Jaguars looking to save season, coach with victory in London

The Jaguars, London’s adopted hometown team, finally settled on a steady arrival time after years of experimenting.

As they take the flight across the Atlantic Ocean for their annual game at Wembley Stadium in London, England, they’re taking some injury concerns along. Tight end Julius Thomas has five TDs in three games vs. Indy. “But after practice, we kind of got the blood moving, I actually feel good right now”. “You think of Jim Brown, you think of one of the best if not the very best to play that position”. Wembley Stadium, Waller said, can host only two or three games a year, so other venues must be explored and tried out. Off to an 0-3 start for the third time in four years and their coach on the hot seat, the Indianapolis Colts’ Week 4 foes are in desperate need of a victory. The Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles are the first teams to hit their bye week. No one could possibly believe the game will continue to grow domestically the way it has over the past couple of decades, but if things do flatten out here and they grow overseas, then the league’s business continues to churn and the owners keep making the money they’ve been making. All that’s left is to heed the call the legendary late owner of the Raiders Al Davis used to make to his team: “Just win, baby!”

The hope is that Good and/or Reitz will be able to play Sunday, which would be a huge boost to their offensive line. “It’s a new challenge and a new week”, Beachum said.

The game figures to match two of the better young quarterbacks in the league in Jacksonville’s Blake Bortles and Indianapolis’ Andrew Luck, although so far this season is redefining the term young at quarterback. Good missed last week’s game against San Diego. “There’s nothing there that jumps out right now”, Olson said. Fifty! Fifty! We talked about that. A lot of that has been on us.

“I don’t think it’s a big deal”, he said.

Not helping has been the unavailability of running back Chris Ivory, who has been limited to 12 carries for 14 yards this season. The team’s travel and practice itinerary is the same as it was a year ago, and on Saturday, when the Jaguars convene for their final walkthrough, Bradley is planning on once again giving a speech about the tradition and history of Wembley Stadium.

“I wouldn’t say it’s routine yet, but you know, we have done it enough so players that have been here know what to expect”, Bradley said. We play it one year at a time and see how it builds. However, DE Jared Odrick and TE Ben Koyack are out.

Tickets are still available on StubHub from £55 for Sunday’s game. “But that doesn’t mean for a second that we’ve lost the confidence as an offense or lost who we are and what we believe we should do”.

The Jaguars have run it 32 times on first-and-10, not counting a kneel-down and scrambles by Blake Bortles, and they’ve gained 72 yards, a 2.25-yard average. As it is, the price of the United Kingdom media rights for the National Football League has already doubled since the New York Giants beat the Miami Dolphins at Wembley in 2007, and Waller said they will be more valuable when they come up for bid again. The opportunities are there.

If he answered that now, it would be to ask “why?” when things are working just fine as they are.

“He’s easy to work with”. So there are no surprises there, and the real intrigue comes with the questionable guys. Ramsey says he’s always been this way.