(07-02-2017, 02:03 PM)cland Wrote: For SeldomRite's post, it would be interesting to see what the first score was into the 4th quarter by either team (not trying to assign you homework.)  I feel like if a team gets up 10-14 points they can go into a "bend don't break" defense to ensure their 2 score lead, and a burn the clock offense to chew up the clock.

I'm not really sure it matters. The point was just that those were games where the team was still in position to possibly win to start the quarter. If the defense continues to give up scores at the worst possible time (in critical end of game scenarios) the team will lose, and they did that a lot in 2016.

Also, for anyone that wants to defend the defense by saying something like they were on the field for the whole game because the offense sucked, that statement has already been debunked many times. The team lost a lot of games because at the ends of games both sides of the ball were terrible. The final game of the season against the colts epitomized the 2016 Jaguars. Good enough to be in position to win in the 4th quarter, bad enough to repeatedly let it slip away.

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