Uncork the bubbly! After three straight seasons with but 10 white players on the roster, the Jaguars have 11 whiteys to open the '08 season! What will be the next historic breakthrough on the Jags, a white quarterback on the team?
Africa's Team is the NFL's showcase Caste System franchise. In an era when some of the least black dominated teams are, well, dominating (Patriots, Colts, Packers, Chargers), the Jaguars remain a playoff contender, albeit one struggling mightily to open the 2008 campaign.
There are two white starters on offense, both of them despised by the team's white fans. Whenever the running game stalls, RT Tony Pashos, in his sixth season out of Illinois, is sure to be blamed.
Of course the Jaguars' o-line remains a work in progress as it has been decimated by injuries. Brad Meester should be the starting center when he returns sometime in October.
Backup Todd Wade is the only other white lineman, hired only after Maurice Williams went on IR. It was Wade who put Jax over its heretofore time-honored tradition of having no more than 10 white players on the team.
Matt Jones is starting at wide receiver, only because the team's other receivers suck big-time or are injured. Head coach "Black Jack" Del Rio wanted badly to cut Jones outright after three seasons of not letting him develop and shredding his self-confidence, but circumstances have changed and Jones led the team in receiving in each of the first two games of the '08 regular season.
Jones' background and freakish talent have been detailed in excruciating detail in Caste Football articles and on the site's discussion board. While the media and drunk white fans call him a bust with a bad attitude, Jones has never had a fair chance of succeeding thus far. Why such a black-oriented team would draft him in the first place is a mystery; Jones is an intense competitor but has an extremely laid back personality that Del Rio and others have tried to forcibly change into one more typified by ultra-extraverted, screaming and yelling blacks. That's not Jones' style and never will be.
In his 2005 rookie season Jones had better numbers than any of the other four WRs picked in the first round of the NFL Draft that year. His second year wasn't great as he battled nagging injuries and he was on a bad passing team. 2007 was almost a complete wash, marked by public beratings by Del Rio and constant negativism from the coaching staff and his teammates. Jones ended up being inactive for many games.
Jones could yet be a big-time weapon on a team that attempts to give him an atmosphere in which he can thrive. The sooner he's out of Jacksonville the better.
The Jags have two white backup tight ends, Greg Estandia out of UNLV and Richard Angulo from Western New Mexico. Neither get more than the very occasional pass thrown their way.
Curiously, both white defensive players on the roster play the same position, tackle, which is the most rigidly Caste position on defense after cornerback. Rob Meier, in his ninth season out of Washington State, is starting this season after being a very effective backup most of his career.
Second year man Derek Landri out of Notre Dame backs up Meier.
NUMBER OF WHITE STARTERS: 3
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF WHITE PLAYERS ON 53 MAN ROSTER: 11
GRADE: F-
Africa's Team is the NFL's showcase Caste System franchise. In an era when some of the least black dominated teams are, well, dominating (Patriots, Colts, Packers, Chargers), the Jaguars remain a playoff contender, albeit one struggling mightily to open the 2008 campaign.
There are two white starters on offense, both of them despised by the team's white fans. Whenever the running game stalls, RT Tony Pashos, in his sixth season out of Illinois, is sure to be blamed.
Of course the Jaguars' o-line remains a work in progress as it has been decimated by injuries. Brad Meester should be the starting center when he returns sometime in October.
Backup Todd Wade is the only other white lineman, hired only after Maurice Williams went on IR. It was Wade who put Jax over its heretofore time-honored tradition of having no more than 10 white players on the team.
Matt Jones is starting at wide receiver, only because the team's other receivers suck big-time or are injured. Head coach "Black Jack" Del Rio wanted badly to cut Jones outright after three seasons of not letting him develop and shredding his self-confidence, but circumstances have changed and Jones led the team in receiving in each of the first two games of the '08 regular season.
Jones' background and freakish talent have been detailed in excruciating detail in Caste Football articles and on the site's discussion board. While the media and drunk white fans call him a bust with a bad attitude, Jones has never had a fair chance of succeeding thus far. Why such a black-oriented team would draft him in the first place is a mystery; Jones is an intense competitor but has an extremely laid back personality that Del Rio and others have tried to forcibly change into one more typified by ultra-extraverted, screaming and yelling blacks. That's not Jones' style and never will be.
In his 2005 rookie season Jones had better numbers than any of the other four WRs picked in the first round of the NFL Draft that year. His second year wasn't great as he battled nagging injuries and he was on a bad passing team. 2007 was almost a complete wash, marked by public beratings by Del Rio and constant negativism from the coaching staff and his teammates. Jones ended up being inactive for many games.
Jones could yet be a big-time weapon on a team that attempts to give him an atmosphere in which he can thrive. The sooner he's out of Jacksonville the better.
The Jags have two white backup tight ends, Greg Estandia out of UNLV and Richard Angulo from Western New Mexico. Neither get more than the very occasional pass thrown their way.
Curiously, both white defensive players on the roster play the same position, tackle, which is the most rigidly Caste position on defense after cornerback. Rob Meier, in his ninth season out of Washington State, is starting this season after being a very effective backup most of his career.
Second year man Derek Landri out of Notre Dame backs up Meier.
NUMBER OF WHITE STARTERS: 3
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF WHITE PLAYERS ON 53 MAN ROSTER: 11
GRADE: F-