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Conor Orr wrote

Gus Bradley's defense is the closest it has been to fitting an image reminiscent of the one in Seattle. On the first drive, backed up against their own goal line, the Jags received a big sack by Chris Clemons and a big pass breakup by Poz. Posluszny also had a demoralizing pick a few drives later midway through the second quarter, which should have led to points. If their offense can catch up, look out.

 

The defense SHOULD continue to improve as they get healthy on that side of the ball.  Not having a healthy Marks out there hurts this defense significantly. 

 

Quote:I don't know about huge but it is something...

 

The one thing I'm still trying to reconcile/figure out is why did we abandon the run so soon. Among everything else that contributed to this trainwreck of a showing, I personally think this was likely the most harmful. There is no justifiable reason, at this point in time, that BB should be throwing the ball 40 times per game imo. 

 

The mantra all off season as that they were going to bring balance to the offense.  It almost looked like someone swapped play books from the preseason, and we were calling Jed Fisch's plays yesterday.  No TE involvement at all, and we ditched the run when the Panthers best defensive player went out with an injury.  Made zero sense.

 

Quote:That play where Greene sustained the concussion was garbage and I couldn't believe it when he made that throw.  The Panther defense was taking off lineman's helmets and jumping routes and that was a play call?  They got the kid killed.

 

Bortles hung a couple of guys out with some of his passes yesterday, and I think he had it in for Greene because there were at least 2 passes including the one that he got hurt on where he was put unnecessarily into harms way. 

 

Honestly, the play calling yesterday on the offense reverted.  We thought we were just getting a vanilla play book in the preseason, and that they'd open things up from a much better looking offense in the meaningless games, and instead we were treated to what you'd expect to see in the first practice game of the year.  It was bizarre.

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