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With a talented quarterback and an impressive free agency
we ask if the Jacksonville Jaguars are ready to make a
push for the NFL play-offs. The NFL off-season is a great
time to look ahead and assess the quality of each
franchise and work out what would be considered a success
for the upcoming season.This is no more relevant than in
Jacksonville where owner Shahid Khan, who also owns
Championship club Fulham, has stated that the Jags must
be significantly better, and that a winning record is
everybodys reasonable expectation at this point. The
Jaguars have been rebuilding for the last three years,
having drafted a quarterback and growing the team around
him.With that in mind, Sky Sports takes a look at the
reasons for optimism and realism for Jags fans.Free agent
moves Super Bowl 50 winner Malik Jackson was an eye-
catching addition in free agency The Jaguars were active
early in free agency; they had to be. There were a number
of holes to fill, particularly on their defence, which
finished 24th in yards allowed last season.The marquee
signing of Super Bowl winning defensive end Malik
Jackson, as well as the arrival of Tashaun Gipson, Prince
Amukamara and Kelvin Beachum, can help to shore up a team
that has struggled to pressure opposition quarterbacks.On
the offensive side of the ball, the Jaguars signed
running back Chris Ivory from the Jets which gives them a
powerful alternative to promising talent TJ Yeldon. Chris
Ivory has swapped the Jets for the Jaguars However they
did miss out on a couple of big splashes. Having offered
a contract to Olivier Vernon, they were blown out of the
water by the Giants, who landed the DE on a staggering
$85m contract.The Jags are also still without a centre,
with free agent Steven Wisniewski leaving for his
hometown club Pittsburgh Steelers, and target Alex Mack
signing with the Falcons. There is a little more work to
be done, but another good draft and Jacksonville will
feel happy going into training camp.Draft PicksWith the
fifth overall pick in this years draft, the Jaguars have
the opportunity to land a supreme talent. They will most
likely keep focus on the defensive rebuild, with a huge
array of talent on offer.Potentials include cornerback
Jalen Ramsey, defensive end Joey Bosa, and linebacker
Myles Jack. Jack, widely considered the most talented
player available, missed the majority of last season with
a serious knee injury and as a result, could fall to
number five.After a strong free agency, aside from centre
the Jags have no positions of absolute need, so have the
freedom to select the best overall talent available. A
franchise QB? Blake Bortles is starting to live up to his
vast promise The Jaguars were a much improved offensive
unit in 2015, and the maturation of Blake Bortles is a
major factor behind that. Heading into his third year,
Bortles is looking to top his 35-touchdown 2015 season,
and must reduce the number of interceptions thrown to
prove he can be an elite level QB.With another season
under his belt to gel with the weapons around him,
Bortles will be keen to kick on and prove himself among
the most promising passers in the NFL.The loss of
Wisniewski will be a blow to Bortles, who will play next
season with his third different centre in three years.
The trust between the two positions is integral to a
successful offence, and it may be a case of drafting a
top choice in the early rounds. A cautionary taleAround
this time last year, Bortles was heralded as the best
rookie QB of the year before, the Jags had added Pro Bowl
tight end Julius Thomas, and went on to draft highly
rated Dante Fowler Jr.A few months later, Fowler was out
for the season, Thomas missed the first four games and
the Jags finished up with another losing record (5-
11).Although it all seems rosy for Jacksonville at this
moment in time, it is worth considering that it is only
April. If coach Gus Bradley can put all the pieces of the
jigsaw together and have the team playing in September,
then we can start to look at this team with a view to the
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coming in mid-November.International football badly
needed a good World Cup. The jury is yet to deliver a
verdict with the knockout rounds still to come, but all
indications are that this will not be a good World Cup.
Indeed, it is on track to be a great World Cup. Two weeks
to the day that the opening match of the tournament
between Brazil and Croatia came to a close, the curtain
came down on the group stages and what a sensational show
it was. We are now already through three quarters of the
tournament, but rather than be sad that much of it is
over, we should be grateful with what we witnessed. It
was a group stage that gave us more special moments than
the three previous World Cups combined. A group stage of
surprises, where tactically versatile and organized sides
shocked the so-called super powers of the game. A group
stage that saw the renaissance of 3-5-2, used so well by
surprise teams like Netherlands, Costa Rica and Mexico. A
group stage of counterattackers, comebacks and headers,
trends that the Netherlands used in their demolition of
Spain back on Day 2. Their superb pressing and clinical
finishing gave us a glimpse of what was to come in
Brazil, but not before that look and pass by Daley Blind
just before the half-time break. The ball landed on top
of the supremely intelligent head of Robin van Persie and
his magnificent header over Iker Casillas changed
everything. It became the group stage of headers with 27
more following van Persies, but none of them beating it.
It became the group stage of comebacks. Spain, massacred
by the Dutch 5-1 in the third game of the tournament, was
already the second team, after Croatia a day earlier, to
lose a game they led. A small, exclusive group of only
four from 2010 would grow quickly as Uruguay, Japan,
Ecuador, Algeria and Australia joined them in the first
week. During their second group games Germany, Ghana,
Portugal and USA all managed to not win games against
each other that they led in. Even Uruguay, Greece and
Algeria had comebacks of their own, all qualifying
despite losing their opening World Cup match. Only Spain
did that in 2010. It became the group stage of
counterattacks, once again ignited by the Dutch over
Spain as they scored their last three goals with a
combined 29 seconds in possession, and never more
highlighted than when Switzerland broke away in the final
seconds to score a dramatic, crucial winner over Ecuador.
It became the group stage of creative, left-footed
masters who glided across the field into space left open
by a transition. The group stage of substitute goals, 24
in total, highlighted by Miroslav Klose joining the great
Ronaldo on 15 World Cup goals and James Rodriguez dancing
his way through the Japanese defence for one of the goals
of the tournament. In the end, though, it was the group
stage of goals as an incredible 136 wennt in (there was a
total of 145 scored in South Africa).dddddddddddd It was
no surprise that a wind of caution blew around the
stadiums as the third group games took place but before
they started the goals per game ratio stood at a
wonderful 2.96. It ends the group stage at a beautifully
high 2.83. There are still 16 games to go, of course, but
no World Cup since 1970 has come close to that average.
It wasnt just about the amount of goals, however. Many of
the worlds stars were the ones scoring and we already
have three world class stars on four goals each through
three games. My 23 man squad of the group stages GK –
Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico), Keylor Navas (Costa Rica),
Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria) D – Serge Aurier (Ivory
Coast), Cristian Gamboa (Costa Rica), Kostas Manolas
(Greece), Rafa Marquez (Mexico), Mario Yepes (Colombia),
Raphael Varene (France), Giancarlo Gonzalez (Costa Rica),
Daley Blind (Netherlands). M – Jose Vazquez (Mexico),
Hector Herrera (Mexico), Blaise Matuidi (France), Charles
Aranguiz (Chile), Toni Kroos (Germany), James Rodriguez
(Colombia) F – Neymar (Brazil), Lionel Messi
(Argentina), Karim Benzema (France), Thomas Muller
(Germany), Arjen Robben (Netherlands), Robin Van Persie
(Netherlands) Group Winners – Brazil, Netherlands,
Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Argentina, Germany &
Belgium. For the third time in the last four World Cups,
three teams that were not seeded won groups. For the
second successive World Cup, the only seed that didnt
progress through to the next stage was the previous
winners (Spain 2014, Italy 2010). Since the World Cup
went to 32 teams in 1998, over the last four World Cups,
nine group winners have lost in the next round (average
of more than two per World Cup) and there hasnt been a
World Cup in that time when all group winners advanced.
Runners-up – Mexico, Chile, Greece, Uruguay,
Switzerland, Nigeria, USA & Algeria. With that stat in
mind it is likely that at least one of these teams will
beat their opponent. Look for Greece, Uruguay, possibly
Mexico, USA and even Chile to continue this streak. After
that? In nine of the last 10 World Cups a group runner-up
has made it to at least the semi-final stage. That will
be the target of one of these teams going forward.
Ranking teams eliminated at this World Cup based on
performances in Brazil 32. Honduras31. Cameroon30.
Japan29. South Korea28. England27. Iran26. Bosnia &
Herzegovina25. Russia24. Portugal23. Australia22.
Spain21. Croatia20. Ivory Coast19. Italy18. Ghana17.
Ecuador Ranking teams left at this World Cup based on
their chances of winning the World Cup 16. Switzerland15.
Algeria14. USA13. Greece12. Costa Rica11. Nigeria10.
Mexico9. Belgium8. Chile7. Uruguay6. Colombia5. France4.
Netherlands3. Germany2. Brazil1. Argentina
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