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I still think with a stonewall line courtesy of drafting Joeckel, Gabbert still can't be written off from being a serviceable QB. Needs to have a campaign of 3,500 passing yards with more TD's than INT. Jaguars have been a toothache kinda team against the Steelers. Lead 11-10 in regular season h2h series and how can any Steeler fan forget that bitter loss in the play-offs at Heinz only a few years ago (2007 post season). Also Fred Taylor.. 234 yards during the 2000 season. (Last season @ Three Rivers).
Goodell talking about the Jags playing 2 games a season in London.
Is this a part of his plans for global conquest to move a team to London and make it the Jags, be interesting to see a team in London ahead of a team in LA.
Is this a part of his plans for global conquest to move a team to London and make it the Jags, be interesting to see a team in London ahead of a team in LA.
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Goodell can talk about "this"
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Report: Khan in talks to buy Fulham
Jaguars owner Shad Khan is apparently taking his commitment to the London market seriously.
According to the Daily Mail, Khan is in talks to purchase the English Premier League soccer club Fulham, a transaction which could cost him more than $200 million.
The report says Khan could complete the deal by the end of this week for the soccer team, which would make him the third NFL owner to own a team in England’s top division (along with the Glazers of Tampa Bay, who own Manchester United, and Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who owns Arsenal).
The Jaguars have already worked to create a presence in London, playing a game a year at Wembley Stadium for the next four seasons.
If the sale goes through, they can set up shop at Craven Cottage (the quaint stadium with the Michael Jackson statue out front — it’s complicated) while they’re there.
By the way, did we mention that NBCSN is the new home of the Premier League on American television? We should do that now. And you should watch.
Jaguars owner Shad Khan is apparently taking his commitment to the London market seriously.
According to the Daily Mail, Khan is in talks to purchase the English Premier League soccer club Fulham, a transaction which could cost him more than $200 million.
The report says Khan could complete the deal by the end of this week for the soccer team, which would make him the third NFL owner to own a team in England’s top division (along with the Glazers of Tampa Bay, who own Manchester United, and Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who owns Arsenal).
The Jaguars have already worked to create a presence in London, playing a game a year at Wembley Stadium for the next four seasons.
If the sale goes through, they can set up shop at Craven Cottage (the quaint stadium with the Michael Jackson statue out front — it’s complicated) while they’re there.
By the way, did we mention that NBCSN is the new home of the Premier League on American television? We should do that now. And you should watch.
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Wouldn't surprise. But really it's a shame IF the NFL's new definition of 'expansion' = team to relocate abroad (outside North America). Until leagues (a team) outside the USA is established, these re-location ideas of an existing US franchise is tacky IMHO.
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Jags owner buys English soccer club Fulham
Jaguars owner Shad Khan is happy to take his football team to London once a year.
Now he has a football team in London every day.
Khan confirmed Friday that he had purchased the English soccer club Fulham, with the deal to be announced tomorrow.
“I do not view myself so much as the owner of Fulham, but a custodian of the club on behalf of its fans,” he said in a statement, via Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union. “Fulham is the perfect club at the perfect time for me.”
In many respects, Fulham is kind of the same team he already owns. While Fulham resides in London, it’s not one of the biggest clubs in the Premier League (12th in the 20-team league last year, with a 25,000-seat stadium). And while they have a few good players on the roster, they’re not close to challenging for a title soon (Dimitar Berbatov is the Maurice Jones-Drew of the Premier League, or something).
And while people will speculate about the Jaguars becoming full-time residents, that’s not necessarily any more likely to happen now than it would be for the Rams to move since Stan Kroenke owns Arsenal or the Buccaneers by virtue of the Glazer family owning Manchester United.
It’s simply a bargain-rate entry into a league which keeps getting richer and richer.
Jaguars owner Shad Khan is happy to take his football team to London once a year.
Now he has a football team in London every day.
Khan confirmed Friday that he had purchased the English soccer club Fulham, with the deal to be announced tomorrow.
“I do not view myself so much as the owner of Fulham, but a custodian of the club on behalf of its fans,” he said in a statement, via Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union. “Fulham is the perfect club at the perfect time for me.”
In many respects, Fulham is kind of the same team he already owns. While Fulham resides in London, it’s not one of the biggest clubs in the Premier League (12th in the 20-team league last year, with a 25,000-seat stadium). And while they have a few good players on the roster, they’re not close to challenging for a title soon (Dimitar Berbatov is the Maurice Jones-Drew of the Premier League, or something).
And while people will speculate about the Jaguars becoming full-time residents, that’s not necessarily any more likely to happen now than it would be for the Rams to move since Stan Kroenke owns Arsenal or the Buccaneers by virtue of the Glazer family owning Manchester United.
It’s simply a bargain-rate entry into a league which keeps getting richer and richer.
Another move toward expanion? Ground sharing Craven Cottage?
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Going into next week Jags will have 3 rookies starting in the secondary.
Josh Evans
Jonathon Cyprien
Demetrius Mcray
The other starter is Will Blackmon a cast off from Seattle
Could get ugly
Josh Evans
Jonathon Cyprien
Demetrius Mcray
The other starter is Will Blackmon a cast off from Seattle
Could get ugly
First pick, here we come!
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Indeed we are by far the worst team in the league this season.
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Jaguars might be worst team in history
Don't say the Jacksonville Jaguars are starting from scratch, because that's an insult to a team of the same name that actually did start from scratch.
Chances are, those 1995 Jaguars would beat this bunch, which is quite possibly the worst team in NFL history.
Jacksonville has lost it first seven games by an average of nearly 21 points — double-figure margins in all of them, and a differential of epic proportions if it holds up over a full season.
According to STATS LLC, the only team to fare worse was something known as a Chi-Pit Cards-Steelers, a 1944 amalgamation of two franchises that didn't enough players to field teams of their own because of World War II. They went 0-10, losing by an average margin of 22 points.
The Jaguars can't blame a war for their problems.
They've done this all by themselves.
Bad trades. Horrendous draft picks. Ill-advised signings.
Throw it together, and you're left with a franchise that doesn't even stack up to the expansion team I covered back in '95.
Those Jaguars, as expected, weren't very good. But they went 4-12, a record this group would be thrilled to achieve, and established the framework for a surprising run to the AFC championship game the very next year. That team's quarterback was a young Mark Brunell, who would go on to a long career in the league. These Jags have Blaine Gabbert, who looks like something out of "The Walking Dead."
There's no chance of Jacksonville making the playoffs this year or next. Team officials have made it clear this is merely the start of a total makeover that will take a minimum of three seasons to complete.
Rest assured, Gabbert will not be part of that plan. The 10th overall pick in the 2011 draft has already proven to be a colossal bust, his one touchdown pass this season countered by seven interceptions. Too bad he can't count the TDs the other teams scores; three of his picks have been returned to the Jacksonville end zone.
Journeyman Chad Henne isn't much better, but he'll start Sunday in London when the Jaguars take what is likely to be their eighth straight whipping at the hands of defending NFC champion San Francisco.
As if all that eavesdropping wasn't bad enough, now we're about to impose the Jaguars on one of our European allies.
Yikes.
"Obviously, if you're a Jaguars fan, you want to do better," team owner Shad Khan told The Florida Times-Union in Britain this week. "But we know the process we started, which is pretty much starting from the ground up, cleaning house and doing something we probably should have started earlier."
Rubbing salt in the wounds, the Web site PredictionMachine.com recently ran a series of simulated games between the current and expansion Jaguars, which found the '95 squad won more than 60 percent of the time by an average score of 19-14.
At least that's more competitive than the present-day Jaguars have been this season. They've led for a grand total of 22 minutes, 14 seconds — not even one half of one game, and never by more than seven points.
Where did it all go wrong?
The root of the Jaguars' problems can be traced to their last trip to the playoffs in 2007, when they got an inflated view of how good they really were. After winning a wild-card game at Pittsburgh and giving unbeaten New England a run for its money in the divisional round, Jacksonville handed quarterback David Garrard the largest contract in franchise history and traded four picks to draft defensive end Derrick Harvey at No. 8 overall.
Harvey lasted only three seasons in Jacksonville, finishing with eight career sacks, and no one else picked by Jaguars was still around even two years later. Then came another ill-fated move in 2011, when they traded up to grab Gabbert and missed the obvious warning signs: several quarterback-desperate teams had already passed on him.
Now, Jacksonville will have to use another high pick on a QB.
At least they won't have to trade up this time.
"We've got to get more talent," Khan said. "But I definitely feel we're moving in the right direction. Status quo, maintaining what we had, was not an option."
Maybe it will all work out. In the meantime, here are a few suggestions for the people of Jacksonville to make lemonade out of this lemon of a team.
— When the Jaguars score a touchdown at home, take a shot. Don't worry if you're a teetotaler — the Jags have yet to reach the end zone in three games on their own field. Their leading scorer at EverBank Field is Josh Scobee with three field goals. Their second-leading scorer at home is backup linebacker J.T. Thomas, who blocked a punt that rolled out of the end zone for a safety in the season opener.
— Join the picket line that shows up outside the stadium every Monday at 3:16 p.m. (in reference to the famous Bible verse), calling for the Jaguars to sign former Florida star Tim Tebow. There's no chance of the team heeding the request (or, even if they did, Tebow being of any help at all), but at least you can get in some regular exercise.
— Pretend you live in Los Angeles, a city often mentioned as a possible landing spot should the Jaguars look for a more profitable home than sleepy Jacksonville. Instead of fretting over your pathetic team on Sundays, go to the beach or have a cookout. If you insist on watching the NFL, pick a non-Jaguars game (remember, it's like you don't have a team of your own).
Who knows? Maybe the Jaguars will actually move to L.A. one of these days.
It never hurts to dream.
Don't say the Jacksonville Jaguars are starting from scratch, because that's an insult to a team of the same name that actually did start from scratch.
Chances are, those 1995 Jaguars would beat this bunch, which is quite possibly the worst team in NFL history.
Jacksonville has lost it first seven games by an average of nearly 21 points — double-figure margins in all of them, and a differential of epic proportions if it holds up over a full season.
According to STATS LLC, the only team to fare worse was something known as a Chi-Pit Cards-Steelers, a 1944 amalgamation of two franchises that didn't enough players to field teams of their own because of World War II. They went 0-10, losing by an average margin of 22 points.
The Jaguars can't blame a war for their problems.
They've done this all by themselves.
Bad trades. Horrendous draft picks. Ill-advised signings.
Throw it together, and you're left with a franchise that doesn't even stack up to the expansion team I covered back in '95.
Those Jaguars, as expected, weren't very good. But they went 4-12, a record this group would be thrilled to achieve, and established the framework for a surprising run to the AFC championship game the very next year. That team's quarterback was a young Mark Brunell, who would go on to a long career in the league. These Jags have Blaine Gabbert, who looks like something out of "The Walking Dead."
There's no chance of Jacksonville making the playoffs this year or next. Team officials have made it clear this is merely the start of a total makeover that will take a minimum of three seasons to complete.
Rest assured, Gabbert will not be part of that plan. The 10th overall pick in the 2011 draft has already proven to be a colossal bust, his one touchdown pass this season countered by seven interceptions. Too bad he can't count the TDs the other teams scores; three of his picks have been returned to the Jacksonville end zone.
Journeyman Chad Henne isn't much better, but he'll start Sunday in London when the Jaguars take what is likely to be their eighth straight whipping at the hands of defending NFC champion San Francisco.
As if all that eavesdropping wasn't bad enough, now we're about to impose the Jaguars on one of our European allies.
Yikes.
"Obviously, if you're a Jaguars fan, you want to do better," team owner Shad Khan told The Florida Times-Union in Britain this week. "But we know the process we started, which is pretty much starting from the ground up, cleaning house and doing something we probably should have started earlier."
Rubbing salt in the wounds, the Web site PredictionMachine.com recently ran a series of simulated games between the current and expansion Jaguars, which found the '95 squad won more than 60 percent of the time by an average score of 19-14.
At least that's more competitive than the present-day Jaguars have been this season. They've led for a grand total of 22 minutes, 14 seconds — not even one half of one game, and never by more than seven points.
Where did it all go wrong?
The root of the Jaguars' problems can be traced to their last trip to the playoffs in 2007, when they got an inflated view of how good they really were. After winning a wild-card game at Pittsburgh and giving unbeaten New England a run for its money in the divisional round, Jacksonville handed quarterback David Garrard the largest contract in franchise history and traded four picks to draft defensive end Derrick Harvey at No. 8 overall.
Harvey lasted only three seasons in Jacksonville, finishing with eight career sacks, and no one else picked by Jaguars was still around even two years later. Then came another ill-fated move in 2011, when they traded up to grab Gabbert and missed the obvious warning signs: several quarterback-desperate teams had already passed on him.
Now, Jacksonville will have to use another high pick on a QB.
At least they won't have to trade up this time.
"We've got to get more talent," Khan said. "But I definitely feel we're moving in the right direction. Status quo, maintaining what we had, was not an option."
Maybe it will all work out. In the meantime, here are a few suggestions for the people of Jacksonville to make lemonade out of this lemon of a team.
— When the Jaguars score a touchdown at home, take a shot. Don't worry if you're a teetotaler — the Jags have yet to reach the end zone in three games on their own field. Their leading scorer at EverBank Field is Josh Scobee with three field goals. Their second-leading scorer at home is backup linebacker J.T. Thomas, who blocked a punt that rolled out of the end zone for a safety in the season opener.
— Join the picket line that shows up outside the stadium every Monday at 3:16 p.m. (in reference to the famous Bible verse), calling for the Jaguars to sign former Florida star Tim Tebow. There's no chance of the team heeding the request (or, even if they did, Tebow being of any help at all), but at least you can get in some regular exercise.
— Pretend you live in Los Angeles, a city often mentioned as a possible landing spot should the Jaguars look for a more profitable home than sleepy Jacksonville. Instead of fretting over your pathetic team on Sundays, go to the beach or have a cookout. If you insist on watching the NFL, pick a non-Jaguars game (remember, it's like you don't have a team of your own).
Who knows? Maybe the Jaguars will actually move to L.A. one of these days.
It never hurts to dream.
arakaan
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Seriously every draft pick this year should be
1st pick a ******* decent QB
picks 2 until the end on offensive linemen
Deadset we need to stay on the field will the ball first and foremost. Give the defense a bloody break every now and again.
1st pick a ******* decent QB
picks 2 until the end on offensive linemen
Deadset we need to stay on the field will the ball first and foremost. Give the defense a bloody break every now and again.
Legitimate question here, referring to the Jags as "touchdown town" is that meant to be ironic? caus ein the current state of affairs that just has to be the furtherest from the truth, and seems tongue in cheek,
is it based on something?
is it based on something?
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Originally, when the franchise was established, it was nicknamed 'touchdown town'. Marketing. Lame, yes.
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Was at the game yesterday - was a complete joke. The first quarter and half was like a Madden game where you have turned the difficulty up about 2 notches too high - you go 3 and out every posession while the opposition scores a TD on every drive.
Worst team I have ever seen.
Worst team I have ever seen.
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One has to wonder if the firing of Jack Del Rio (69-73) in 9 seasons was the catalyst to having this team really hit the skids.. This team needs Stability. Sure they were a middle of the road team for the two seasons before the Jags tardy 3-7 start before he got the flick but looking back, there were a wholesome bunch of similar teams struggling >>> Fins were 2-7, Colts 0-10, Browns 2-7, Eagles & 'Skins both 3-6, 'Sota 2-7, Black Cats & Rams both 2-7!! I recall a wk 7 2011 MNF game vs Baltimore (4-1) which the NFL media was swarming with rumours that Del Rio was a dead man walking but you know what?? The Jags pulled thru to stun the Ravens 12-7 to prove the players hadn't given up on Del Rio. The axe came after the 14-10 loss to the Browns, a week after the Jags had actually won another game (17-3) vs the winless Indy. The Jags swept the Colts that season along with a 41-14 pasting of the then 4-9 Buccs. Last season they brought in Mike Malarkey (formally a TE with 'Sota & with the 'Burgh) after serving as Falcons OC under Mike Smith, for 2 wins... they were involved in seven close games including three OT losses. Sure, 2-14 wasn't pretty but pulling the rug after one year is just asking for trouble as stability isn't generated with panic. Bringing in Seattle's DC, Gus Bradley, has so far been an underwhelming result. Ranked stone cold motherless last against the rush and 30th overall. What possessed Gus Bradley to leave? $$$ before a shot at a Seahawks SB run??
arakaan
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any doubt about a fluke win and losing pick 1 has just been removed.
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What makes it all so much worse....those god-awful unis and helmets. Design overkill. They look like Harlequins...and are playing like Harlequins.
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Ex-Jag Richard Collier is “on cloud nine” nearly six years after being paralyzed
It’s a slow Friday in the football world, which gives us a bit of time to catch up on some stories that don’t have to do with the draft or the coming season.
Vito Stellino wrote one of them in the Florida Times Union about former Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier. Collier’s NFL career came to an end after just nine games when he was paralyzed after being shot 14 times by a man who has since been sentenced to life in prison.
Collier went on to have part of one leg amputated as a result of the 2008 shooting, but told Stellino that he has forgiven the shooter while forging ahead with a fulfilling life that no longer includes football. Collier speaks against gun violence, runs a foundation called The Spirit Strong, rehabs diligently and plays father to twin sons he had with his wife earlier this month. It’s all part of a life that Collier says “keeps getting better” almost six years after his football career and much more were cruelly taken away from him.
“It was a bad situation, but no one can ever take away my joy. I am still smiling, just enjoying life,” Collier said. “It was hard at first, but I got around to smelling the roses. I take every day and appreciate it. I could have died. Somebody was looking over me. I don’t take it for granted. Life is great. No matter what the situation is, I’m on cloud nine. Everything I want, I have right in front of me.”
Collier remains hopeful that medical advances will help him make even more progress and we share that hope for him and anyone else in a similar position, but remains positive that everything will work out even if they don’t. After reading Stellino’s profile, it’s hard not to share that feeling.
It’s a slow Friday in the football world, which gives us a bit of time to catch up on some stories that don’t have to do with the draft or the coming season.
Vito Stellino wrote one of them in the Florida Times Union about former Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier. Collier’s NFL career came to an end after just nine games when he was paralyzed after being shot 14 times by a man who has since been sentenced to life in prison.
Collier went on to have part of one leg amputated as a result of the 2008 shooting, but told Stellino that he has forgiven the shooter while forging ahead with a fulfilling life that no longer includes football. Collier speaks against gun violence, runs a foundation called The Spirit Strong, rehabs diligently and plays father to twin sons he had with his wife earlier this month. It’s all part of a life that Collier says “keeps getting better” almost six years after his football career and much more were cruelly taken away from him.
“It was a bad situation, but no one can ever take away my joy. I am still smiling, just enjoying life,” Collier said. “It was hard at first, but I got around to smelling the roses. I take every day and appreciate it. I could have died. Somebody was looking over me. I don’t take it for granted. Life is great. No matter what the situation is, I’m on cloud nine. Everything I want, I have right in front of me.”
Collier remains hopeful that medical advances will help him make even more progress and we share that hope for him and anyone else in a similar position, but remains positive that everything will work out even if they don’t. After reading Stellino’s profile, it’s hard not to share that feeling.
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Jags unveil new video boards before crowd of more than 52,000
Posted by Mike Florio on July 27, 2014, 10:30 AM EDT
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Jacksonville ain’t Oxnard.
With the Cowboys struggling — and ultimately unable — to get 5,000 fans to show up for training camp in California, the Jaguars lured 52,961 to EverBank Field for the unveiling of video screens even larger than the Close Encounters mother ship that hovers over the surface where Jerry Jones’ team plays.
It wasn’t just about the video boards. Fulham F.C., the English soccer team owned by Jaguars owner Shad Khan, thumped D.C. United 3-0 in an exhibition match, followed by a free concert from Carrie Underwood.
But the real star of the night was the gigantic new screens, one at each end of the venue and both larger than a football field. (The picture accompanying this blurb shows an image that filled the prior video screen inside its much larger successor.)
It’s the latest one-up move in an era featuring NFL teams trying to outdo each other in the hopes of enticing fans to choose attendance in person over watching games at home. Eventually, look for the top of an entire stadium to be capped and wrapped with a 360-degree drive-in theater screen.
Other amenities that wouldn’t be practical in northern climates include the pools that have been installed at EverBank Field, giving fans an experience that definitely would be difficult to duplicate at home. Especially if they don’t have a pool.
Ultimately, the way to keep a stadium packed is to develop a team that contends for postseason berths on a consistent basis. Quietly, the Jaguars are working on that project, too.
Posted by Mike Florio on July 27, 2014, 10:30 AM EDT
Jacksonville ain’t Oxnard.
With the Cowboys struggling — and ultimately unable — to get 5,000 fans to show up for training camp in California, the Jaguars lured 52,961 to EverBank Field for the unveiling of video screens even larger than the Close Encounters mother ship that hovers over the surface where Jerry Jones’ team plays.
It wasn’t just about the video boards. Fulham F.C., the English soccer team owned by Jaguars owner Shad Khan, thumped D.C. United 3-0 in an exhibition match, followed by a free concert from Carrie Underwood.
But the real star of the night was the gigantic new screens, one at each end of the venue and both larger than a football field. (The picture accompanying this blurb shows an image that filled the prior video screen inside its much larger successor.)
It’s the latest one-up move in an era featuring NFL teams trying to outdo each other in the hopes of enticing fans to choose attendance in person over watching games at home. Eventually, look for the top of an entire stadium to be capped and wrapped with a 360-degree drive-in theater screen.
Other amenities that wouldn’t be practical in northern climates include the pools that have been installed at EverBank Field, giving fans an experience that definitely would be difficult to duplicate at home. Especially if they don’t have a pool.
Ultimately, the way to keep a stadium packed is to develop a team that contends for postseason berths on a consistent basis. Quietly, the Jaguars are working on that project, too.
Blake "Goanna" Bortles
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Jaguars are the new perpetual underdogs
Posted by Mike Florio on November 26, 2014, 2:20 PM EST
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When the Giants and former Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin head to Jacksonville this weekend, the home team will be on the wrong side of the point spread. Again.
Via OddShark.com, Jacksonville has been the underdog in 40 straight games. That’s two-and-a-half seasons of games.
And the Jags haven’t done well with those extra points. They’re 2-10-2 in the last 14 games against the spread, and they’re 2-8-1 as home underdogs in the last 11 games played in Jacksonville.
There’s a chance the streak is even longer than 40 games. Some had the Bengals as a one-point favorite over the Jaguars in Week Three of the 2012 season. If the Jags were the underdogs in a game they lost by 17, the streak is 44. The last time the Jags clearly were the favorite happened in Week 17 of the 2011 season, when they had a four-point edge over the Colts in the game that delivered Andrew Luck to Indy.
Posted by Mike Florio on November 26, 2014, 2:20 PM EST
When the Giants and former Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin head to Jacksonville this weekend, the home team will be on the wrong side of the point spread. Again.
Via OddShark.com, Jacksonville has been the underdog in 40 straight games. That’s two-and-a-half seasons of games.
And the Jags haven’t done well with those extra points. They’re 2-10-2 in the last 14 games against the spread, and they’re 2-8-1 as home underdogs in the last 11 games played in Jacksonville.
There’s a chance the streak is even longer than 40 games. Some had the Bengals as a one-point favorite over the Jaguars in Week Three of the 2012 season. If the Jags were the underdogs in a game they lost by 17, the streak is 44. The last time the Jags clearly were the favorite happened in Week 17 of the 2011 season, when they had a four-point edge over the Colts in the game that delivered Andrew Luck to Indy.
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John Oehser of the Jaguars' official website believes there's a "good chance" Justin Blackmon plays for Jacksonville in 2015.
Blackmon remains in voluntary rehab and is said to be "doing well." As long as he can stay on the straight and narrow, the belief is he'll be reinstated at some point in 2015. Blackmon was eligible to apply for reinstatement as early as last month. He's still just 25 (next month), but hasn't played since Week 8 of 2013. Cecil Shorts is scheduled for free agency in March. Blackmon could team up with Allen Robinson and Marqise Lee atop the depth chart next year.
Blackmon remains in voluntary rehab and is said to be "doing well." As long as he can stay on the straight and narrow, the belief is he'll be reinstated at some point in 2015. Blackmon was eligible to apply for reinstatement as early as last month. He's still just 25 (next month), but hasn't played since Week 8 of 2013. Cecil Shorts is scheduled for free agency in March. Blackmon could team up with Allen Robinson and Marqise Lee atop the depth chart next year.
