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Maurice Jones-Drew Furious About Jaguars' Offensive Playcalling

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Big Cat Country: Time for MJD, Jaguars to Step Up

This 2009 season is starting to look a lot like the 2008 season for the Jaguars — and that’s not good. But there’s still a lot of time for the Jaguars to turn things around:

When the Jaguars play the Rams in front of 40,000 people on Sunday, we will see what this team is really made of. Is this team going to quit on their season, say it was rebuilding all along, or will they come together and make a run at being 5-3.

I sincerely hope and believe that it is going to be the latter, because I don’t think this town could stand to see another dose of the 2008 Jaguars. I believe, however, because I’m looking past the Seattle game that left such a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth.

There may be a lot of “ifs” involved, but now is the time for the Jaguars to get the job done:

If Jack Del Rio wants to make sure his job description is still “Jacksonville Jaguars head coach” next year, we will be 5-3 after Week 9. With late season showdowns with Indy, New England, Miami, and New York, and San Francisco on the schedule, the time to rack up wins is now. Losing easy games has been an unfortunate hall mark of his time in Jacksonville, and it has to stop now or we will be looking for a new head coach.

If this team wants to regain the good will it lost last week, it will want to be 5-3.

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Maurice Jones-Drew Furious About Jaguars' Offensive Playcalling

A 41-0 loss means a lot of things. But to the Jaguars' Maurice Jones-Drew, who was on the wrong end of that score against Seattle on Sunday, it means bad offensive play-calling. And he wants to let everyone know this is how he feels:

In a 15-minute session with reporters Wednesday, Jones-Drew ripped several aspects of his team. He even called himself the second-highest paid "decoy" in the league, behind New Orleans running back Reggie Bush.

Jones-Drew acknowledged that his bitterness stemmed from the offence's struggles and the humbling shutout in Seattle.

"I don't like to be embarrassed, so I do get upset about it," Jones-Drew said. "You lead by actions. You can only say so much. You can talk to somebody until you're blue in the face and they're not going to do anything. But if you go out there and show why you're upset and you try to do something to correct your mistakes, then they'll pay attention."

Jones-Drew, who has been one of the best all-around running backs in the NFL this season, was held to just 34 yards on 12 carries against Seattle.

"We have to figure out a way to be consistent," Jones-Drew said. "The running game is like chess. The running game is your pawns. They don't really mean that much in the beginning, but at the end, they surround the king and it's check mate. That's what the running game is.

"We're not going to break 30-yard runs every play. You're going to get two, three yards a pop. You might get a negative run, but (defences are) going to respect the run game and that's going to open up the pass game and open up the run game later on, where you're going to be breaking 10-, 15-yard chunks."

Luckily for the Jags, the offense has a great chance to strut its stuff: their next three games are against winless St. Louis, Tennessee and Kansas City.

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