I watched the game on TV, but I couldn't pinpoint who was playing O-Line on which plays. The Jacksonville announcers weren't any help. It appeared the interior running game improved in later in the 2nd quarter and after. I'm wondering if that coincided with the insertion of Donald Thomas.

I couldn't really tell who played better, but I was NOT impressed by the interior of our line early on. Grove was pushed back a few times, and the penetration by Jacksonville was disconcerting.

All i need to say is DThomas better play because murphy is a huge dropoff....I agree grove was a disapointment. But its only the first pre season game. The line will gel better when we play a couple more games.

Jacksonville has a pretty good defense.

Yes, Jax has some pretty stout tackles but you can't really tell much in just a few series with starters.

They still need some work to play as a team though.

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Well i belive that our running game play's where pretty obvious to the defense, and alot of blitz's came in and stuffed us early. What i also saw was our o-line using solid pass protection, but just being out muscled by the defense. I am worried! Too much money out there to not have at least a 4.5 yards per attempt per game!

MiamiThunder Wrote:
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> Too much money out there to not have at least a
> 4.5 yards per attempt per game!

And the oppossite team has too much money out there on defense as well to allow the 4.5 yard per..............Make some sense will ya.........
" STUNNER "

So SAM SAM your saying that the jaguars defense has over 150 mill in salary in its front 4?



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There are 5 players on that 150 mil offensive line in Miami.

Henderson 34 mil
Meier 15 mil
Hayward 25 mil
Harvey 33 mil

LB Daryl Smith 25 mil

That's 132 million in the front 3, backup RDE and LB for 5 players.

So yeah...not much difference. Not that you can judge a player by his salary.



and that does not include Quentin Groves but he did not get a big contract yet

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Ok 107 mill front four! Alot of money, but not as much as our offense's center piece!

MiamiThunder Wrote:
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> So SAM SAM your saying that the jaguars defense
> has over 150 mill in salary in its front 4?


What i meant was that these are all pro players and they are paid in the millions rage. Some more some less.

An offense goes out to score on a defense and vise versa. It doesn't matter what they get paid.

I totaly agree with that, but my point is that CLEARLY Sporano wanted our o-line to dominate in the run, which from the first pre season game realy looked bad in the run department!

It won't get any easier against Carolina on Saturday.

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MiamiThunder Wrote:
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> I totaly agree with that, but my point is that
> CLEARLY Sporano wanted our o-line to dominate in
> the run,


Every coach wants their OL to dominate running the football.


which from the first pre season game
> realy looked bad in the run department!

Dont worry we will get it going next saturday. Its only one pre season game. No time to panic. Smilley and thomas are going back from injury and we have a new center.

There are 3 more games to improve on.