(01-25-2018, 03:32 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(01-25-2018, 02:26 PM)FBT Wrote: I think they simply felt momentum had swung to New England and they wanted to get to the locker room knowing they’d get the ball to start the 2nd half.  

I thought they should have at least run a play to see if they could get something started, but I think they were concerned that if they did, NE would have started burning timeouts to get one more shot before the half.  I did t like the decision, but understood it completely.

I don’t think it had anything to do with Bortles.  As far as Hackett is concerned, he had called a good game to that point.

New England only had 1 timeout left.  We really should have had 2 running plays called and ran them fairly quickly to see if one of them could have gotten a chunk of yardage and a first down.  Even if NE calls time out after a potential 2nd stuffed run play, we could run it again on 3rd or just kneel out the half at that point.  With only 1 time out, there was no threat from NE regarding clock stoppages.

Essentially my thought on it as well.

If the Jaguars didn't want to be risky they could have still run a play. It was the taking of the knee and precluding any possibility of success that was galling.

Were it me I'd have probably done something like lining up in five wide with Grant split out wide to disguise it and then bring him in and run a draw against a pass defense and seen how it goes.

Sure it risks an unlikely fumble, but it seems to me that you have to try to win on every down, and the Jaguars showed they weren't doing that at the end of the first half, and it showed in a major way the rest of the game.

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