(09-28-2023, 07:20 PM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(09-28-2023, 11:13 AM)jaglou53 Wrote: I am very surprised at how many on this Board are already talking gloom and doom. The season is only 3 weeks in and I trust Pederson will get the team to rebound beginning this week. While I never believed that this team had a good enough offensive line and pass rush to defeat the top teams in the AFC, they still should be good enough to win the weak AFC South.

Baalke really messed up by not sufficiently addressing these 2 weak spots in the off-season. Unless he (or a new G.M.) focuses on these positions during the off-season, the Jaguars may permanently waste the good fortune of being able to draft Trevor Lawrence.

Prior experience with this team tends to make one bitterly pessimistic.

I would rephrase that to suspicious of success.  Predictably it has bred a mind set among some that being first to foretell the downfall wins some weird game.   If Baalkie and Peterson can put together a bit of a multiyear run some of that will fade. (hopefully)

As for the game... Tied at 17-17 Desmond Ridder will throw a check down getting the Falcons on the border of FG range as time expires. The Atlanta Head coach will successfully argue his receiver was out of bounds with 1 second on the clock. Replay will agree and the Falcons will attempt a long FG.  The Atlanta kicker will be short and Agnew will run the ball back for a TD.  Jags 23 Atlanta 17.

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