I want to take this time to thank Wayne and Delores Weaver for bringing us the Jacksonville Jaguars. Thank you for all your contributions to the community and to all the different charities. From someone who grew up in Jacksonville and moved to Atlanta in 1991 and return in 2003 to a totally different town, I want to thank you for bringing Jacksonville into the 21st century. Thank you for bringing the Super Bowl to this city. It doesn't matter what anyone says, it was a success. Please enjoy your retirement. But please don't forget all the fans who have supported this organization rain or shine or 90 degree heat. There are many of us who "get it".We are and continue to be .....Jaguars.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Unusual homework needed for Jaguars success
Everybody knows the usual things a team should do to win: have a good defense, have a good offense, have a good special teams, have a good coach and coaching staff, and have a loud and loyal fan base.
I submit to you all the seemingly unusual homework the Jaguars need to complete to win.
1. Please allow the team to haze Blaine Gabbert. Why would you abandon a preseason ritual like that? What no one wants to say I will say. They did not haze Blaine Gabbert because Jack Del Rio didn't want Blaine to get hurt emotionally or physically because he knew he was going to have him starting soon. So you ask, what kind of hazing are we talking about? Shaving Gabbert's head or make them sing a ridiculous song to everyone on the team during a preseason dinner. Not hazing him has set him apart from the other players and they all know he'll get "special" treatment.
2. Which brings me to my next point. Gabbert needs to cut his hair. It's too long. He needs to focus on football not his hair. He's always playing with it. ICK. He's not a girl for crying out loud. If I saw him asleep somewhere, I would put his hair in pig tails and put some lip gloss on him. CUT HIS HAIR. Whether Gabbert likes it or not he's a man in the NFL now and unless he's gonna dred it up, he needs to cut it.
3. I am personally taking donations for this one. I am getting money together to get a 50 gallon drum of pine sap sent to Everbank Stadium . It's uses are: to the Gloves, to the front of the Jerseys, and to the anterior Chest Pads. Why? Because I am tired of dropped passes and balls that hit the pads bouncing out of the hands. Also, when you tip a ball on defense there would be no doubt because it would stick to the tip of your glove (AHEM, Browns game).
4. I believe that for the Quarterback, the Receivers, and the Tight Ends to be on the same page, they need to have slumber parties, freeze each others undies, get pedicures together, get couples massages and go shopping together. If they are going to look like a bunch of girls on the field they should act like them off the field. Hey. I love them. But they need to mesh. They need to know what the other one is thinking and anticipate what the other one will do next. All joking aside, they need to spend more time together.They have lost this because of change in quarterback with short notice and dumb lockout that lasted too long. Oh, and one of those rules that changed with the new CBA: The players get one fewer practice per week. That spells disaster to a team with a rookie quarterback, short off season, crazy free agency, and an offense that already needed a long time to gel, mesh, or whatever. I guess whoever said "Practice makes perfect" didn't know what they were talking about, right JDR (insert eye roll)? Do something together off field for success on field. The players don't HAVE to, but if they needed to do that to win, would they?
To the average person, I'm sure all of this is ridiculous. I realize that fact. However, when your team keeps losing you have to have a unique perspective to keep from wearing a brown bag over your head to the next game. I would never do that, but there are some crazies out there who would.
Side note: Is there some sort of class needed to be attended by coaches to learn the whole clock management thing? I have several I need to sign up: JDR, Dirk Koetter, Jimbo Fisher, Jimbo Fisher ( yeah I put him in 2x because he's the head coach AND offensive coordinator for FSU), and of course Les Miles.
MDK in the HOUSE
I submit to you all the seemingly unusual homework the Jaguars need to complete to win.
1. Please allow the team to haze Blaine Gabbert. Why would you abandon a preseason ritual like that? What no one wants to say I will say. They did not haze Blaine Gabbert because Jack Del Rio didn't want Blaine to get hurt emotionally or physically because he knew he was going to have him starting soon. So you ask, what kind of hazing are we talking about? Shaving Gabbert's head or make them sing a ridiculous song to everyone on the team during a preseason dinner. Not hazing him has set him apart from the other players and they all know he'll get "special" treatment.
2. Which brings me to my next point. Gabbert needs to cut his hair. It's too long. He needs to focus on football not his hair. He's always playing with it. ICK. He's not a girl for crying out loud. If I saw him asleep somewhere, I would put his hair in pig tails and put some lip gloss on him. CUT HIS HAIR. Whether Gabbert likes it or not he's a man in the NFL now and unless he's gonna dred it up, he needs to cut it.
3. I am personally taking donations for this one. I am getting money together to get a 50 gallon drum of pine sap sent to Everbank Stadium . It's uses are: to the Gloves, to the front of the Jerseys, and to the anterior Chest Pads. Why? Because I am tired of dropped passes and balls that hit the pads bouncing out of the hands. Also, when you tip a ball on defense there would be no doubt because it would stick to the tip of your glove (AHEM, Browns game).
4. I believe that for the Quarterback, the Receivers, and the Tight Ends to be on the same page, they need to have slumber parties, freeze each others undies, get pedicures together, get couples massages and go shopping together. If they are going to look like a bunch of girls on the field they should act like them off the field. Hey. I love them. But they need to mesh. They need to know what the other one is thinking and anticipate what the other one will do next. All joking aside, they need to spend more time together.They have lost this because of change in quarterback with short notice and dumb lockout that lasted too long. Oh, and one of those rules that changed with the new CBA: The players get one fewer practice per week. That spells disaster to a team with a rookie quarterback, short off season, crazy free agency, and an offense that already needed a long time to gel, mesh, or whatever. I guess whoever said "Practice makes perfect" didn't know what they were talking about, right JDR (insert eye roll)? Do something together off field for success on field. The players don't HAVE to, but if they needed to do that to win, would they?
To the average person, I'm sure all of this is ridiculous. I realize that fact. However, when your team keeps losing you have to have a unique perspective to keep from wearing a brown bag over your head to the next game. I would never do that, but there are some crazies out there who would.
Side note: Is there some sort of class needed to be attended by coaches to learn the whole clock management thing? I have several I need to sign up: JDR, Dirk Koetter, Jimbo Fisher, Jimbo Fisher ( yeah I put him in 2x because he's the head coach AND offensive coordinator for FSU), and of course Les Miles.
MDK in the HOUSE
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Mark Stoops: Let me help you to the bus...
I am apologizing now for my vehemence. It was a particularly stressful 4th quarter:
Mark Stoops. I've had about enough of you in your short tenure at FSU. For several reasons, going in chronological order, you and your brother having a love fest at the end of both Oklahoma vs. FSU games. Your brother even tells you "I love you". After he beats the daylights out of you. How does that feel? From a fan's perspective, let me just tell you, we hate it. I don't care if your brother loves you or not. I WANT TO BEAT OKLAHOMA and every other team out there. That's why I hate these in-family rivalries. I'd call it something else but I'm DESPERATELY trying to keep it clean.
Are you telling me Mark Stoops that you can't keep these penalties down to a minimum? Or is this your idea of a minimum? Clemson, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, all riddled with penalties. Are you teaching this guys to block or just hold, or just "personal foul" and hope no one sees?
Now I beg you to listen for the first 23 seconds of this Billy Dean country song below:
http://youtu.be/77oUfGrX-Zo
In an attempt to plead my case to Mark Stoops, I change the words of the song with the words below.
"Gonna hold who needs holdin', block who needs blockin', face mask those who need face maskin' though it means an extra 15 yards, personal foul who needs foulin', fight what needs fightin', and hope players don't get thrown out the game."
Are you telling me you can't keep Virginia (I mean come on it's freakin' Virginia) from scoring in the 4th quarter? That was a defensive abomination. You need to get a hold of yourself.
Jimbo, let me share with you a few words from the former coach of the Miami Hurricanes, Jimmy Johnson. When asked about Bobby Bowden, on a piece done about Bowden's coaching career and the wide right-wide left scenario, Jimmy Johnson says if Bowden was so great he would have already beat me and he wouldn't need just a field goal in the last seconds of a game to do it. Guess what Jimbo? Same goes for you (Virginia? really?). And by the way, you might want to rethink some of those passing plays in the 4th quarter.
Next week is the FSU vs. Florida game. I really hope Mark Stoops can start to get his act together. It would be terribly embarrassing to lose to a crappy Gator team. Jimbo, your #RD (real deal) status is in serious jeopardy. You HAVE to beat Florida, especially if I actually go to Gainesville for this game. I hate Gainesville.
ACC. Please regain control of the pop warner refs you put out there to call college football games. You should be ashamed. You should want to get it right with FSU after all of the gaffes that have been committed this season.
It's nights like these when I reminisce about the old games. I guess this one wasn't so different.
MDK in the House
Mark Stoops. I've had about enough of you in your short tenure at FSU. For several reasons, going in chronological order, you and your brother having a love fest at the end of both Oklahoma vs. FSU games. Your brother even tells you "I love you". After he beats the daylights out of you. How does that feel? From a fan's perspective, let me just tell you, we hate it. I don't care if your brother loves you or not. I WANT TO BEAT OKLAHOMA and every other team out there. That's why I hate these in-family rivalries. I'd call it something else but I'm DESPERATELY trying to keep it clean.
Are you telling me Mark Stoops that you can't keep these penalties down to a minimum? Or is this your idea of a minimum? Clemson, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, all riddled with penalties. Are you teaching this guys to block or just hold, or just "personal foul" and hope no one sees?
Now I beg you to listen for the first 23 seconds of this Billy Dean country song below:
http://youtu.be/77oUfGrX-Zo
In an attempt to plead my case to Mark Stoops, I change the words of the song with the words below.
"Gonna hold who needs holdin', block who needs blockin', face mask those who need face maskin' though it means an extra 15 yards, personal foul who needs foulin', fight what needs fightin', and hope players don't get thrown out the game."
Are you telling me you can't keep Virginia (I mean come on it's freakin' Virginia) from scoring in the 4th quarter? That was a defensive abomination. You need to get a hold of yourself.
Jimbo, let me share with you a few words from the former coach of the Miami Hurricanes, Jimmy Johnson. When asked about Bobby Bowden, on a piece done about Bowden's coaching career and the wide right-wide left scenario, Jimmy Johnson says if Bowden was so great he would have already beat me and he wouldn't need just a field goal in the last seconds of a game to do it. Guess what Jimbo? Same goes for you (Virginia? really?). And by the way, you might want to rethink some of those passing plays in the 4th quarter.
Next week is the FSU vs. Florida game. I really hope Mark Stoops can start to get his act together. It would be terribly embarrassing to lose to a crappy Gator team. Jimbo, your #RD (real deal) status is in serious jeopardy. You HAVE to beat Florida, especially if I actually go to Gainesville for this game. I hate Gainesville.
ACC. Please regain control of the pop warner refs you put out there to call college football games. You should be ashamed. You should want to get it right with FSU after all of the gaffes that have been committed this season.
It's nights like these when I reminisce about the old games. I guess this one wasn't so different.
MDK in the House
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