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Jaguars In Prime Time 3 Times in 2008
by Cole Pepper
WOKV Sports Director
The Jaguars' playoff run in 2007 has put the spotlight on them in 2008. The NFL schedule, released by the league today, has the Jaguars playing 3 games in prime time, including a home game against the Steelers on Sunday night football October 5, a road game at Houston December 1, and a Thursday night affair at home against Indianapolis December 18, the next to last game of the regular season.
Here's the full schedule
Here is my list of the top 10 things the Jaguars will need to do this off-
season:
1. Sign David Garrard to an extension - DONE It is the top priority, as
far as I'm concerned. Garrard was the catalyst for the Jaguars
improvement on offense. He's the quarterback for the future...and the
present. He has just one more year remaining on his contract. Get it
done.
2. Capitalize on the Playoffs. This is really more about the front
office than the team. The excitement that the Jaguars produced must be
translated into dollars. This means three areas:
season ticket sales, club seat sales, and finding a naming rights partner
for the stadium.
3. Get younger on the defensive line-DONE The Jaguars strength in
the past had been the defense, most of it centered around Marcus Stroud
and John Henderson. This year, the Jaguars best linemen were Rob
Meier and Paul Spicer. The core group of defensive linemen for the
Jaguars (Henderson, Stroud, Meier, Spicer, Reggie Hayward, Grady
Jackson, Bobby McCray) average over 30 years old. That's a warning flag.
And Stroud, and Hayward have big red flags for injuries.
4. Upgrade the pass defense-DONE The weakest spot for the Jaguars
this year was in the pass defense. Some of that goes to a lack of pass
rush at times. Some of it goes to a rookie free safety, Reggie Nelson,
who was learning on the fly. Some of it can be attributed to the early
injury to Gerald Sensabaugh. So the question is, do the Jaguars have to
make personnel changes in order to be better against the pass?
5. Replace cherry-picked coaches-DONE There are bound to be some
assistants who take jobs elsewhere. There almost always are when you
have success. There are rumors that offensive assistant Mike Tice is a
candidate in Miami, quarterback's coach Mike Shula could get a
coordinators job and defensive coordinator Mike Smith was a candidate in
Atlanta. There may be others. Jack Del Rio did a superb job of hiring
assistants last off-season after he fired most of his offensive and special
teams coaches. Now, he'll have to replace guys he wanted...can he hit
the jackpot again.
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