbert was ready.
3. The third group thought Gabbert was gonna come out already better than Garrard and or that the starting experience would get him ready for next year.
Personally I wanted to go route 1. I like the Aaron Rodgers route, and I thought Gabbert could have developed while Garrard led the way to the playoffs this year. I thought last year’s offense with this year’s defense easily could have gotten into playoff contention.

But if you ignore the numbers and watch Gabbert closely, he doesn’t look like a bust. He looks like a rookie that’s developing, which he is.

a glorious Stache. It even has it’s own twitter account.

with being in Jacksonville there were people that wanted Tebow to be drafted. But generally speaking the fans that were Jag fans first didn’t want to draft Tebow.

As for the front office. I don’t think there was any plan to draft Tebow before maybe the 4th round, and it wouldn’t have been as a QB. He probably would have switched to TE, H-Back, or FB.