(09-14-2022, 08:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(09-14-2022, 07:30 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: In division rivals know each other very well and some teams just matchup well against others and have their number.  When a team beats another team as many times as we have the Colts in can get in their head.  They wrote the score on the walls in the locker room lol.  Inthink they have been thinking about this game every since week 17.  When you are in one's head like that it can have an affect one's game imo.  Of course anything can happen anyone can win or lose any given Sunday but I think the week 17 loss will still have am affect on them

We have six different starters on defense this year and 6 on offense

That's 54 percent of the starting lineup. 

All playing in new schemes. 

And you think 'having their number' prior to that means anything? 

I think it means nothing other than the colts will be hungry to not look foolish.

And that's just in one year!  Let's look at the number of current starters out of 22 that the Jaguars have in common with those teams over the past 7 years:

2021:  10 Starters (46%)
2020:  4 Starters (18%)
2019:  2 Starters (9%)
2018:  0 Starters (0%)
2017:  1 Starter (5%)
2016:  0 Starters (0%)
2015:  0 Starters (0%)

In three out of those seven years, the Jaguars won't have a SINGLE STARTER being the same and in a couple others, you only have one or two.  It's ridiculous to say that these games prove the current Jaguars match up well against the Colts.  You maybe, and I emphasize the word maybe, have last year, but flukes and upsets are very common in the NFL and therefore one game streaks means very little.  Should the Jaguars be favored over the Bills because we beat them last year?

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