Quote:Personally, I don't agree with that. I mean, the best offensive talent that he had (other than Jimmy Smith for a brief time) was very heavy run oriented: Taylor, MJD, Garrard.

I recall Del Rio going for it on 4th downs quite a lot. Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember it that way. He went for those 4th down plays frequently. So, that's pretty aggressive, I think.

 

Excellent comments.

 

JDR played to his team's strengths.

 

 For the Jaguars,  it was very unfortunate that Byron Leftwich couldn't stay relatively healthy often enough and the team was unable to find the type of WR that could have eventually replaced Jimmy Smith as a true # 1 WR.     The Jaguars had some good possession WR's that were excellent blockers.    Ernest Wilford and Reggie Williams come to mind.    But they didn't have the type of WR that could truly consistently stretch opposing Defenses vertically,    once Jimmy Smith was no longer an elite WR.

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