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Jaguars Making Bold Moves

By BRANDON FINLEY

Throw your punches. Call the Jaguars idiots. Scream out loud if you want. Go ahead and say that Shaq Harris gave up to much to move up to the eighth spot to take Derrick Harvey. Go ahead and say that the Jags should have gave up their first round pick for Jason Taylor.

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Do whatever you have to do to convince yourself that this was a bad pick up for the Jaguars. It doesn't matter, because the fact is this was one of the boldest moves in Jaguars history. It resembled when Coach Jack Del Rio sent Byron Leftwhich packing before the season in a sense that there wasn't a soul that could see it coming.

So what if the Jaguars gave up two third round picks. One of those picks was a conditional pick received from Buffalo. So what if the Jaguars didn't go after Jason Taylor. He'll be 34 when the season starts, and unless he ages like a Simpson's character, he won't have many more years.

The fact is the Jaguars did one of the smartest things they've done on draft day in a long time. What they did wasn't pick a hope player like Matt Jones, who now collects more cash than catches. They didn't pick a guy like R.J. Soward. They picked a guy who does all the right things.

Harvey is a guy that might not come in on day one and make an immediate every down impact. What he will bring is a player that on third down can limit the quarterback's time to sit back in the pocket and pick the secondary apart. This is a guy that the Jaguars could have used greatly when Tom Brady picked them apart in the playoffs last season.

Sure, the Jags could have waited longer and picked up a player at the same position, but they wouldn't have been a former national championship game MVP like Harvey.

That's what Harvey bring in. He's a player that can change a game on just a couple of plays. He doesn't have to be a physical run stopper, because the Jaguars are already pretty damn good at doing that.

So quit the crying Jacksonville. It's time to back our GM. It's time to back Shaq.