Quote:  Absolutely.   One great aspect of sports is regardless what happened previously,  there are new opportunities.   The off-season and summer sell hope.  

And then fall and winter come and kick most of us in the ol' berries. 

 

As far as the refs being against this team, I doubt that's the case.  However, I do think that there does tend to be a certain bias when it comes to some teams vs. a team like the Jags.  There are definitely calls we're not going to get that some of the league darlings will almost every time.  The same is true for drawing flags.  It was clear early in the season for the first couple of games that the refs had made the conscious decision to stick it to the Jags with a truckload of horrific calls.  When you've got the league office agreeing that 16 calls were blown in a single game, that's a problem.  That goes beyond market bias and is potentially a sign that officiating has hit rock bottom.

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