• Site Published Tuesday, October 7, 2008  Once-proud defense
has deteriorated  Of all the repair work and soul-searching the
Jaguars must do to keep this season from disintegrating, the
biggest focus has to be the crumbling foundation upon which
coach Jack Del Rio built this team.  Not to minimize the issues
of an anemic running attack, poor third-down efficiency,
vanishing big-money receivers Jerry Porter and Dennis Northcutt,
or a dink-and-dunk passing game, but where is the fearsome
Jaguars defense?  I was under the impression they hired Gregg
Williams to rebuild that unit into a ferocious band of gang-
tacklers. They were supposed to terrorize quarterbacks so often
with exotic blitzes, their NFL peers would tout them as the new
Baltimore Ravens.  Instead, the Jaguars have a Doomsday defense,
one seemingly doomed to mediocrity. The blitz-heavy schemes that
Williams has employed - and which Del Rio scaled back to a basic
cover-two strategy in the second half of Sunday night's 26-21
loss to Pittsburgh - aren