Mini camping with FBT: 6/6 AM practice session

pirkster (6/6/2008)

FBT (6/6/2008)

Jagrams (6/6/2008)

From what I'm reading on the QB situation, should we be concerned with the backup? It sounds like they shouldn't have let our backup go. Yeah, I know it is only minicamp. It doesn't sound like Mathis is getting off to a good start either particularly since he was banged up last year. Del Rio was singing the praises of Daryl Smith this morning on the radio saying this should be a good year for him. Thanks for the recap.

It's June. Let's not get too worried now. Let's see what happens when training camp starts. Even then, we're still talking about a backup QB.

Agreed. But this certainly doesn't sit well with folks like me who didn't like the signing in the first place. Personally I would have rather had a more experienced veteran. I'm not going to throw Lemon any farther under the bus than I already have, but he's really got to show me something to prove to me it wasn't a bad move - and he's not necessarily getting of to a good start. Even so, I'll give him a pass (pun completely intended) for summer but I'll be eager to see what he offers this fall. It's only backup QB, but you never know. Sounds like Bouman wouldn't necessarily be a bad alternative, so I'm not "worried" per se.

Lemon throws nice-looking, tight spirals from what I've seen, but he hasn't had all that much of a chance to get timing down with the receivers. This may be why he looks so sloppy this early, but is there more to it than that? What bugs me is Del Rio mentioning how he's not overly impressed with Lemon's arm. Knowing that they gave him a 4-year, $8 mil contract that included a $3 mil roster bonus, you'd like to know that he's at least as good as Quinn Gray who signed a minimal deal with the Texans. So far that doesn't look to be the case.

I do think the Jaguars made a mistake by not giving Gray the contract they gave Lemon. I'd feel far more confortable know that if Garrard goes down, they still have Gray. But we can't keep saying "what if," and like FBT said, we're talking about the backup QB position. Lemon is a mobile QB with starting experience able to escape tricky situations even if it means throwing on the run. It bugs me to see him arm being questioned because I felt that was a strength of his. Watching him on film, it appeared his biggest weakness was making bad decisions resulting in INTs. That's still my fear with him. Should he come in, is he just going to throw INTs like he was so prone to do in Miami?

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