Earlier this year, the Jacksonville defense has been getting comparisons to some recent great defenses. Now whether you believe that comparison is warranted or not, is not the subject matter of this thread. I think this is a good defense but the jury is out on its rankings of greatness (our greatness must be great!). But after yesterday’s rather disappointing performance I decided to look back at some the of the actual greats....and whether they had their own games like ours yesterday: 

2000 Ravens 

We should all remember this. In week 2 the Ravens allowed 36 points, 22 first downs, and 421 yards including 375 passing. (We only allowed 242 yesterday. Just remember that). 

2015 Broncos 

Great defense for sure. But something happened in week 15: against the Steelers, the defense allowed 34 points and 377 yards including 354 passing yards. Man, they really must have killed their momentum going into the playoffs...

2013 Seahawks

In week 5, the Seahawks legion of boom gave up 34 points, 317 yards and over 100 yards rushing to the vaunted colts. 

2002 Tampa Bay Bucs 

In week 9 to the Vikings, the defense gave up 24 points and 173 rushing yards as part of a total of Almost 400 yards allowed. 

So if the best defenses of all time had bad days, I’d say it’s fair to expect that our defense which in my opinion is good but not great, would have at least one bad day like yesterday. I think yesterday was a combination of bad penalties, killer turnovers by Bortles, and West Coast fever. Hopefully they can regroup and get the ship righted.

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