(12-27-2018, 05:19 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote:

(12-27-2018, 03:40 PM)hb1148 Wrote: There were inconsistencies last year true, mostly thanks to Blake's inconsistency. But that was a pretty good offense last year. Only 17th in passing offense but we lead the league in rushing offense and as I already mentioned, 6th in overall scoring and 7th in offensive TDs scored. No matter how you cut it, that's pretty darn good.  Makes the collapse this year all the more crazy.

I disagree. You're trotting out rankings as if they mean everything. There are so many factors those rankings do not take into account. For example, let's revisit scoring. Already mentioned was defensive touchdowns, but how many offensive scores can still be attributed to the defense by giving the offense a short field? How about time of possession afforded the offense by the defense? Truth be told, as often as the defense gave the offense the ball, the team should have been number one in scoring by a large margin. Also, if the offense was "darn good" as you describe, the team would had have a better record than the 10-6 they posted, plus the would have went into this season as the Champions.

Really, last year's offense was average, so yes, this year's "collapse" makes perfect sense. Take an already questionable offense, saddle it with some key injuries, and we get the complete ineptitude we've witnessed this season.

We can disagree, it's a free country but I still say last year's offense was good and the numbers bear that out. In addition to the other things I've mentioned, the Jags also ranked 6th in total yards gained which invalidates the idea they were scoring due to short fields. Your main gist seems to be that you have a feeling they weren't very good so they must not have been very good which is pretty subjective. The reason they only went 10-6 in 2017 was due to their weakness with regards to giving the ball away.  If you'd make the argument that a good offense doesn't give the ball away that frequently, you'd have more of a point but that doesn't negate the fact that they were still moving the ball and scoring at a good rate.

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