Good morning boys, girls, and others and welcome to the World Famous ***Official*** Jaguars Game Day Thread. Today's matchup features an ascending Jaguars team traveling to one of the truly vile places in the NFL, Lincoln Financial Field, home of a pretty good Philadelphia eagles team and their infamous fan base of miscreants. Long known as the mutant offshoot of NFL fandom, the denizens of that stadium are on the record for booing Santa Claus, throwing ice balls at broadcasters, hurling batteries at players, punching horses (yes, really), and for other drunken, boorish behavior so over the top that the city put a jail, courtroom, and judge onsite in the bowels of the old Veteran's Stadium to expedite the weekly list of criminals through the justice system. In short, it's one Nurse Ratched short of being Salem State Hospital. I think the action on the field will be exciting, but the ongoing LivePD episode filming in the stands tends to distract from their games.

On the field we are all excited to the see the 2-1 Jaguars face a stern test against one of the best teams in the NFC. A young Jags group coming off another absolute beat down of an AFC power gets to face a different challenge today. The undefeated eagles team, led by dual threat QB Jalen Hurts and several talented skill players, beat up on the Washington football squad last week pressuring Wentz all day and racking up 9 sacks in the process. Last week the Jaguars defense harassed and hurried the bolts offense into multiple turnovers, booking both an interception and a fumble recovery, bringing their total to 8 on the season and a League-leading differential to +7. With wet and windy conditions expected today both teams will look to extend their defensive dominance on the opposing squad. 

The Jaguars offense, beneficiaries of that outstanding play, has now outscored opponents by a combined 62 - 10 the last two weeks, and new coach Doug Pederson is clearly getting much better play out of Trevor Lawrence than that jack [BLEEP] we had here last season. Lawrence continues to progress with his understanding of the NFL game as his 115. 5 rated, 3 touchdown performance against the bolts earned him AFC Offensive Player of the Week. The running backs continue to power this team as James Robinson and Travis ETN combined for 150 yards and a TD on the ground. WR Zay Jones led the team in catches last week with 11, but he's listed as questionable for today's game. UDFA Tim Jones might see some action this week and many believe he just needs a chance this season to demonstrate the skills he showed during camp and the preseason.

Game time is 1pm and will broadcast locally on CBS47. Conditions are going to be a challenge with 85% chance of rain and winds at 30 mph.

Thoughts, comments, observations, arguments, and snark to follow throughout the day.

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