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The answer to this column's central questionù"Where's No. 91?"ùgets more complicated every week. Jacksonville's coaches tried Derrick Harvey out at outside linebacker and defensive end in the Jaguars' first few games this year before deciding to use him in both roles. Further into the season, his responsibilities as an outside linebacker were becoming distinct from his duties as a down lineman. Standing up, he'd rush the outside edge or drop into short ...

With under five minutes left in Sunday's game, Jaguars quarterback David Garrard seemed to have lobbed a softball to the St. Louis Rams and his detractors. His absent-minded screen pass to fullback Greg Jones hung in the air in front of Rams defensive end Leonard Little, an indictment of the tunnel-vision that critics have cited in deriding Garrard as a subpar signal-caller. As Little raced toward the end zone and a ...

Against an offensive line decimated by injuries, this past Sunday was supposed to be Derrick Harvey's coming-out party. With the Seattle Seahawks missing both starting tackles and their starting left guard, Harvey was considered a sure bet to notch his first sack of the season. In light of the picks the Jacksonville Jaguars spent to acquire him in the 2008 draft, anything less than a prominent stat lineùin the eyes of ...

To say that the past two weeks have been an "unkind" stretch for rookie left tackle Eugene Monroe would be quite the understatement. Coming off an impressive performance against the Houston Texans, where he held All-Pro defensive end Mario Williams without a sack, Monroe was one of three Jaguars to catch the flu in the week leading up to Jacksonville's home win over the Tennessee Titans. The illness caused him to lose ...

Matched up against one of the NFL's best left tackles last week, Derrick Harvey's production was understandably up-and-down. Michael Roos, Tennessee's All-Pro blind side bookend, was able to wall Harvey off on several successful runs in the first halfùwhile the game hadn't yet gotten out-of-hand on the scoreboard. The Titans gained 37 of their 76 first-half rushing yards on eight carries around Harvey's end. Like the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals before ...

It wasn't enough to prevent the second Jacksonville TV blackout of the season. It isn't enough to cushion the financial blow the Jaguars are taking from more than 20,000 unsold tickets. It won't be enough, if it continues, to keep the team from looking hard at relocation. But during Sunday's 37-17 rout of the Tennessee Titans, the 46,031 Jacksonville faithful in attendance made Jacksonville Municipal Stadiumùwhich seats 67,164ùfeel like the legitimate home ...

Dreadlocks flopping behind him, Jaguars guard Uche Nwaneri punched his fist through the air emphatically as running back Maurice Jones-Drew skipped into the end zone for his third touchdown Sunday at Houston. CBS color commentator (and former Jaguars quarterback) Steve Beuerlein noted that the Texans' linebackers "seemed to lose him [Jones-Drew] for a second" on the run. Take a look. Sure enough, DeMeco Ryans and Zac Diles lost sight of Jones-Drew during the ...

For Jacksonville's Derrick Harvey, Sunday's game at Houston was the first regular day he's had on the job in some time. Amidst a six-man rotation on the Jaguars' defensive line, Harvey played most snaps bulling forward from left end, both in three-man fronts and goal-line situations. The Jaguars moved their defensive front around for different blitz packages, but Harvey spent most of the game containing plays on his side, whether ...

Any matador worth his cape could have told the Houston Texans that when you flash your red, you'd better not be standing prone behind it. The Jacksonville Jaguars gashed the Texans' league-worst run defense Sunday for 184 yards and three touchdowns to spoil one of Houston's annual "battle red" uniform days. Amongst their 31 carries, one stood out as the Jaguars' signature. 1-10-HOU 19 (11:32) 32-[Maurice] Jones-Drew up the middle to HST ...

If the Jaguars keep trying to use Derrick Harvey as a big body, they're going to waste him. Reggie Hayward's season-ending injury in Jacksonville's loss at Indianapolis likely forced Harvey into his role this past Sunday. With new defensive coordinator Mel Tucker employing mostly three-man fronts in the first two regular season games, the Jaguars' defensive line has been pressed into service in positions with unique size requirements. At 6'5" and 281 ...