It looks like Jaguars WR Matt Jones is going to eventually get cut. Considering his intangibles and Jacksonville’s anemic passing game over the years, why wouldn’t we take a chance on the big, speedy project? Before you scoff, remember Eddie Kennison, a bust before he donned the Red and Gold. I think Jones would be a good fit for Chan Gailey and the Chiefs‘ ball control offense. I’m not saying he’s T.O. or even D-Bo by any means, but he still has tremendous upside potential (or TUP to NBA fans, you’ll hear that phrase a ton with the NBA Draft approaching).
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From Jacksonville.com:
It’s still early, but the way receivers Troy Williamson and Mike Walker have been performing for the Jaguars this spring, the often-injured Matt Jones is going to need an eye-opening training camp to make the roster. Jones’ toughest hurdle is he won’t get the same benefit of doubt from the coaching staff that he received in the past.
From Arkansas Sports 360 (about the Cowboys looking at him):
But here are some numbers that would certainly justify taking a long look at Jones: 6-6, 238 pounds, 25 years old, 4.37 40-yard dash and a 39.5-inch vertical leap.
Thoughts on us potentially looking at Matt Jones?
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im not saying you have to havea better offense than a defese, your right all those teams had great offenses and defenses and thier defenses stepped it up but none of those teams won becasue thier of thier defense their defense put them in the position to score and the offense got the points they all scored more points than thier opponent and thats what wins games
oh and another point we won playoffgames becasue yes defense and scoring points, but we never got to the big one with Marty becasue our defense kept us in the game but our offense, couldn’t score enough points, let me say this one more time Offense Wins championships Defense helps
I’m pretty sure offense and defense are both equally important. To pretend one is more important than the other is daft. They complete each other, and a Super Bowl winning team will have good offense AND defense.
You cannot win consistently on only one or the other.
Ian,
Actually I think you make my point which is that a good defense will help its offense more than a good offense will help its defense – especially down the stretch. That is why it is preferable to have a good defense over a good offense if you must choose between the two. Obviously you want both to be good. You can talk powerful offense all day long but it is overwhelmingly the case that good offensive teams do not win championships until/unless their defenses are good.
DD thats exactly the point I was expressing. Never said that you could have a shitty offense. You actually have to have all three to win it all I just think the defense is a tad bit more important.
Exactly. It is intrinsic to the nature and rules of the NFL that a good defense will provide more opportunities and create more situations for their offense to be more effective/successful. The reverse is simply not possible.
I think you’re wrong, Double D.
Remember our last playoff game against the Colts? Remember how well our defense did for the first half or so of the game?
Do you know why we stopped being able to keep points off the board? It’s because our defense got tired. Our defense got tired because our offense was such a piece of shit we didn’t complete any passes to a wide receiver the whole game, and didn’t make a first down until well into the 3rd quarter. Our defense was on the field almost the entire time.
The offense does help the defense out, and it’s by giving them a break. If your offense goes 3-and-out on a constant basis, your defense is simply being worked to much and your players on that side of the ball wear out. And that is exactly what happened to us in the playoffs a couple years ago.
They don’t help eachother in the same way, but they do help eachother equally. It’s a balancing act.
Good point to SeanB. I think he was saying that just in another way. You have to be able to do both.
A good offense can also leave your team playing a ton of minutes too. Thats what happened under Dick V. So again I think you hit it right that its a balancing act.
In the NFL because of salary cap and 53-man roster you have to decide which you want to be a little stronger. All I am saying is that I would prefer to invest a tad bit more $$$ in my defense rather than offense. I know other people will see it differently that is just my personal preference.
Yeah I get that. And no team is ever really gonna be equally efficient on O and D. Every team usually has either an offensive or defensive personality.
Living in the South since 4th grade and being a Bama fan, I’m a huge fan of running the football and playing tough defense. So a great defensive team is fine by me.
But I did love watching Vermeil’s Flying Circus.
Sean B,
I don’t think we are not really disagreeing other than maybe on the point of the help going equally both ways. I still maintain that a good defense has more ways to its offense than does a good offense in helping its defense. To me, offensive time of possession only provides an indirect benefit to a team’s defense – in other words, the D still has to go out, make the stop and do their own part in undermining the opposing team’s clock game. Even though field position is king, time of possession is also a critical factore because as you correctly point out with the Indy example, good defenses will eventually break down late in the game against good offenses if their own offense fails to show up. Nevertheless, my view is that such situtations reflect more on the shortcomings of the offense than they does on the quality of the defense because, as I said above, bad offenses will make good defense seem worse than they actually are(statistically at least).
Anyway, I absolutely agree that balance is desirable and that, as a fan, a good offense is a wonderful thing to behold – but never at the expense of going without a good defense.
Sentence #2 should have said “more ways to help its offense”