it's the preseason
The first Jaguars preseason game was Saturday night, against the Miami Dolphins. So they got a test against a team with no offense and a decent defense. My cautious optimism just got a whole lot more cautious.
The first team offense looked awful. We are supposed to be seeing a new vertical passing game, more excitement and more points. Byron Leftwich is supposed to be maturing into the superstar everyone said he'd be. Well, the first series of downs went Toefield up the middle for 3, Toefield up the middle for 3, Leftwich sacked, punt...and it went downhill from there.
It was the first preseason game, and Miami threw a lot of blitzes at them, and Miami has a damn good defense, so I have lots of rationalization excuses. I, unlike most of the town, am not ready to throw Leftwich out with the bath water. Things had better get better soon, though. We still have plenty of preseason left, but this offense has to start showing something that looks like improvement. It wasn't all a Leftwich fiasco. The offensive line didn't look good. Jimmy Smith bounced footballs off his numbers in the flat. Everybody needs to get better, and soon.
Oh, everyone's praising the defense and how good they looked. It was Miami for God's sake. They don't know what they're doing yet for a quarterback, and they have Ricky 'Ganja-mon' Williams running the ball. If the defense didn't stuff Miami, I'd be worried. As it is, they did what they were supposed to do. No more, no less.
Yeah, the Jaguars won the game, but it was on the strength of the second and third string and one punt runback. Nothing the first string offense did looked remotely good. Gotta hand it to the rookies though. Matt Jones and Chad Owens will make the offense better...eventually. Granted they weren't working against Miami's first string defense, but they made plays.
So we look to the next preseason game, and expect that they learn from their mistakes. That shouldn't be too hard. They now have a film room full of them.
The first team offense looked awful. We are supposed to be seeing a new vertical passing game, more excitement and more points. Byron Leftwich is supposed to be maturing into the superstar everyone said he'd be. Well, the first series of downs went Toefield up the middle for 3, Toefield up the middle for 3, Leftwich sacked, punt...and it went downhill from there.
It was the first preseason game, and Miami threw a lot of blitzes at them, and Miami has a damn good defense, so I have lots of rationalization excuses. I, unlike most of the town, am not ready to throw Leftwich out with the bath water. Things had better get better soon, though. We still have plenty of preseason left, but this offense has to start showing something that looks like improvement. It wasn't all a Leftwich fiasco. The offensive line didn't look good. Jimmy Smith bounced footballs off his numbers in the flat. Everybody needs to get better, and soon.
Oh, everyone's praising the defense and how good they looked. It was Miami for God's sake. They don't know what they're doing yet for a quarterback, and they have Ricky 'Ganja-mon' Williams running the ball. If the defense didn't stuff Miami, I'd be worried. As it is, they did what they were supposed to do. No more, no less.
Yeah, the Jaguars won the game, but it was on the strength of the second and third string and one punt runback. Nothing the first string offense did looked remotely good. Gotta hand it to the rookies though. Matt Jones and Chad Owens will make the offense better...eventually. Granted they weren't working against Miami's first string defense, but they made plays.
So we look to the next preseason game, and expect that they learn from their mistakes. That shouldn't be too hard. They now have a film room full of them.
John put this out here at 7:30 AM
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