(02-12-2022, 11:00 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(02-12-2022, 06:17 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: On the "Myles Jack wasn't down" play, Myles Jack appeared to have recovered a fumble and gotten touched by a member of the Patriots when he was down, but replay showed he was still bobbling the ball when he was touched.   So technically, he wasn't down.  Then he got up and ran for a TD, but the play had been blown dead.  And you can't overturn a whistle.  

We had plenty of other chances to win that game.  We let Tom Brady complete a 19 yard pass on 3rd and 18, for example.  Just stopping that one play would have won us the game.  My memory of that game was not of the officials making a bad call.  What I remember is us allowing the Pats to come back, when we had plenty of opportunities on defense to make the one play that would have sealed the game for us. 

Would we have beaten the Eagles in the Super Bowl?  That would have meant Blake Bortles winning a Super Bowl.  Looking back on it, that seems pretty far-fetched.  

For long time Jags fans, a far more painful loss was the 1999 AFC Championship Game in our own stadium.   We went 15-3 including the playoffs that year.  We beat the Dolphins and Dan Marino/Jimmy Johnson the week prior 62-7.  Then we lost to our biggest, most hated rival, the Titans, in the AFCCG the very next week.  We lost 3 total games that season, all to the same team- the Titans.  That 1999 team was far better than the 2017 team.  That loss in the 1999 AFCCG was by far the most painful loss for me in my life.

I was there and it was brutal.  Blanked 23-0 in the second half, McNair running wild for yardage on plays where we had him contained, George pounding it down our throats.  3 fumbles and an INT pretty much did us in in the 2nd half.  The DelGreco FG right before the half was a momentum builder for them.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."