Archive for February, 2010

The 10th pick is ours. Zoltan and I believe all eyes on Rolando McClain!

I remember a year ago there were a few centers in free agency, among them was Jeff Saturday from the Colts and our Brad Meester, a Jaguar.  I was happy when Brad signed his contract extension. Brad got a 4 year $10 million contract. Jeff Saturday got $7.5 million signing bonus and and a $12 million contract.  Jeff Saturday went on to have an incredible year, Brad Meester didn’t. If you believe ProFootballFocus, and I tend to believe them, Brad graded out as one of the worst centers in the league.  As I mentioned before, they grade every play of every game. Each [...]

We are just 2 weeks away from the start of free agency, so it is a perfect time for this discussion I have been pondering. Well we all know that Jaguars GM Gene Smith has a “Draft first!” mentality which is good when we saw how he executed his 1st draft. But in today’s NFL you simply can’t ignore free agency. To be fair so far Gene’s free agents put more to the table then the average Shack Harris era FA’s (not to mention the Porter-Florence-Lemon trifecta; which cost around 25 million $ for Wayne Weaver for almost nothing…) But he said the [...]

[Editor Note: Zoltan continues his analysis of Defensive Ends available in the coming draft. To date we have ruled out Jason Pierre-Paul and Derrick Morgan. Today he looks at Carlos Dunlap. Maybe Carlos is the answer the Jaguars seek? Let's find out]  Junior defensive end coming out from Florida. Sounds familiar? No; I’m not talking about Derrick Harvey, I’m talking about another pass rusher with huge question marks. In fact Carlos Dunlap is the ultimate enigma here. He can be the best pass rusher of this draft class, or he can be the next Jarvis Moss/Vernon Gholtson not to mention our [...]

Earlier we looked at Uche Nwaneri and was surprised to find at right guard his pass blocking improved incredibly well. He went from a bottom of the league guy to knocking on the door of top ten pass blocking guard. He was credited with ONE QB sack in 2009. Given how many time David was on his back, that was impressive. Uche struggles in run blocking but not in pass blocking!  So let’s visit the left side and see how Vince Manuwai is performing. Since we are talking about pass blocking, let’s take a look at his 2007 – 2009 performance. [...]

While Zoltan looked into the defensive line and college draft prospects, I have been looking into the offensive line. I know a lot of Jaguar fans don’t believe this, but the improvement of Eugene Monroe was very impressive. I believe him to be close to Pro Bowl caliber play and have documented it.  No matter, I think we are fine at left tackle and Monroe will provide both good pass protection and surprisingly good run blocking. The other line player that is beginning to impress is Uche Nwaneri. Uche played left guard in 2008 and right guard in 2009.  The [...]

[Editor note: Zoltan continues his series on Defensive Line help. So far we have not found any top ten pick eligible candidates. Mel Kiper likes Jason Pierre-Paul for the Jaguars. I would rather trust Zoltan. Let's see what he thinks]  In the first part of this series I already showed how desperate the situation of the Jaguars pass rush is looking. In the first part I showed the secure candidate for many is Derrick Morgan however I expressed my doubts on the Georgia Tech DE.  Now let’s see a not so secret candidate for the job, USF junior DE Jason Pierre Paul. He [...]

[Editor Note: Zoltan and I believe Gene will stock the lines in this years draft, although maybe not with the first round choice.  We like Eric Berry, Joe Haden and Rolando McClain for that choice, but they might be gone.  Zoltan looked at Brian Price and together we are not sold on him being a top ten pick.  Today he looks at Derrick Morgan and again I am not sold on him. Let's see how Zoltan feels]      Is Derrick Morgan worthy of a Jaguar first round  #10th-11th selection? We looked at the possibly best available player candidates at the first round draft selection, Joe [...]

I really like a power running game.  Nothing is more fun to watch, to me, than to have the lead late in the game and then run the ball without fear.  Play after play, the snap, the offensive line fires, the wall pushes forward and the running back gets 4 yards.  That to me is real “in your face” football. That is the football the Jaguars are going to return to.  Greg Jones, Maurice, Rashed Jennings, these guys can run and punish people.  An added benefit to being able to run is the play action pass.  The linebackers respect the run, Marcedes slips deep [...]

In case you didn’t know, Uche Nwaneri is entertaining the participants of the Jaguars blog site.  He attempts to explain football and give them his perspective.  I like that, I think it is wonderful. The problem I have is I don’t think everything is accurate.  Consider this quote:   i had one MA the whole game, which turned out to seal the win for mia, i went to the wrong man on our QB draw, which was goin to be wide open for dave, and the guy i was spose to block ended up sacking dave. it happens.  Two things bother [...]