Quote:Luke is our best defensive player - he's fine. Three of our DL are out but it's just precautionary at this point. They won't be on the injury report for week one. We won't be missing anyone on D.


Olsen is our best receiver....but I know what you mean. KB is #3 in the "offensive players we can't lose" behind Cam and Olsen. We will never be a pass team and we weren't going to be this year. We run the ball. If you look at last year we had a different starting OLine every week until week 11. Then we got JStew and Tolbert back. Only Seattle rushed for more than us. Plus you've got to account for Cam's runs.


The Cam is immature thing is some straight ESPN agenda stuff. That couldn't be further from the truth. It's Cam's team and they all follow him. Cam didn't run down Josh Norman. Josh picked him and ran it back. Cam gave chase to stop him from getting to the endzone (which is dumb for a QB to do in practice but I imagine it was more instinctual). Josh threw a stiff arm to get the fight going.

 

Everything you're saying is why I'm hopeful of the Jaguars chance at winning. The running game is important, but it's been explosive plays to the outside that have been killing the defense so far this preseason. If it's all about the TEs and running backs then I think the defense will be able to keep things in front of them and play the bend but don't break in the red zone style. We'll see. As for Cam's maturity, it might be ESPN stuff, but it goes with the rest of his history. He was notoriously immature in college, he does dumb things like end zone dances when his team is getting creamed, and trying to run down a DB in a drill to get into a fight is just dumb. I've never heard of Bortles doing anything like that at all. Add all of that to the fact that Cam hasn't lit up the league from a statistical point except throwing for a lot of yards as a rookie (and his yardage each year has actually declined while his INTs have stayed steady) and it's hard to see him as even in the second tier of QBs with the true elite guys leaving him in the dust.

 

If the Jaguars can't win the game in week 1 it won't be a good sign for the coaches here, because they've had long enough to get the team up to a point where it can win a home game against a team that plays tough defense and runs the ball well.

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