(06-25-2017, 05:28 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(06-25-2017, 05:17 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: Personally I think run defense will be fine if Myles Jack can learn his role decently and the coaching staff does their gameplanning well.

Tennessee's offense worries me about the same amount as the texans, which is not really at all. Every team in the division has weak armed QBs except for Bortles, and maybe Luck if his shoulder recovers, and weak armed guys against a secondary this good will be doing a lot of dinking and dunking. I foresee a lot of INTs for Ramsey against Mariota. Should have had a couple of them in the last meeting of 2016. I see the same with the wild and weak armed QB the texans drafted, Watson.

It'll be an interesting season. Maybe the Jaguars 2017 is more like what all the pundits thought 2016 would be since the Gus cancer is finally gone.

While I do not see the opposing QBs in this division as having weak arms, I do not see many overpowering or imposing passing games.  In fact, if Luck is not the same guy the Colts drafted due to his shoulder, they are in some serious trouble.

Watson apparently has absolutely terrible arm strength going by his pass velocity at the combine. As for Mariota, maybe it's my imagination, but every time I see him his passes look more like later career Manning than someone like Brett Favre. Against bad defenses it's worked, mostly with short passes, but against good defenses he looked no better than Bortles.

What were the good defenses he played last year? Denver, Vikings, KC? The Jaguars? In those four games he passed for 699 yards, 3 TDs, and 2 INTs, and at the end of the season he had three of those teams in a row and put up three stinkers, completed a total of 33 passes over the three. The titans still won two of those games, but not because of Mariota.

For comparison, against Den, Min, and KC (just three of those games rather than 4) Bortles threw for just over 700 yards and 3TDs and 3 INTs. The difference? Gus is terrible, and so was the Jaguars running game, Bortles was being asked to carry the team, and against really good defenses he couldn't pull it out with no support. Mariota just got asked to manage some games where his team could run the ball decently, played good defense, and also had better coaching, as little as some around here think of Mularkey he was nowhere near as bad as Gus. He might not have been Belichick, but he's miles ahead a guy like Gus.

In any case I don't see this as a strong QB division right now, which is funny considering a lot of pundits are all over Mariota's jock, and there's no one in the NFL that's received more wet sloppy kisses for less big game performance than Andrew Luck.

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