It’s no secret that the Jacksonville Jaguars are struggling. The team has gone 12-20 in the past two seasons and hasn’t made the playoffs since 2007, but it’s troubles don’t end there. The team has recently received criticism for only opening their intra-squad scrimmage to season ticket holders, and Vic Ketchman, senior editor of Jaguars.com, explained why on the team’s website.

In the most clear way possible, Ketchman makes the case that the Jaguars have reached a crisis point, if that wasn’t already clear.

“Ticket sales, not the futures of David Garrard and Jack Del Rio, is the number one issue confronting this team, and it’s not about next year’s ticket sales or growing the fan base for 2020, it’s about selling tickets for this year. This is it,” Ketchman says.

“This is save the whale and, from my perch on the beach, the whale is struggling to live. I think everyone would do well to understand that the radical nature of this decision underscores the team’s desperation to sell tickets. The team knew this decision would be harshly criticized, yet, it went forward with it. Why do you think it did? If your answer is that we have reached the tipping point, then you are a logical person.” –PFT

That sounds like a pretty foreboding message coming from the Jags front office. But I’m still shocked. A poorly managed team in a small market isn’t making money, you say? Why, that’s impossible! Next, you’ll be telling me of flying machines, and moving pictures that dance and make noise in a box I put in my sitting room!

They should have the sad trombone play every time Ketchman speaks, and introduce him as Debbie Downer. “We lost another million because the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is destroying our state’s economy, and we couldn’t sell tickets before that, either.” He’d say, “Did I mention that David Gerrard is our quarterback, and that we drafted Matt Jones in the first round a couple years ago? Oh, and we also drafted Tyson Alualu with the 10th overall pick in this years draft, whose only value is in the hilarity of his name.” By then, Ketchman would be laughing hysterically and would have a crazy, far off look in his eye. Somewhere, Donald Trump is rubbing his hands together and laughing smugly.

Jags wide receiver and noted white athlete on drugs Matt Jones was arrested yesterday for violating terms of his drug treatment program. Jones tested positive for alcohol, violating the terms of the probation to which he agreed after being arrested for possession last July.

Terms of Jones’ drug treatment program call for participants to abstain from drugs and alcohol, and individuals are tested randomly for the substances. Positive results from Jones’ alcohol test came in late last week, and he appeared in court Monday to face Judge Mary Ann Gunn, who presides over the drug court, about the positive result.[...]

Jones’ entrance into the Washington County Drug Court stems from an incident last July in which Fayetteville police arrested the former first-round draft pick after seeing him inside a parked car allegedly cutting up cocaine with a Foot Locker discount card.

Jones had the choice of spending ten days in jail or six weeks in rehab. He chose jail, meaning that that Foot Locker card got him 75% time off. it’s a crafty move, really. It’s so much tougher to get laid in rehab.

|Florida Times-Union, via KSK|

Matt Jones has been an unequivocal failure at receiver, even for the standards of a white receiver, since the Jaguars drafted the 6' 6" former Arkansas QB with their first-round pick in 2005. So if you can't hack playing well right, you might as well be a spectacular failure. Jones took an important stride towards that goal yesterday as he got arrested for cocaine possession.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office says officers arrested Jones and two other men as they sat in a Toyota 4Runner in an unlit parking lot in a known drug area.

The preliminary arrest report shows an officer saw Jones sitting in the back seat of the car with a white card with a white powdery substance on it, and a credit card in his other hand.

The officer said he opened the door and asked Jones to "put his hands where he could see them."

Authorities say Jones didn't comply right away and hid his left hand. The officer drew his gun and ordered Jones out of the vehicle. Jones got out and the officer put him in handcuffs.

A second officer placed the other two men under arrest. They're identified as Benjamin Cook, 26, and Jared Hicks, 25.

Uh-oh, Matt Jones is back liked cooked crack! Or is that back with Cook's coke? Either way, doing white powder off a white card, huh? At least Jones was trying to make his drug taking both stupid and difficult. Just the kind of versatility he shows in the pros by displaying ideal size and race-appropriate suckage.