Welcome to the first regular season Official Game Day Thread of 2022. Today at 1pm Eastern the Jacksonville Jaguars begin their season with a visit to play the Washington Redskins football team commanders at Fedex Field in Landover, Maryland. New head coach Doug Pederson brings an established, winning culture of professionalism to a team that was saddled last season with the worst head coach in NFL history. Pederson brings a creative offensive style and will call his own plays this year. The expectation of many is that 2nd year man Trevor Lawrence will make a big jump because of his presence on the sideline and the addition of offensive weapons Christian Kirk, Zay Jones, and Evan Engram. The running backs will look to get on track as James Robinson and Travis ETN both return from injured reserve and rookie Snoop Connor joins the room. On the defensive side Josh Allen will finally have some help as number 1 overall pick Travon Walker and number 27 overall pick Devon Lloyd join the Jaguars LB corps. Along with free agent acquisitions Foley Fatukasi and Foyesade Oluokun and the elevation of Andre Cisco from the bench to the field the middle of the Jaguars defense already looks to be significantly better than last year's crew. The commies will start Carson Wentz under center and will be without starting safety Kamren Curl and Brian Robinson, the touted rookie running back who was shot in an attempted car jacking a week ago. The commies are 3 point favorites but many of the experts are picking the Jags in an upset.

Game time weather is 80 degrees and partly cloudy. The game will be shown in the local market on Fox30.

Thoughts, comments, observations, ruminations, sniping, and plenty of snark to follow throughout the night and morning.

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