(09-24-2022, 12:23 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Finally got around to rewatching the game and taking notes.  Trevor looked better to me on the rewatch if that's possible.  He was poised, confident, made quick decisions, read through progressions, protected the football, used his legs to buy time and to make plays when necessary and it's clear to me a corner has been turned.  If he continues to play like he did against the clots, he will be a very difficult quarterback to go against for opposing defenses for the foreseeable future.  I'd like to see more game on the line type situations which will undoubtedly come in time, but he put on a show last week.  There were few instances that stuck out of the clots beating themselves though the early Ryan INT was on Ryan and less about pressure or a spectacular defensive play in my opinion.  We beat them handily and much of that derived from Trevor's very quick decision making and accurate throws. Offense, defense and special teams don't play in vacuums.  They directly benefit from solid play from other areas.  It's called complimentary football.  The Jaguars played great complimentary football last Sunday which is why the end result was what it was.  Not only that, but they schemed guys running free at the QB which led to big defensive plays at times (stunts, safety blitz, etc).

3) Trevor - See above.  There were complaints by some about the one pass that was defensed well being nearly intercepted.  On rewatch, the defender stretched to make that play.  It was a great defensive play.  It wasn't a bad throw or decision as the defender had to make a spectacular effort to defend it and looked like it might have been physically impossible for him to intercept it.  It happens.  The ball would have hit the receiver in stride and been a TD otherwise. If he's not your 3 this week, you're making excuses not to give it to him.  He earned it.

The next two were more difficult as a lot of people had big moments.  I think the plays early in this game had a bigger impact because it put the clots in a bad situation forcing them out of their likely gameplan of bringing a heavy dose of Taylor and forcing them into obvious passing situations as the game moved along. It was also difficult to choose because several of the big plays on defense were schemed up as mentioned above.  Not that I won't take W's and schemed up sacks and pressures, but I give more credit to an individual player for spectacular effort in beating his man which is what this list should be about.

2) JRob - This selection was due to the 37 yd scamper for a TD which put us ahead 14 - 0 where he broke a couple of tackles.  If he doesn't break this run, who knows if we close out that drive with a TD or a FG or something else.  It was another great run by a guy coming off an achillies injury which is not something you see much if at all from that type of injury recovery.  If we don't finish that drive with a TD and instead settle for a FG or less, I think that possibly changes the rest of the game, so this play was huge.

1) Josh Allen - Early pressure by Allen and Walker helped us build our lead early as we moved the ball while forcing turnovers and stops on defense.  Allen was a big part of this with a QB hit and FF on the clots 2nd drive that I believe was ruled incomplete but should have been challenged to change the spot.  Nevertheless, Allen continued to bring pressure following the play which forced the clots to eventually punt on this possession.  He then had a sack off a stunt on their 3rd possession which led to a 3 and out.

You could make arguments for RJ, TW, DL, RRH, CK, EE etc..  I just weighted my criteria for early game plays being the most impactful given the flow and landed on JRob and Allen.

NC - Cam Robinson.  Had a holding call which could've been a drive killer, but TLaw converted on 1st & 20 by rolling out to his left to buy time to hit Kirk.  This was on the drive where JRob had his TD run and happened right after the 1st & 20 conversion.  It was a very beneficial series of events after a bad play by Cam which could've derailed things.  Also, Cam got beat by Yan on our first drive of the game.  Yan got pressure on Trevor, but Trevor got the ball out quickly for a completion so it didn't end up mattering.  That said, Cam wasn't egregiously bad like he was at the end of the commies game.

(09-24-2022, 12:23 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: Rj pick was on the first drive of the game, please try again.

Please try reading before soiling yourself.  My comments on the RJ pick were covered by my blaming it on Ryan for a bad throw.  I’m glad RJ made the pick.  It was a good play by him, but it was lobbed up there for him to run and scoop. It wasn’t spectacular effort on his part. Secondly I’m not mad if you have RJ on the list.  But to have anyone but TLaw at the top for individual effort is either not understanding what you just watched or agenda driven trash.  Carry on I guess.

---