Well, realistically, there is more opportunity given to young players on a team going through a true full rebuild like the Jaguars than there is on most other teams in the league.  But it's still good to see them showing up on the stat sheet and it could obviously be a lot worse.  

 

So far, this season is going about how I expected it with the exception being the Patriots game.  I expected a better showing than what we got, but considering that the Pats are probably shooting for 16-0 again in the face of the offseason scandal and scrutiny I guess it's not all that surprising in retrospect.

 

The loss against the clots hurts because we did enough to win and should be in the driver's seat for the division right now, but we aren't.  That being said, I expected this year to be more competitive and for this young team to get better as the season rolls along.  The first quarter of the season is no surprise to me.  I do expect this young team to get better before our eyes as we move forward though.  We'll probably win a game or two we aren't supposed to and probably lose one or two more that we should have won, but I think we'll be markedly better by season's end.  

 

After last week, we NEED to win this game this weekend against the Bucs.  Gus Bradley NEEDS this team to win this game this weekend.

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