(03-10-2018, 04:16 PM)DragonFury Wrote: I don't think this roster is being built to beat a specific team in the league but more to take advantage of a trend in the league towards high price quarterbacks on teams with mediocre at best defenses. Because those teams are heavily invested in their passing games it leaves talent on the table for other positions. One example of this is the tinhorns spending a ton of money on Osweiler which meant to didn't have the space to pay Bouye as well, which allowed us to pick him up. Campbell came onto the FA market because Arizona didn't have the money to pay him, partly because Palmer and Fitzgerald had a combined cap hit of $40 million.

Conversely, teams are building defenses to stop the passing game and as a result leave themselves vulnerable to teams with a strong running game. Houston and Seattle are both teams we beat partly because those teams failed to stop the run when it really mattered. Pittsburgh counts as well but that's slightly tempered by the fact they were missing Shazier in the second game. New England eventually beat us because they were able to stop the run.

New England beat us because they loaded up to stop the run in order to put the football in Blake Bortles' hands. Any team can stop the run albeit might look like the famous 10-1 electric football formation some times.

Bortles was given the football with 2:48 left. 

Here is that drive:

Jacksonville Jaguars at 02:48 

3-S.Gostkowski kicks 65 yards from NE 35 to end zone, Touchback.

1-10-JAX 25

(2:48) (Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles pass short middle to 11-M.Lee to JAX 33 for 8 yards (24-S.Gilmore).

2-2-JAX 33

(2:24) (No Huddle, Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles pass deep left to 12-D.Westbrook pushed ob at NE 38 for 29 yards (24-S.Gilmore) [98-T.Flowers].

1-10-NE 38

(2:12) (Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles pass incomplete deep left to 27-L.Fournette.

2-10-NE 38

(2:07) (Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles sacked at NE 45 for -7 yards (53-K.Van Noy). FUMBLES (53-K.Van Noy) [92-J.Harrison], recovered by JAX-74-C.Robinson at NE 47. 74-C.Robinson to NE 47 for no gain (98-T.Flowers).

Two-Minute Warning

3-19-NE 47

(2:00) (Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles pass short right to 80-J.O'Shaughnessy pushed ob at NE 43 for 4 yards (25-E.Rowe).

4-15-NE 43

(1:53) (Shotgun) 5-B.Bortles pass incomplete deep right to 12-D.Westbrook (24-S.Gilmore) [98-T.Flowers].

Not a single rushing attempt. Not one.

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