the spin begins

Oh, the Jaguars can still be a playoff team with a decimated offensive line in the first week of the season - NOT! Well, maybe, but it'll take a whole lot of luck and stuff to fall their way.

OK, maybe that's a glass half empty view, but did these people watch the game Sunday? We have no starting guards. Our starting center is still about four weeks from playing, due to injury. We make our living running between the tackles....where guards play. We're going to be pulling in guys off the street to replace the injured. There are reasons they were on the street and not in NFL uniforms at the beginning of the season.

I realize only one guy, Vince Manuwai, is definitely out for the season. We might get Mo Williams back at some point. The fact remains though, we have to play games between now and then, and an offensive line that needs to work as one unit to be effective is going to be porous when two of the guys have never worked with the others, and are basically roster cuts from other teams. Our running game is going to suck. David Garrard is going to spend some time on the ground. Spin that any way you like, and it still comes up ugly.

Buffalo is coming to town this weekend, and their defense is pretty good. Indianapolis is next on the schedule, and we know how good they are. Teams don't start the season 0-3 and make the playoffs. I'm not saying it's a lost cause. It's possible that we pull those games out, and I'll be hanging on that in my teal colored glases, but the reality isn't all that good. I'll go, and pull for my guys, and I'll hope we win. Until we get some kind of protection up front that can give Garrard time and open holes for a running game though, my expectation level won't be all that high.