You know, any year but this, we could take a story like “First graders offer tips for Jaguars to win” and make the easy, hanging-right-there joke: that those first graders could do a better job running the Jags than the current regime. But since somehow, against all rational expectation, the Jaguars have reached the AFC championship, we have to dial back the cheap humor and go with the truth: this is a sweet gesture from the kids in the first grade at the Bolles School.
Jaguars coach Doug Marrone showed the kids’ letters to the media on Thursday morning:
Marrone did allow that he’s heard from plenty of people on how to defeat the hated Pats, but considering how well they’ve fared over the last decade-plus, he doesn’t place a whole lot of stock in their opinions: “I find it hard to believe how so many people have an opinion on how to beat the New England Patriots, and no one has really … done that.