(01-18-2023, 11:00 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-18-2023, 10:51 AM)carp8dm Wrote: You can tell Staley never built that type of trust with his players during the season.  Bosa lost his [BLEEP] because the entire season was an uncontrolled ride of emotion and reaction.  

Then, you look at how Pederson runs the team.  There's a constant message, every week there is a message regarding how to handle situations.  So when the [BLEEP] hits the fan for the Jaguars, players have a mental solution to those situations.  Instead of reacting emotionally, they can react intellectually.  

I'm not sure Pederson understands that what he does is a PhD masterclass of how to psychologically address stress in a physically strenuous setting...  But damn, it's exactly what he does.

I knew we were going to win this game. Not before the halftime TD. It was right after Lawrence audibled and hit Zay Jones quickly to cut the score down from 30 to 20. I knew it. I [BLEEP] knew it. 

The biggest tell? Justin Herbert's face and reaction on the sideline. You could see it. The concern. The anxiousness. The fear. Even when I looked at Lawrence [BLEEP] up the way he did in the 1st half. He was stoic. Sure, he would get frustrated looking at the tablet and realized, "Yep. I [BLEEP] up."

You just didn't see anybody on that sideline of ours cave into pressure. That's exceptional man. They've done it all year. Week after week. They had to lose close games earlier in the season to learn how to win close games down the stretch when the [BLEEP] really mattered and the play off picture began to take shape. 

Credit to Doug. Credit to Trevor. Credit to everybody else buying into this and going with the flow.

This was exactly when I started getting quiet and crossing my fingers!!  I told my buddies at half time, "If we can cut the lead to 10 by the 4th Quarter, we'll win this game".  I thought I posted it to the board, but I guess I was too drunk at the time!!

But that's what I said.  10 points down by the 4th and we got it!  And then do you remember the play call for the TD to Zay?  I swear, and maybe I'm wrong, but Trevor Lawrence called some sort of audible to get it to Zay!!!  That was the moment!  That TD with like 30 second left in the 3rd was the moment that changed the game.

And then, like you said.  They kept showing Herbert's face throughout the rest of the game.  Dude looked shook!!!  But that's when I knew, too!  We scored that TD right before the end of the 3rd, and it brought us to 10 points behind...

From the point on, I just stood there, or sat there and kept my mouth shut and my fingers crossed and just believed.  And that 4th and 1!!!!  That was the first time I screamed since the 4th Quarter started...  Just sheer pandamonium after that!!!  But you're right, it was the Zay TD that was the one that let me know we had 'em.

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