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We begin with a simple quiz:
How many of these players are still active on the jaguars roster? I’ll give you a minute to go through it….
- Braden Albert
- Toby Gerhart
- Julius Thomas
- Luke Joeckel
- Maurice Jones-Drew
- Chris Clemons
- Marcus Stroud
- Marquis Cooper
- Brandon Marshall
- Josh Scobee
- Blaine Gabbert
- Ziggy Hood
- Dan Connolly
- Zach Miller
- Mike Sims-Walker
- Roman Reigns
If you guessed that half of them are with the team you’d be wrong. If you guessed that more than four of them were still with the team, you’d be wrong. If you guessed any of them were active, you’d be wrong.
Hello folks, welcome to Brocky’s expert preview of the Jacksonville Jaguars. A team I know next to nothing about, and with some help, you can know next to nothing about them too!
The jaguars joined the league in 1995, forever confusing the occasional football viewer who simply had never heard of the team. The team had surprisingly early success, going to the afc championship game twice in their first 4 years. Coached by Tom Coughlin, The 1999 team would go a franchise best 14-2, only to become the only team to get beat 3 times in a season by Jeff Fisher.
Years passed, after Coughlin’s firing after the 2002 season, and after a relatively average tenure by coach Jack Del Rio, The Jaguars were sold to Shahid Khan, the man with the sweetest moustache in the NFL, who for all the world looks like a middle eastern Ron Jeremy
and the Jags have had 5 coaches in 7 years, and the record to go along with it. How quickly fortunes change. I personally blame the teal tongue in the logo, that shit is weird:
Why do I bring up this abridged history? Well, it’s just the bizarre part of the jaguars: they always seemed destined to be a consistently below average team even when they were supposedly good. Their players are forgettable, their accomplishments lost to time. For the next 20 years, the jaguars already seem to have 2 games already on their schedule: 1 london game, 1 thursday night game, and absolutely no playoff games.
You look at the NFL’s other bad teams, they at least have a reputation for being bad. The browns are forever cursed. The bills are the unluckiest sons of bitches on the planet. The Lions will never wash themselves of the stink of wasting great players careers. What do the jaguars have? Other teams are enduring, eventually becoming loveable losers, but the jaguars don’t even have that. They’re like an alien species that you forget about if you look away.
This lack of sustenance reflected in the team’s fantasy stats: the jags were particularly awful last year: no rusher with over 500 yards, blake bortles somehow only threw 23 tds with 3900 passing yards, and the one supposed bright spot, Allen Robinson, barely made it in the top 40 among receivers in yardage (37th), and barely limped into the top 25 with TDs.
In the 2017 NFL draft, the jaguars took LSU running back Leonard Fournette with the 4th overall pick, in a scene I’m just assuming was similar to This cinematic masterpiece right here . Fournette would naturally get injured during camp. While it may be nothing more than a mild foot injury, there were already questions about his durability, and this won’t help that at all.
As for the rest of the team, well, i’m going to modify an old governor’s speech, perhaps you’ve heard it: 3-13 now, 3-13 tomorrow, 3-13 forever!
I hope you have enjoyed my relatively lackluster effort for a relatively lackluster franchise. I snuck secret reference into this write up, whoever finds it wins a prize!
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Okay, so folks here’s the secret reference, In Hindsight, I’ll admit it was way too fucking nerdy for a sports site, but I had made the exact joke before, to some positive response, the secret reference was:
they’re like an alien species that you forget about if you look away
this is a shout out the doctor who villainous aliens called the silence, who’s gimmick is that they can’t be remembered, so they subtly manipulate events around them with sinister intentions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0e1NhF-uG4
The joke I was going for is that the Jags were so forgettable, that if you’re not looking directly at them, you can’t remember them.
This was the prize: a brillaint photoshop done on MS paint:
Hey, at least I was close in that I knew the reference was in that particular phrase. Never seen Doctor Who, so there was no way I was getting that one. I’ll take a half credit. Better than the Jags will do this year…
The secret reference is to Predator and their camouflaged trademark shimmer while at the same time acknowledging Allen Robinson’s dreads.
What’s my prize?!?
wrong, good hustle though
Dammit! What’s the answer?
I’ll post it above in a second
Roman Reigns.
If my prize is Jaguars tickets, I’m going to be very upset.
Nope sorry, Reigns was an practice squad player, not the secret.
People forget that most analysts believed the Jags were the only team capable of beating the P*ts in their 18-1 season and once the Jags lost, sports media was planning the parade.
The secret reference was: Ron Jeremy
IM me for info on where to send the prize money
Nope, Ron was far too blatant to be secret.
Trust me, it’s nerdy
Wow you’re right. Upon closer review, he’s really not secret at all. Huh.
As a jet-setting millionaire playboy, I really have no chance at getting the “nerdy” clue.
This is going to be the year of the Justin Blackmon comeback IMO.
“Did you know that Zima is making a comeback?!”
–Justin Blackmon
MIA 7 – 62 JAX
Biggest postseason margin of victory, last JAX playoff win. You made me smile, Brocko.
Wait: there’s aSilky Garrard win in PIT afterwards. I think.
The entire AFC South fucking sucks.
Not to be confused with the powahaus NFC West.
Hey! The West sends a team to the playoffs damn near every season!
Gotta say, for all the pain in the assery that this post caused this morning, it was allllllll worth it. Good hustle, Brocky.
Thanks!!
slaps self in the ass, HARD
When I first tried to read the article, I only got a 404 error page. I thought it was a great joke, until I realized this wasn’t the Houston preview.(Go Oilers!!!)
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/stealing jokes
//made the same comment in the open thread
//Frist
It’s weird, I always assumed that Gus Bradley was the source of the Jaguars’ first round pick injury curse. But with him being in Los Angeles, and Fournette getting injured, I’m not so sure anymore. Except that the Chargers’ first pick is injured too. So maybe Bradley is responsible for half of the curse, and the other half is something else?
The other half is being in Jacksonville?
Should we blame Florida Man for their tribulations?
Please clap.
Playing STD Roulette?
“The other half is in Jacksonville? Shit, I had no idea it would fly that far.”
– Jason Pierre-Paul