Good Bye Byron

It's official. The Jaguars released Byron.

I've never been much of a Byron Leftwich fan. While I give him credit for being able to stand in the pocket and take a hit and get right back up. I just didn't think that he was ever that sharp with his passes and showed very little touch.

Too many times it appeared that he had to wind up for even short screen passes. While he kept his interceptions down, he appeared to be content with throwing a ball away vs. being able to find the open receiver. And when you rifle the ball into your receiver, it makes it difficult to hang on to the ball especially when you are about to take a big hit. Not that I think that the receivers that he has to work with has been very good. Just about all of them seem to have stone hands.

Long term, I don't think David Garrard will be the man to lead Jacksonville to a championship. What really disappoints me is that JAX didn't even try to improve themselves during the draft or through free agency. Brady Quinn appears to be the real deal (against 3rd stringers). He will probably be starting by week 4 up in Cleveland.

There are some rumor talks about Mark Brunell coming back to the Jaguars. While I think we could use a good veteran on the bench to help coach David and Quinn Gray mature, I would rather look more long term.

Well good luck to all of us Jaguar fans. I think the offense is improved with Garrard behind center as long as he doesn't try to do too much. It cost us last year. He has looked so much better this year. Hopefully he is maturing much the same way that we had hoped that Byron would.

Until next time...