squirrely shit going on in the Jaguar house

Byron Leftwich has announced that David Garrard will be the Jaguar starting quarterback on Sunday. Jack Del Rio didn't say it. Dan Edwards, the PR guy made no announcement. Byron Leftwich did.

Now I have all sorts of questions. The first one is, did Byron lose the starting job? My personal opinion is Byron is the better pure quarterback, but I did expect to see him take a quantum leap this year. That hasn't happened, but the year is far from over. I would say, if it doesn't happen by the end of December, it's time to look at alternatives, but the guy needs to be able to show he's improving. The company line will be he's still injured, but he's saying that's not the case and that he's ready to go.

The other part of this is that, all of a sudden, Byron's become the team spokesperson. This kind of news should come from someone in management. The coach is an obvious outlet...not the recently benched quarterback. It makes for all kinds of speculation about how the news was given to him and how he's taking it and ultimately...it might be a character issue. Is this someone who was told to be the media outlet (a doubtful possibility) or is this someone throwing an ego tantrum....or is it a man seeing his job threatened?

Whatever it is...it's become the full blown quarterback controversey that everyone in the front office has been saying it isn't.