(12-27-2018, 07:31 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote:

(12-27-2018, 06:24 PM)hb1148 Wrote: 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.

Well yes, a good offense doesn't turn the ball over as routinely as they did, so yes, they weren't a good offense.

Also, short fields wasn't my only point. How many times did the defense stop the opposition on downs, receive the punt, only for offense to punt it right back? Wasn't that almost the entirety of the Buffalo game? Sorry, good offenses don't look like that. 

What was puzzling was the bursts of brilliance they had. But that was always followed by stretches of ineptitude. Average both of those things together and you get, well...average, like I said. I'm not saying they were terrible, but they weren't good, either.

Well, let me know if you need me to make any more points for you and I will. ;-)  But one point (or game) does not a convincing argument make. It's like the people that think Fournette sucked that year because he had a 3.9 ypc average in 2017 even though he accounted for nearly 1400 yards. They're getting hung up on one point and losing track of the big picture. The Buffalo game plan was to play a ball control offense against a very good defense and so that's what happened. Look at what they did for the rest of December and against Pittsburgh.

You should look at the game logs or whatever and not let what happened this year cloud your perception of what happened last year. The offense collapsed this year but I think they have a chance to get back to or be better than what they were in 2017. The OL and new QB/coordinator combo will be the key.

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