Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
Nobody going to point out that if the Jaguars receivers could handle the complexity of keeping their feet in bounds/toe tapping, Sunshine's stat line has him eviscerating the Kansas City Chiefs for multiple scores?
All things being equal, Jacksonville beat themselves.
Dont get me wrong, it's great to see a traditionally slow starting Spags unit that doesn't start slow or just drop its panties in the redzone for 7, and definitely raised the difficulty level, but these young receivers for the Jags, they are the MVPs for KC. 0/4 redzone for the Jags. Half step better on the offense, those are big touchdowns. Good on the defense for making those plays difficult plays and not cakewalks.
The sheer refusal to run the football in the first half is concerning. Andy has got to be better in balancing this out. Started the second half with a bang, huge run by Pacheco, followed instantly by Andy grabbing his own ballsack and squeezing hard, throwing ****ing Clyde in there for a run on the ensuing play to just bring everything back to a screeching halt. I'll never understand why this receiver keeps getting snaps at running back for rushes. He's a receiver. That's it.
It was nice to see Andy finally take that HUGE gamble, and just run behind the best interior line in football for one yard with Pacheco.
Teams are wise to all of this cute shit, because this is two weeks in a row all of the artsy fartsy pirouettes and dancing in around in grandma's panties has simply ended with a massive haymaker to the jaw by the defense with the play utterly, hilariously destroyed and seemingly the d saw it coming a mile away.
Sometimes, you just need to line the **** up, and just play ****ing football. Stop going for the sucker punch and just go straight ahead. Andy outsmarting himself on every third and short is excruciating. I have NEVER seen a team convert so poorly on and 1 distance, with the alleged best play designer in NFL history. Give me 3rd and 15 over 3rd and 1 every time. Just take 3 delays, and hit the 27 hard gainer to move the sticks.
It was a sloppy game. 3 turnovers in a half usually gets you beat, but Jax looked very poor today also.
It was good to see the pass rush getting after Lawrence. Chris Jones unfortunate combination of both greed and stupidity has resulted in a situation where he's gonna have to perform at the highest of levels every week, just to break even with what he would have gotten if he'd just reported from the jump, which is a massive boost to that defense. He was on limited snaps today, which has to be frustrating when you're jumping off the screen and you have incentives to meet.
Kelce and Oluakon had some things to say after the game with Mahomes having to step between the two. Kelce out of sorts and clearly not 100%, and two 15 yard penalties called on him today, invoking memories of a younger more hot-headed version of him. Not sure what he has going on, but he's been short tempered all through camp as well. Hope he can get it in check. It's definitely not the same guy we watched last season emotionally.
As they say, a win is a win. Another week to get things cleaned up, and another opponent we should handle if we play Chiefs football.
As for Taylor, he will adjust and be fine. The crew in this game didn't want their asses cooked by the league office for not flagging the guy they sent a tape out about. Line up one step forward, and stop with the early jump shit. The holding call on him was atrocious. The league got their little crackdown they wanted, and things should loosen up with the blatant targeting going forward.
Better balance of run and pass, and emphasis on ball security this week should be the main points, and send Travis to anger management.
This spags D should feast on Justin Fields next week.
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