(01-06-2019, 01:19 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(01-06-2019, 01:03 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I think that narrative has been running for at least 4 weeks now actually. 

There were several that were pumping them up pretty high in November as well. That offense was posting numbers pretty consistently in Oct/Nov

Which makes their impotence against the Jags for six quarters all the more puzzling. The Jaguars had major problems with discipline most of the season, including the first half against the colts, but against the colts they were either inspired or the colts don't do the things that keep exposing us. The Jaguars were a fumble away from sweeping them, and we only played them during their hot part of the season.

It's not that puzzling IMO. 

The Jags defense in 2018 was a rollercoaster of elite level play and severe underperformance.  The defense you saw in the first half of the first colts tilt (and the cowboys game) was the latter. 

The other major factor there is that Reich/Sirianni had a good plan to attack Wash's Cover 3 (off-man) zone scheme and went he adjusted away from that, the colts couldn't win against man coverage (or zone coverage with a press on the corners to a lesser extent)
It's that old chestnut we've harped on about the "soft zone" around here for years now. Wash adjusted. 

Basically - the Jags defense just played up to their potential in 6 of 8 quarters vs the colts in 2018.

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