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The Jacksonville Jaguars made four roster moves today, bringing the total number of players on the roster down to 80, which is the maximum teams are allowed to bring into training camp.

Gone are quarterback Cleo Lemon, offensive lineman Drew Miller, defensive end Mkristo Bruce and cornerback Weldon Brown. You can read more about the roster moves made today on the the team's webiste by clicking here.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have added a familiar face to their roster with the signing of safety Marlon McCree. McCree, who was a seventh round draft pick of the Jaguars in 2001, has spent time with Houston, Carolina, San Diego and Denver since being released by the Jaguars during the 2004 season. In addition to depth, McCree brings a veteran presence to the safety position, who can perhaps serve as a mentor to some of the younger players at the position. Read the full story on the team's wesite here.... Read more

According to The Florida Times-Union, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority will once again operate its stadium shuttle service for Jaguars home games during the 2009 season. This comes as good news to many fans who utilize this service on game day. It is an easy, cheap, and relatively quick way to get to and from Jaguars home games. You can read the entire article on The Florida Times-Union's website by clicking here.... Read more

Riding high off their playoff run the year before, the Jacksonville Jaguars headed into the 2008 season with high expectations. Fans and media alike were touting the Jaguars as a legitimate Super Bowl contender. From the outside looking in, it appears that the organization itself shared those same expectations. Trading up in the first round to select Derrick Harvey and throwing big money at Jerry Porter on the first day of free agency gives one the feeling that the Jaguars were of the belief they were only a player or two away from reaching the big game. By finishing the 2008 season with a 5-11 record, the Jaguars, as well as their fans, were dealt a cold, hard dose of reality. In hindsight, while a healthy Jaguars may have posted a slightly better record, it is clear that the expectations the majority of us had for the 2008 Jaguars were... Read more

The buzzword that has been coming from the Jacksonville Jaguars organization this offseason has been "character." Just about every move made by the team since the end of the 2008 season has been accompanied by the word "character." Releasing Jerry Porter and Drayton Florence just one year after signing them to lucrative free agent contracts? Those moves were made just as much for character reasons as they were for football reasons. Both players reportedly wreaked havoc on team chemistry in the locker room. Letting Reggie Williams walk in free agency? A big part of that decision was football related, but you can bet an equally large part was character related. Williams clearly has some character issues to work through, as evidenced by his multiple arrests this offseason. Cutting Matt Jones after his best season as a professional football player and who was arguably the best wide receiver on the Jaguars... Read more

The Jacksonville Jaguars held their mini-camp this weekend, giving coaches and fans alike their first look at the players who will make up the 2009 roster. Everyone was in attendance, including the free agent acquisitions and newly-drafted rookies - 90+ players in all hoping to impress the coaches and eventually earn a spot on the 2009 active roster. The bleachers were packed with fans excited to check out the new-look Jaguars during the blazing hot Saturday afternoon session I attended. Watching the players make their way from the locker room to the practice fields two things jumped out at me: the offensive line is enormous with the additions of Tra Thomas, Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton; and David Garrard has lost a lot of weight and looks more like a quarterback and less like a middle linebacker. I am not a coach or any other kind of football expert, so... Read more

Now that the Jacksonville Jaguars have had a mini-camp to take a look at the players they have, the team has made a few roster moves. The Florida Times-Union is reporting that the team has waived three players and added two to the roster. Click here to read the full story.... Read more

Drafting in the later rounds of the NFL Draft, a lot of teams are looking to acquire players who can provide depth, contribute on special teams, or be developmental players on the team's practice squad. In all reality, a good percentage of a team's late round selections usually find themselves cut from the roster before the end of their first training camp. However, when you are a team in rebuilding mode like the Jacksonville Jaguars, finding quality players who can come in and contribute right away is still a major point of focus in the later rounds. While finding the late round diamond in the rough is something every team hopes for, it is especially coveted when you are a team rebuilding with an eye on the future. After drafting Arizona's Mike Thomas in the fourth round, the Jaguars went with wide receiver once again in round five. By selecting... Read more

The Jacksonville Jaguars are holding their 2009 mini-camp this weekend, May 1-3. Mini-camp will be open to the public for the Friday afternoon session and both sessions on Saturday, giving fans a chance to get their first glimpse at the club's 2009 draft picks and free agent acquisitions. Click here for more information from the team's website.... Read more

After making what appeared to be good, solid, safe picks in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft on Saturday, the Jacksonville Jaguars got off to what seems to many fans a riskier start on Sunday. With the selections of Temple defensive tackle Terrance Knighton (6'3", 317 lbs.) and William and Mary cornerback Derek Cox (6'1", 188 lbs.), the third round of the Jaguars draft has become the most questioned and second-guessed with fans on sports talk radio and message boards around the city.  In making Knighton the team's highest-drafted defensive tackle since selecting John Henderson in the first round of the 2002 draft, the Jaguars are hoping to have finally filled the void left on the defensive line by the departure of Marcus Stroud after the 2007 season. After passing on opportunities to draft bigger names such as Boston College's BJ Raji and Ron Brace in the first... Read more

The players that were selected in the first two rounds of the NFL draft could not have been the only ones who went to bed with a smile on their face Saturday night. After watching the Jacksonville Jaguars take offensive tackles Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton in the first two rounds of Saturday's draft, one has to imagine that quarterback David Garrard slept more soundly than he has in a long time. Knowing that the Jaguars had solidified the offensive line with two players expected to be the franchise's bookend tackles for the next day had to have made for sweet dreams. Eugene Monroe (6'5, 309 lbs.), the left tackle from Virginia, was a player very few people, including Jaguars general manager Gene Smith, expected to still be available at pick number eight. But thanks to a couple of questionable selections by the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders ahead... Read more