Jacksonville fail to impress in final preseason game

The Jacksonville Jaguars closed out the preseason with their third loss as they fell to the Atlanta Falcons 24-14 Thursday night.  Blake Bortles, the Jags  3rd overall pick in the 2014 Draft did well enough, going 4-6 for 86 yards and a touchdown.  The team will have to get down to the mandatory 53 players by August 30th.

The Jaguars open the regular season against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday September 7th at 1pm.  Plenty of great seats are still available, so get yours now and support your Jacksonville Jaguars.

Fans and Pundits debate Bortles, Henne

Even though he was the 3rd overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, Chad Henne is still slotted as the starter for the 2014 Jaguars, not Blake Bortles.  Henne was picked up in the middle of the season when Blane Gibbert went down. Gibbert has since been traded to the San Francisco 49er’s and the coaching staff want to give Henne the opportunity to play a full season.  GM Dave Caldwell told ESPN’s Britt McHenry the same on his talk show.

“To be honest with you, probably 2015.  We’d like to give Chad this whole year and go with Chad this year.”

The Jaguars open the preseason against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on August 7th.  Plenty of great seats and cheap tickets remain!

Jags looking for a fresh start

When Shad Kahn took over as the new owner of your Jacksonville Jaguars, he promptly declared that he would bring a winning tradition to the franchise that has been sorely missing.  He first went out and hired offensive genius Mike Mularkey who turned Atlanta’s Matt Ryan into one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks.  Although Mularkey was not so successful as his last stint as a head coach (with Buffalo 2006-2008 where his record was 14-18.

Mularkey was asked if he thought he would prove successful in Jacksonville.

“When you start sobering up, how does it feel?” Khan said. “That’s the key issue. After the binge, how do you feel? … A wonderful thing about football is everybody looks great until the ball is snapped. Once the ball is snapped, results speak for themselves and we know in September how good a job he is doing preparing, strategies, (assembling) the staff. It will all come out. By that time, the buzz, the splash, is going to be history.”

Front office and coaching changes aside, the team will also have to deal with the sophomore season of Blaine Gilbert who passed for over 2200 yards last season with 12 touchdowns but was less than stellar.

Get your tickets to the new incarnation of the Jacksonville Jaguars!