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Originally Posted by The Franchise
I'm imagining cruise control in the 2nd half. Which will equal lots of talk about how "the Chargers did the same thing before losing".
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Eh. Actually, LAC did the opposite of cruising. Check the play-by-play. They stopped running the ball almost entirely in the 2nd half. It's incomplete pass immediately followed by incomplete pass followed by incomplete pass . . . in short, they helped JAX to get back in the game because they refused to burn down the clock with their run game. And in the first half they were moderately successful running, mostly around the edges, but they were getting 4 yards or so per rush outside.
But in LAC's first two drives of the 2nd half, which started 27-7 (LAC), they went 14 plays for a total of 82 yards, kicked a FG, but only used up 4:30-ish of the clock. They ran the ball just twice.
LAC basically kept giving JAX time and opportunities to get back in the game.
And JAX had to do something we've seen before from teams like TEN, CLE, NYJ, etc., in that they aren't a quick strike team; they have to march down the field 10 plays at a time, eating up the clock, just to score. Which is what they did vs. LAC with three 10+ play drives.
Andy isn't going to let that happen. He's going to get that big lead, then burn the clock down just like always does, and JAX simply won't have enough time to run all those plays to get back in the game.