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Commentary: Jaguars Need To Get Simple

After an 0-2 start, the Jaguars are entering a desperate time.

If they are going to make anything of this season, they are going to have to find a way to bridge the gap until Brad Meester and Jerry Porter can get back into the lineup. Meester is expected back in October as he returns from a torn biceps.

Porter still hasn't stepped on the field in a Jaguars uniform after signing a $30 million contract this off-season.

So how do they do it?

For starters, they have to run the football. When you start Milford Brown at right guard after just five days in town, you are going to have some issues. Keep it simple! Run the ball. After all, the Jaguars two best offensive weapons are Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew.

Through the first two games, the Jaguars have run 107 offensive plays. Taylor and Jones-Drew have touched the ball in 44 of those plays. That works out to just over 41%. While that may be a fairly high number as a rule (as an example, the Vikings Adrian Peterson has touched the ball in about 38.5% of his teams plays in the first two games and he's just one guy), for a Jaguars team that has scored just two touchdowns so far this year.

The Jaguars must utilize Taylor and Jones-Drew more often.

For example, in the fourth quarter against the Bills, in the drive after the Bills had taken a 17-16 lead, the Jaguars took over with 4:10 remaining. Plenty of time for a four minute drill. Control the ball. Run some clock. Move the chains. Did I mention run the ball?

Instead, the Jaguars opted for three pass plays from the shotgun. An incompletion to Matt Jones, and incompletion to Dennis Northcutt then a sack of David Garrard.

Are you serious? When you needed plays, needed to move the ball, Taylor and Jones-Drew didn't see the ball.

Yes, the Jaguars are dealing with injuries on the offensive line. And I know that Jones-Drew left the game with an ankle at one point. But he returned.

The last time that Taylor touched the ball was the 9:22 mark of the 4th quarter when the Jaguars had a six point lead. Instead, they treated the rest of the fourth quarter like they were trailing by 20 points.

If Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew aren't a bigger part of the offense, the Jaguars won't go anywhere.

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  • Coaching
    Art is exactly right in his training camp comments. And the 3 passing plays with 4:10 to go was ridiculous.

    What is Del Rio thinking? With our running backs, why doesn't it occur to him to move the ball with those weapons, maybe eat up a little clock time, finish it off with at least a field goal.
    No - go with the passing game which wasn't working that great anyway on that day.
    It's not too comforting to know he doesn't plan to change his approach. Maybe Mr. Weaver will change his. It seems we have gone into the last few seasons with just "a couple of missing ingredients". Besides getting rid of Leftwich, we haven't done much to get those ingredients into the mixture. It's sad to say we don't look like an elite team yet, even though every year we are projected to be.
  • Not tough enough
    After watching the Browns game last night, I am disgusted by the lack of toughness of the Jaguars. Both teams were flying all over the place, kncoking heads, making sound open field tackles and getting in each others faces. The Jags did none of that yesterday and to be honest, they haven't done that in week 1 in many years. In week 1 in 2007 and 2008, the Jags look unprepared and not physically strong enough. They get slapped in the mouth and do nothing about it. I think a new strength coach (and philosophy) and a tougher camp with full pads and scrimmages against other teams is needed for starters. We have entirely too many sore backs, tender quads, hang nails and PMS stumbling into the regular season and I think that's the result of a "country club" training camp and a Club Med off-season program.
  • BINGO!
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