Jacksonville Jaguars: Last in SI power rankings
By David Levin
No matter how hard this team tries, it looks the Jacksonville Jaguars are at the bottom of another team ranking by Sports Illustrated.
You get the feeling Sports Illustrated may not have a lot of faith in the Jacksonville Jaguars. After Conor Orr declared the team had the worst quarterback situation in the NFL. Jenny Vrentas didn’t show the team much love either as she left the young franchise in the basement of the league in her most recent power rankings.
"“It’s hard to believe the Jaguars were in the AFC championship game just two years ago. Trading DE Calais Campbell, CB A.J. Bouye and QB Nick Foles completed the restart, but head coach Doug Marrone and GM David Caldwell remain in place, for now,” she writes."
Not much information to go by, actually. No real reason was given as to what the team did to deserve such a dubious honor. This is a team that has hovered near the bottom or at the bottom of other publications in recent weeks. The roster depletion of key veterans has set the tone for a rebuild, but with said veterans on the roster, the Jacksonville Jaguars won a total of 11 games over a two-year span.
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Campbell is now in Baltimore while Bouye is in Denver. Foles was sent to Chicago. Jacksonville will open the season with Gardner Minshew as the starter under center.
The restart Vrentas speaks of has begun and figures to be part of the continuation of future preparation by both Marrone and Caldwell for 2020 and beyond. For those of you guessing at home, The Houston Texans were ranked 16th and the Indianapolis Colts were 15th. The Tennessee Titans were seventh, overall.
This is a team that is now one of the youngest in the league which also may test Marrone’s will in trying to build a winner. It was the same kind of philosophy Caldwell and then head coach Gus Bradley tried to make work before he was fired and Marrone was brought in to replace him.
This could be the last season for both of them as team owner Shad Khan called for more improvements to the organization and more victories on the field moving forward. There is no set mark that Marrone much reach as the team’s head coach in 2020.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have added linebacker Joe Schobert from Cleveland to help bolster the defense in free agency as well as Rodney Gunter, Cassius Marsh, and Al Woods and Rashaan Melvin.
Jacksonville also signed tight end Tyler Eifert to offer Minshew another target in the passing game. The former Cincinnati Bengals player is familiar with Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden and his west coast offense.
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