Quote:Leaving the stadium after yesterday's defeat, I was not ready or willing to even think of positives after such a heartbreaking loss. How do you lose when you hold Rodgers to less than 200 passing yards and Bortles throws for more than 300? It would have been one of the top 3 memorable home games in Jaguars history had they pulled it out at the end. That being said, there were some signs yesterday to give optmism to the fans. First the negatives:

 

1, No pass rush. Fowler's pre-season gave us false hope that he'd be a huge addition this year. I do think he;ll get much better, but we probably won't see much impact this season. 

2. Running game- Offensive line pass protected well, but Yeldon had little running room.

3. Inability to close the game- Good teams find a way to win games like this and it was there for the taking.

4. Cyprien's missed tackle- He must make those plays, period.

 

Positives:

 

1. Beachum is very solid and may turn out to be one of the best free agents ever.

2. Special teams were excellent, especially the kickers.

3. Julius Thomas is back. Add him to the wide receiving corps and this offense will be hard to stop. Robinson got held all day

    and needs to get those calls.

4. Secondary covered great and Prince was expecially solid.

 

Forecast:

 

Due to the lack of pass rush, this team will end up at 8-8. Combine that with all the youth and it will take 1 more year to make the playoffs, but the future is very bright. DO NOT sell your soul to the devil and pick up Hardy, They will end up regretting it.

First off, we should all be very happy if we can reach 8-8 this season; just consider what a jump in our season record reaching 8-8 would be!

 

First, my 'atta boys'

well done Myers! I've not been a strident supporter, but I will give you credit for doing a good job.

Yeldon did pretty good considering.

for the most part, it seemed to me that the o-line did okay. Bortles ran out of the pocket into pressure even when he had a clean pocket!

ARob.... for putting up with the refs not calling that guy who was interfering with you all afternoon.

the punter ( I don't know his name yet) did an outstanding job with his punts, along with the special teams, pinning the pack deep.

 

now, my 'aw ****

Bortles... why are you running out of a clean pocket? Watch Rodgers and learn dude... and calm down!

O-coach... your play calling at times is highly questionable. For example, that last play.

defensive tackling: back to this...again! I saw multiple times when we hit a running back and did not 'wrap them up'. Result; extra yards.

the defense as a whole just didn't look cohesive.

the refs.... man, the calls in that game certainly appeared to show a bias for the packers.

 

In conclusion, whoever thought this team was 'play off contenders' this season is/was delusional. We're clearly not ready. However, 8-8 is still a worthy goal.

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