Five Things You Didn't Know About The Jaguars
- Maurice Jones-Drew tried his hand at acting before he decided on football. He played the ball that the thug holds up in The Big Lebowski. Shomer shabbos!
- Jamaal Fudge thanks Jesus every day that he wasn't drafted by the Packers.
- Matt Jones has been known to pout if he doesn't get the ball enough.
- Jack Del Rio is one of only two coaches who wears a suit on the sidelines twice a year. And Jack is the only coach who is going to spoil the whole thing by undoing the tie and loosening up the collar on national TV. If you're not going to wear the suit right, Jack, go back to the shitty corporate casual look.
- With all the Michael Vick stuff going on this past offseason, it was easy to overlook that four Jaguars got their names in the papers -- in one month. Charles Sharon was arrested for stealing a handgun, Gerald Sensabaugh was arrested on a weapons charge, Ahmad Carroll was charged for weapons and drugs, and a video was released of Khalif Barnes from a November arrest where he blasted Jacksonville for not respecting its athletes (among other things). All in March.
You know who will be quarterbacking the Jaguars on Sunday? Quinn Gray. Or Gray Quinn. I honestly don't know because they're both ridiculous names [I looked it up and it's Quinn Gray. I challenge you to find one other black guy named Quinn.]. Gray was miserable in relief of David Garrard and obviously has no touch to his ball at all. The Bucs will be able to stack the line to stop the run knowing that Gray is no threat to put the ball down the field.
The bad news for the Bucs is that the Jaguars have the third best rushing offense in the league. Fred Taylor and Jones-Drew are both excellent and are just now getting their due recognition. Derrick Brooks and Tanard Jackson are going to have to have big games to make the Jaguars go to the air and force quarterback mistakes. This also seems like the kind of offense that Jeremiah Trotter was built to take on. Don't be surprised to see him get in the game on defense.
Scoring opportunities against the Jaguars don't come easy. They also have the third best scoring defense in the league and one of the best cornerbacks in Rashean Mathis, so this may be another ball-control day. If they can just avoid the mistakes they made last week (and don't make any new ones... that part is important, too), the Bucs can win this one. Bucs by 6.
You know what there's not enough of on national TV? Two-foot long inflated rubber vaginas. Thanks, Jacksonville! And stay classy.