(12-26-2017, 11:22 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(12-26-2017, 11:18 AM)Jest101 Wrote: My biggest concern is that I think the team was/is losing focus.  The Pats grind every week in a business like mentality.  They do everything required to win each week.  The Jags had kind of done that for most of the season but then they took the 49ers lightly (I think the Cardinals too with Gabbert at QB).  I just hope they learn from their mistake.  They were not mentally prepared for the Niners and I don't think they put in the work last week to be ready (making assumptions here of course).

Not knocking Coughlin, but it seemed his Jags teams seem to "play down" to competition.  We would be so much better than another team on paper and end up losing to someone we had no business losing too.  But almost always stepped up against big opponents.  I hope Marrone can get these guys focused and properly prepared.

NFL officiating (especially what constitutes a catch) is the biggest joke in all of sports.  "Completing the process" and "surviving the ground" are flat out stupid.  I hope the NFL does away with these phrases and changes the definition of a catch to what we all know it looks like across America.  If the ball is in your hand for a moment, boom, it's a catch.
Triplette also sounded like a pissy little school girl all game.  Talk about no professionalism at all!  If I was Goodell, that dude would have been fired mid-game.

I feel like you’re not watching the game. Play down to the competition? Destroyed Texans twice. Destroyed Colts twice. Beat Bengals.


Yea Jags lost to the 49ers and Cards but plays down to competition? Not true. West coast games are always tricky.

They’re not losing focus. They got beat by a hot QB and a hot team. They battled back from 16 down to lead 19-16. They battled back to 33-37. We had some bone head mistakes which will certainly be cleaned up.

Some people on here take one game as gospel but forget the other 15. If the Jags come out and smoke the Titans then what? They’re focused and good again?

Yes, we definitely handled business a lot this season.  It's just an observation.

I'm not sure why we continue to make excuses for west coast games.  Great teams are able to win any time, any where.

I'm not sure what you're arguing here.  It's a discussion board...aren't we supposed to discuss?

Why excuse the Jags for not showing up against a "hot team" as you put it?  The 49ers are playing great lately and we fell short.  That's not a good thing.

I do believe we are better than we showed this past week but it's also not genuine to blow off the game entirely.

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