(02-05-2018, 07:05 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(02-05-2018, 06:55 AM)JackCity Wrote: Nope.

Our team and coaching staff bottled away a 4th quarter lead.

I think that's a fair statement. Regardless of the fact that the stripes clearly had it out for us in that game the bottom line is that we didn't get creative enough and aggressive enough to stave them off in the 4th quarter.

They're both fair statements. The Jaguars could have done more to score, and to stop the Patriots at key points in the game.

But it is an undeniable truth that in a game that was decided by four points, seven points were stolen from the Jaguars by bad officiating (the Jack touchdown) and at least seven were gifted to the Patriots by bad (or at the very least unbalanced) calls that kept drives alive for them (while the Jaguars never got equivalent calls/non-calls).

So yes, the Jaguars could still have overcome that to win the game. But they were playing in a situation which was equivalent to the game starting with the score at NE 14 - 0 JAC. Fix either of those, and the Jaguars are in the Superbowl.

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