Snake Bit

Well that was fun. Thanks for coming. See you next year. Maurice Jones-Drew, the only Jacksonville Jaguar who seems to understand that scoring touchdowns is a good thing in football, got banged up in the last pre-season game. His lower leg was bruised on a play he shouldn’t have gotten the ball, in a game he shouldn’t have been in. They’re saying it isn’t a major injury, and I hope they’re right/telling the truth, but this is the Jags’ M.O. As soon as it looks like they have a true breakout star in the making he gets hurt. The Jags rolled the dice on MJD and let Fred Taylor go. So they don’t have a safety net any more, which is fine, but damn! the season hasn’t even started and the one thing that had more than a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping the Jags out of last place is banged up. I understand that they made some really stupid horrible ridiculous short sighted unfortunate moves last year that have pushed them into rebuilding mode, and I understand that since we’re in the second smallest media market with the lowest median income in the NFL rebuilding isn’t going to be as easy as it would be for a large market team, but give me something. Tory Holt is three years past his prime. The Jags have decided to start two rookie offensive tackles, and if they can’t run the ball, which they won’t be able to if MJD isn’t 100%, David Garrard is going to die a slow, brutal, excruciating death. Even if MJD is good to go, the Jags are going to be lucky to be .500 at the end of the year. If he’s not, they’ll be lucky to win three games. It looks like there’s a very good chance all eight home games are going to be blacked out, which might start a domino effect of lost interest and revenue, and lead the Jaguars out of Jacksonville and to some place like Oklahoma City. That’s going to suck.