Quote:So we have one former quarterback telling us the Jaguars are leaving for London, and the other one telling us our quarterbacks are awful.

 

We expect a team with six consecutive non-winning seasons to take lots and lots of in-coming, but really?

 

Apparently, even a former Jaguars' starter doesn't have the insight necessary to make the appropriate diagnosis of what's what with Jaguars' quarterbacks.

 

If anybody should know not to harshly criticize an NFL quarterback, David Garrard should be one of those guys. He certainly should refrain from making generalized comments that will be taken out of context by those seizing upon anything they can to support their agenda.

 

Not surprising that Garrard doesn't have the ability to see circumspect. Good field vision is a must for an NFL signal-caller.

 

Jaguars' fans can attest to lots and lots of "wow!-what?" over the years from David.

 

Forget about Garrard, the quarterback. He threw plenty of interplanetary Sputnik-like non-scientific probes to nowhere. He ping ponged lots of footballs off receivers. He saw many of his passes become hook and ladders to the other guy. He took scores of sacks.

 

While his two swinging gate offensive tackles did their best to keep their own jerseys clean, David came out of piles more crumpled than before the pocket collapsed upon him, and, at best, spent non-neatly folded days under center before his spine gave way. 

 

Hey, I have always been a Garrard guy. I have always admired his ability to take what life hands him with total class. This has changed. It seems old number nine couldn't beat his critics, so he's joined them. That's fair enough.

 

The forward pass is predicated upon the ability to precisely time the throw to meet the receiver at a given spot on the turf. A solid, opposing defense knows this fact, perhaps better than even former starting quarterbacks do.

 

Three things are a constant with the forward pass; it's early, it's late, or right on time. There are three things that happen when you decide to throw the forward pass; it's incomplete, it's intercepted, or, thirdly, it's caught for a completion.

 

Most fans have absolutely no idea what it means for a quarterback to throw footballs with touch. It's the primary function of the quarterback not to just throw a football, but to make sure the football is caught. The great quarterbacks are those that can take everything in terms of how precise things are on any given day and make the necessary adjustments required for receivers to make the catch. 

 

For the receiver, his job is to remain on-time, on route, and make the catch. 

 

So we're going to learn our lesson about superior pass protection, or just keep drafting more quarterbacks like the quarterback is a Bic lighter?

 

I'll be in my hardened bunker....

 

IN-COMING!