Since day one there have been divisional rivals. The Steelers, Browns, Ravens. Then The Titans, Colts, and Texans. I vaguely remember Houston being so fired up to play Jacksonville that they wore a special Battle Red jersey for home games; not any more.
I guess the only temporary rival the Jaguars have are the Jets.
Remember Bill Cowher stepping onto the field as Chris Hudson (?) returned the blocked FG for a TD?
The Jaguars are irrelevant. At least be competitive. Khan is raking it in through the sharing of NFL television revenue. He's making money while losing. He has no incentive to win. If he did Meyer would have been gone after the groping incident and blowing off the flight home from Cincinnati.
(12-13-2021, 04:40 PM)Rockman1966 Wrote: [ -> ]Since day one there have been divisional rivals. The Steelers, Browns, Ravens. Then The Titans, Colts, and Texans. I vaguely remember Houston being so fired up to play Jacksonville that they wore a special Battle Red jersey for home games; not any more.
I guess the only temporary rival the Jaguars have are the Jets.
Remember Bill Cowher stepping onto the field as Chris Hudson (?) returned the blocked FG for a TD?
The Jaguars are irrelevant. At least be competitive. Khan is raking it in through the sharing of NFL television revenue. He's making money while losing. He has no incentive to win. If he did Meyer would have been gone after the groping incident and blowing off the flight home from Cincinnati.
Yes. I will remember that play until the day I die. I LOVED the Jaguars/Steelers rivalry. I lived for it. I hated the Steelers more than any opponent we've ever had. I know a lot of people believe the Titans are our rivals, but I never felt that way. To me, they are just another team. I loathed the Steelers though.
Agreed. Khan is more interested in money and arrogance over building a winning team. It's sad. I wish he cared half as much as Jerry Jones cares about the Cowboys. Say what you want about Jones, but he loves his team and is willing to to whatever it takes to make his team a winner. Khan just sits on his hands and watches his team burn to the ground.
our rival is ourselves, it seems. as soon as someone becomes a Jaguar, any past success, morale, skill, and potential go flying out the window.
We are team get-right, everyone's favorite week on their schedule.
You guys hit the nail on the head. When a billionaire buys and NFL team, what does it matter if he loses or wins? He gets paid the same amount.
Kount Khan
Jerry Jones cares about winning. Wayne Weaver cared about winning. Khan cares about counting his money.
The Steelers were our first rivalry. The Titans are hated bc of the 1999 season. They pretty much did what the Giants did to the 2007 Patriots. Both teams only lost to 1 team. The Jags would have wiped the floor with the Rams. The Jags would have scored more than 23 points in that Super Bowl.
As far as the Texans, they are just another team. We have no rivalry with them. It’s always been the Steelers.
It bugs me to no end that the tacks own the Jaguars, every freaking year. It will take us YEARS to catch up to the deficit we now hold.
The Colts haven't won in Jacksonville in 5 years iirc, even last year as we were terrible our single victory was against them. We had some battles in the 2000's and handed Peyton a few L's as they won division titles. Even as we were terrible the last decade we found ways to win against them and split the series against all odds, we usually play them tough regardless of the year.
We haven't won against the Titans recently for there really to be a flame in that rivalry, and the Texans and Jags have never had any games with real stakes to them to put any meaning into the rivalry. I could see us reinvigorating the Titans rivalry, and the Colts has always been a rivalry just not a heated one.
Came in a bit late but already hated the Squealers. 99 was enough for me to make the tacks a rivalry. Sadly, years later dwelling the basement of the AFCS, I have gotten over the tittians and Jeff Fisher. It’s pretty sad when your organization loses to the tacks and you’re okay with it in hopes it gets the HC fired. Yep, I think we’re all a bit apathetic. We really need an award. We’re good peoples.
Rivalries aren't fueled by pity but hatred. Teams pity us and our players.
(12-13-2021, 07:02 PM)Firesky Wrote: [ -> ]The Colts haven't won in Jacksonville in 5 years iirc, even last year as we were terrible our single victory was against them. We had some battles in the 2000's and handed Peyton a few L's as they won division titles. Even as we were terrible the last decade we found ways to win against them and split the series against all odds, we usually play them tough regardless of the year.
We haven't won against the Titans recently for there really to be a flame in that rivalry, and the Texans and Jags have never had any games with real stakes to them to put any meaning into the rivalry. I could see us reinvigorating the Titans rivalry, and the Colts has always been a rivalry just not a heated one.
Being that our entire division was put together as nothing more than the AFC leftovers after regional and historical rivalries were left intact, it makes sense that we are still absent of any heated competition between teams. In the late 00s we considered Indy the rival because they were the competition for the top of the division. But, in spite of that, their focus was always directed more at postseason and intra-conference rivalry (Payton v Brady was much bigger than any divisional game).
The tacks did their darnedest to draw our hatred between Fisher and greggggg williams in 99. But, it seems that we rarely are both fighting for the top of the division at any time since then, and our decade of futility have rendered us just a joke to the rest of the teams we face. A good rivalry includes some back and forth. We've just been a pushover for way too long for anyone not to brush off a loss as a fluke, or a win as just getting business done rather than anything personal.
We have to first become competitive before we can begin thinking about rivalry.
(12-13-2021, 11:29 PM)MoJagFan Wrote: [ -> ]Rivalries aren't fueled by pity but hatred. Teams pity us and our players.
Agreed. Rivalries go back and forth. We just get smashed by everyone. Nobody wants to be our rival. It makes them look weaker. Beating us is like beating up the kid in high school that rode the short bus, had headgear and wore a back brace. It only makes you look like an [BLEEP] for picking on him.