Day 1 Jaguars fan since 1993. In the early years, Jaguars football was about winning and making big time plays and always being the underdog and finding a way to win. The 1990’s with Jimmy Smith and them boys like Keenan McCardell and Tony Brackens and Mark Brunell, Fred Taylor, Reggie Barlow, Boselli, Clyde Simmons. We were one of the elite football teams in the league. In 1997 we started playing MNF and SNF. The stadium was always rockin. We were making playoffs and winning division crowns and making legit runs for a Super Bowl. 

Fast forward to now and it feels like this franchise is back where it should be. It feels stable like it felt back in the 90’s. 

We don’t have a HOF WR like a Smith on the team but guys like Kirk and ZJones are sufficient and have helped turn this thing around. After Smith retired we turned to guys like Matt Jones, Reggie, Troy Williamson, Sims-Walker, John Broussard. Then Blackmon came along but was gone too quick. We had to rely on MJD bc Garrard was an average QB. Heck at one point I was wanting Trent Edwards and guys like Cody Kessler to be our starting QB.

Then along comes guys Hurns and Allen and Ramsey, Fournette, but they left after a couple few years.

These past couple years just seems like everything is back where it should be as a fan. No more blackout talk and moving the team. No more homecoming games and being a black eye for the NFL with fans wearing clown mask. It’s been a long road man. I’m very thankful we drafted Lawrence. His rookie season was rough but this dude has become the leader of this team. 

The culture is right and we’re on pace to win the division in back to back years which has only happened 1 other time in franchise history which was 1998 and 1999. That’s also the team made the playoffs in back to back seasons. 

As a diehard it was rough the last 20 years, other than 2005, 2007 and 2017. It feels like the glory days are back, where we have a chance to win any ball game. The game plans on both sides of the football have been solid. 

This is random but this is how I see it. 

1990’s Jaguars vs todays Jaguars. Brunell-Lawrence, Taylor-Etienne, Smith and McCardell-Kirk and Jones, Barlow-Agnew, Hollis-McManus, Brackens-Allen, Beasley-Campbell, Fernando Bryant-Williams, Darius-Cisco, Cooke-Barker, Pederson-Coughlin. Rob Meier-Smoot, Dave Widell-Luke Fortner, Searcy-Harrison, Schwartz-Oluokun. Pederson-Coughlin. 

*this isn’t a direct comparison of players production or positions but kinda like a blue print for a solid team. There’s not a Jimmy Smith, Fred Taylor, or Tony Boselli on this team but the team is producing as a whole on a championship level and it’s been a long time coming that we can just sit back and enjoy this thing for a little while.

Go Jaguars.

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