Many times Jaguars fans complain about the lack of coverage this team gets.  Often, these claims are met with eye rolls from people on the board.

 

However, when I see things like this, I wonder if there is something to the whole media bias thing.

 

This from last Tuesday's MMQB After Further Review from Peter King and the editor...

 

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Editor’s note: This column had planned to be about some of the teams not covered extensively in the Monday column. My apologies. News happened. I will have Tampa Bay, Tennessee and Jacksonville dispatches in my Monday column next week.

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/05/andy-dalto...s-mailbag/

 

Okay...smaller market teams suffered the sports media equivalent of getting bumped from a flight.

 

But, as King said...news happened.  No intent to slight anyone.  We'll see next Monday.

 

So next Monday (Today), here is his MMQB column...

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/11/johnny-man...-sam-rams/

 

What is in it about Jacksonville?

 

Well...there's this comment on a tweet of the week from Hays Carlyon in page 4...

 

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The Jags beat man for the Florida Times Union, on Jacksonville GM Dave Caldwell’s trade of the seemingly hapless Blaine Gabbert to the 49ers in the off-season for a sixth-round draft pick.

Gabbert’s 49er debut at Baltimore Thursday night: 3 of 11, 20 yards, no touchdowns, one pick, a passer rating of 1.7.

Yes: 1.7.

 

And there's this from page 5...

 

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5. I think I learned one thing on this trip that’s yet another reason why so many football people are against a permanent team in London. Last year, when the Jaguars were in London, GM David Caldwell was looking at the waiver wire and saw a linebacker, Martez Wilson, he liked on waivers. It was Thursday of a game week. Caldwell, number one, didn’t want to cut a player on his roster in London and unceremoniously ship him home from Europe before the game. Number two, he didn’t know what kind of game-shape or mental shape with the Jags’ playbook Wilson would be if he arrived, let’s say, on Friday evening in London. So Caldwell passed on the waiver claim (and because the Jags had waiver priority with the worst record in football, they would have gotten Wilson). Wilson was then claimed by the Raiders. Wasted chance. So I wonder how often a competitive issue like that would come into play if a London team was trying to do business in competition with the other NFL teams on this side of the Atlantic.

 

But that was it.

 

No training camp dispatch as promised.

 

No mention of Bortles' strong performance.

 

To be fair, Tampa really didn't get any mention at all.

 

You get a full page dedicated to the horribly overhyped and overcovered Johnny Dysfunction.

 

A full page devoted to the over saturated Michael Sam story.

 

But once again the coverage he promised was virtually nonexistent.

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