JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –

After the Jacksonville Jaguars host the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, crews must prepare the field to host the Gator Bowl the following night.

The quick turnaround means crews will have a long night.

“Essentially, from the moment the Jaguars game ends until the gates open for the Gator Bowl game, there will be different activities taking place, breaking down one and prepping the other,” said Tracey Evans with SMG, which runs EverBank Field.

Evans said the company has executed turnarounds like this before, but a NFL game before a college game makes it unusual.

Plus, because it’s a bowl game, there are extra events going on inside the stadium, meaning more work.

“The two end zones will say ‘Jacksonville.’ Not Jaguars, not taxslayer,com. We’ll just change ‘Jacksonville Jaguars’ to a taxslayer.com logo,” said Evans.

Evans said her group has been meeting for moths in preparation.

“What you would typically do from Sunday to Saturday we’re doing in about a 15 hour period. Is that doable? Of course it is,” she said.

When Jacksonville Jaguars interim coach Mel Tucker called Blaine Gabbert “courageous” last week, Tucker lost credibility with regard to his public reviews of his rookie quarterback.

Monday, Tucker’s comments about Gabbert were more measured and more in line with the things I have been hearing from those who maintain it’s too soon to make any sort of final judgment about him.

“When he comes off the field and you ask him and his coaches ask him what he saw, he’s very, very accurate and I think that’s huge with a young player or any player,” Tucker said in comments to Jacksonville media on Monday. “When a player can come off the field and tell you exactly what he saw, what the defense was and why he did what he did, that’s a good sign.”

Moments are all we have in terms of seeing that for ourselves. On an early third-and-12 in Nashville Saturday, Gabbert took off running.

There was no real chance for him to reach the sticks, but I would have liked to have seen him do more — try more — than slide super early, settling for 4 yards.

Elsewhere, two plays in the game struck me as significant if we’re looking for reasons to maintain a degree of faith in Gabbert’s ability to improve as the Jaguars see a new owner take over and hire a new coach.

On a first-quarter third-and-6 from the Jaguars’ 22, he senses Dave Ball closing from his left, dipped and stepped forward with his eyes still downfield, squared his shoulders with another rusher coming hard from his right and hit Jarett Dillard for an 11-yard gain.

Gabbert had two opportunities to conclude the pocket was collapsing and the rush would get him but he kept trying to find something and connected on a conversion.

In desperation catch-up mode in the fourth quarter, with the Titans playing a bit softer as they tried to preserve a 23-10 lead, Gabbert took a shotgun snap on fourth-and-10 from the Tennessee 24. He moved right as Jurrell Casey dove for his ankles, then ran hard to keep Ball from getting him and threw to Dillard on the right sideline for a 21-yard gain.

Again, his head was up, he reacted fine to pressure and he found a play.

Those are just two snaps. They hardly wash away a poor rookie season during which he’s not played well on a team that hasn’t protected him consistently enough and which has horrible receivers.

But if you’re looking for hope that he can handle a rush, keep looking downfield and deliver a throw that can keep an offense moving, there are two plays you can point to.

Andre Johnson(notes) is finally ready to return to the field for the Houston Texans, and that is great news for newly anointed quarterback Matt Leinart(notes). This is even better news for fantasy football owners that have held on to Johnson while he suffered through injuries and then set-backs during the recovery period.

With Matt Schaub out for the year with his own injury, the team will have to turn to Leinart and Johnson to carry them to the postseason. Coming into this season, Johnson needed to step into that role anyways, but he has really been limited so far in 2011. He did post 352 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns early on though, but he will have to do even better than that in the coming weeks.

For fantasy football owners, Johnson will take the field on Nov. 27 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He and the Texans are coming off a bye week, so the team might start a little slow in the game, but everyone should have a lot of rest as well. Johnson becomes a must-start against a pretty weak team on defense, and there is a chance that he could put up some very impressive statistics.

It’s rough on fantasy football owners that Johnson is returning during a bye week, especially as many leagues near the postseason. At least he will become one of the must-start receivers for Week 12 though, and that could serve as a huge boost to any team that has limped along lately. For the Texans, he comes back at a very opportune time. The team is trying to pull away in the AFC South, and losing Schaub was of huge detriment to the team. Getting Johnson back may serve as a good boost for the team again, but the arm of Leinart becomes almost as important.

For the rest of the 2011 season, Johnson is a wide receiver that should get the start in any lineup (beginning in Week 12). It has been a long wait for him to get healthy, but he now presents the skill-set that could put up 120 yards and one or two touchdowns every week.

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A home game against the Jacksonville Jaguars is usually akin to a bye week for the Indianapolis Colts. Although players and coaches would never admit as much, the Colts and their double-digit wins have been in a completely different league from the Jags for years, and Indianapolis fans are quick to mark a “W” next to the annual game here at Lucas Oil Stadium. This season, though, our entire football world has been twisted by Peyton Manning’s(notes) neck woes , and the November 13 match-up between the two teams saw the Colts still scratching for their first win of the fall. Although I think the Jags are about the worst team the Colts have played this year, Indy still couldn’t get the job done, falling by a score of 17-3 . I really wonder at this point if my home team can squeak out even one victory before the calendar flips to a new year.

These two moribund clubs played through a fairly pedestrian first half and came out tied at three points each, courtesy of a couple of field goals. Although the Colts made a lot of mistakes in the second half, the Jags are just not a very good team, either, and couldn’t really pull away. When Indianapolis got the ball with 5:55 left in the fourth quarter, head coach Jim Caldwell put the ball in the hands of backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky(notes) to try and overcome the moderate 10-3 deficit that Colts faced. Orlovsky has been called upon late in each of the last couple of games, a clear indication that starter Curtis Painter(notes) does not garner much confidence from his coach.

In this game, as in all of the others, the signal caller on the field as time wound down made little difference, as Orlovsky’s lost fumble on third down eventually led to Jacksonville’s final score and another drubbing for the Colts. As has been the story all year long, it wasn’t just poor quarterback play that cost Indianapolis this game, although three QB turnovers and 128 passing yards were pitiful. The Colts’ already gassed defense was on the field way too long, thanks in part to a running game that generated only 84 yards, and the offense got little help from a return game that averaged a shade under three yards per run-back.

So now the Colts enter their bye week at 0-10 and then face the Carolina Panthers after Thanksgiving. Chances are that the holiday feeding frenzy will do little to fix an Indianapolis team that is so fundamentally broken. The good news, I suppose, is that the Colts are tightening their grip on that number one overall draft pick for 2012.

Adam Hughes was raised, and still lives, in rural Indiana. He has been a Colts fans since the team arrived in Indianapolis on a snowy morning in 1984. The Blue and White eventually replaced the Chicago Bears as his #1 team, and Super Bowl XLI was a dream come true.

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