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Jacksonville Jaguars vs Tennessee Titans: A Post-Mortem

 

The season started off to a shall we say, unwanted start. Despite a well played game by Special Teams and Defense, injuries to the offensive line reared their ugly head time and time again.


Passing Offense:
Garrard put up good numbers despite almost no real protection. He went 23/35 for 215 yards with 1 TD and 2 INTS. The two INTs are definetly a concern, however, how much of that was a result of constantly being hit and shoved around.

Grade: C-

Rushing Offense: Wait we had one, the stats straight from SI.com are as follow

Taylor 9 attempts 18 yards

Jones Drew 5 attempts 13 yards


THIS IS PATHETIC! I didn't see a run beyond a yard unless Fred or MJD had to break half a dozen tackles. Hopefully Shack Harris is on the phone with every free agent offensive lineman with a pulse.

Grade: F--


Passing Defense: Great effort today up until the idiotic call my Williams to blitz and led to the big play on the screen play. Young only threw for 110 yards and the defense got 2 picks.

Grade:B

 

Rushing Defense: The Titans spread the field to run and did it effectively. Chris Johnson used his speed effectively and Reggie Nelson made an outstanding open field tackle at one point that kept Johnson for going all the way.

Grade:C


Special Teams: Like the Passing defense, great all day until the very end. Witherspoon gives us a viable threat to go all the way. Podlesh did his job well today aswell. However, the miss/not missed kick by Scoobee and the failed onsides kick mar the effort.

Grade: B

Coaching: I actually thought the coaches did a good job with adjusting and doing what was needed. We needed to throw often and towards the second half we begun to slow Johnson down somewhat.

Grade: B-

Overall: It is desperately apparent we need offensive lineman. The unit has been decimated with injuries and the Titans D-Line shoved them around like it was nothing. Hopefully things are rectified by the time we go to Indianapolis.

Grade:D

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Ummm...

You could see it coming when the entire O-line practically went down all at once. Garrard did OK, Defense did OK, special teams, OK, O-line protection, BAD!!! It was talked about during pre-season and we just saw it LIVE in the first game of the year. If this is not corrected, it’s gunna be a looooong season. Go Jags……. At least the Texans lost so we have some company at the BOTTOM of the division.

by jagsfanbrunell on Sep 7, 2008 7:37 PM EDT reply actions  

This game wasa blowout except

we had zero offense. Except for scoring points, the Jaguars blew Tennessee away. Average starting position was tremendous. Vince Young crying on the bench in the third quarter. The Titans reduced to running every play just to prevent a turnover. This was a blowout.

Except we had no offense, no offensive line, no running, no receivers, no scheme, no plan, and worse of all, No Maurice Jones Drew!. It was horrible on offense but don’t take away how good everything else was.

by Tkopa on Sep 7, 2008 7:46 PM EDT reply actions  

That first line is golden

Yet terribly stupid at the same time.

by furrycolt on Sep 7, 2008 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

How good?

How good everything else was? Special teams got us tremendous field position and we squandered time and time again.

The running is great affected by the O-line performance. It all starts with the o-line.

There were bright sides though. VY was hurried often. Matt Jones actually looked like a receiver out there. Troy lost a few, but he was fighting for the ball all the way to the ground. Finnegan is just too damn good. And don’t forget watching Harvey have the presence to put hands on the ball when it hit him in the chest.

That said, I wish I would have been saying that about preseason and not the first game. Oh well, remember last year. We’ll pull it together. Sometimes a smothering Defense will make your O look very dumb. We do it every year to other teams. It was our turn today.

by Pyrofish on Sep 7, 2008 8:25 PM EDT reply actions  

Looking forward to Buffalo...

Best thing about today is that there are 15 more games to be played. I hope next weeks home game will be a rebound game for the Jags. The only question now is “who?” Who will be on the O-line. I think we have lost everyone!!! Dennis Norman can’t do it alone. I’m still glad it’s football season.

On another, much more important note, I would like to mention that my family is still praying for the recovery of Rich Collier. All thoughts and prayers remain with him. Get well Rich!

by jagsfanbrunell on Sep 7, 2008 9:51 PM EDT reply actions  

AFC South

Looks like what they say is true, “misery loves company.” With the Texans and Jaguars loosing today, and the Colts down 15 to 6 to the Bears at halftime, The AFC South race could be pretty interesting this year.

by jagsfanbrunell on Sep 7, 2008 10:07 PM EDT reply actions  

Sunday's sorry excuse

This looks like a continuation of the sorry play we saw in preseason. The Titan D was constantly playing 8 and sometimes 9 in the box. They took away the run very effectively (get used to seeing this by other teams by the way). Our O line is weakened by the Meester injury and Barnes just doesn’t cut. The O line was absolutely physically dominated yesterday. Of course, our complete predectability on offense really helped them out also. I thought the play calling was terrible as well.

Receivers – we don’t have play makers on the outside and it shows. Several of the 7 sacks were due to receivers not being able to break open and Gerrard holding the ball to long as a resut.

QB play wasn’t very good. Gerrard needs to get the ball out faster, if nothing’s there, come back and fight another play. The fumble was absolutely inexcusable as was the complete lack of production considering how many times we had the ball in Titan territory. Give Tenn a lot of credit, they played great defensively, but I also think a lot of our offensive shortcomings were exposed this week.

Defense – overall a fair effort, but only fair. As long as the Titans were playing their second best QB (Vince – I’ll never be an NFL passer) things were going fairly well. Run D wasn’t as good as it could have been and we missed several tackles. D line still can’t generate QB pressure on thier own and scheme was the only way to get QB pressure. Of course, that blew up in our faces in a critical point in the game when Tenn started playing their best QB (Collins). He just promptly came in and marched them strqaight down the field for a score.

Special teams – The return game was outstading and set us up with beautiful field positioon. Shame that was squandered. Missed FG really hurt .
Coverage teams did a good job.

We can expect more of the same going forward. This Ain’t the year! I know it’s only one game – but this team is not as good as last year’s team and our schedule is much much more difficult than last year’s schedule. I don’t want to hear about Porter coming back either. He’s never proven to be a number 1 receiver and until I SEE IT, I’m not buying it. He had a couple of good years in Oakland as a number 2 playing opposite Moss. Last time I checked, we don’t have anyone who could hold Moss’s jock strap.

I know this was a harsh review, but it’s accurate.

by OGN on Sep 8, 2008 7:49 AM EDT reply actions  

Panic Button!! Panic Button!!!

lol, I seem to remember everyone freaking out last year when this exact thing pretty much happened.

Barnes actually did well. How many times did you hear “Kyle Vanden Bosch”? That’s who Barnes was blocking. Vanden Bosch had 1 sack and 2 tackles. How does that equate to “Barnes just doesn’t cut it” when Barnes was all by his lonesome most of the day? The rest of the line was helping the back-ups “try” to keep Haynesworth out of the backfield. He had 2 sacks and 3 tackles, but he was wailing on David all day. He was up against the right side line, which was loaded with back-ups.

Getting sacked 7 times and 2 interceptions that were just damn good plays on Finnegan’s part, do not a pathetic season make. A pathetic game yes, but not a season. And, this won’t be popular, but if you’ll recall, last year when we beat the Titans, Haynesworth was out with an injury.

Sometimes you just have to give credit where it’s due, the Tit’s D is a beast.

Just look back at all the really good teams we’ve beat in the past several years and the sportscasters said “Wow, looked really bad. They’re going to have to step it up to be contenders!” Didn’t we all say, “Hold up their talkin’ head! It wasn’t that they sucked, it was our smothering Defense that made them look silly! Where’s our respect?”. Put yourself on the Titan’s fan’s shoes, and maybe you’ll see it.

This is still a very good team. Only time will tell if it’s the team we hope it is. Just don’t panic. The Titans are to us what we are to Pittsburgh. We have Pit’s number, and the Tit’s have ours…

No more excuses, now bring on Buffalo!!

by Pyrofish on Sep 8, 2008 9:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

should have said

Just look back at all the really good teams we’ve beat in the past several years and the sportscasters said "Wow, so-and-so looked really bad. They’re going to have to step it up to be contenders!" Didn’t we all say, "Hold up their talkin’ head! It wasn’t that they sucked, it was our smothering Defense that made them look silly! Where’s our respect?". Put yourself on the Titan’s fan’s shoes, and maybe you’ll see it.

by Pyrofish on Sep 8, 2008 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

On a Lighter note

We made the Onion ;-) Before you freak, realize that we are just blades of grass blowing in the wind, and pontificate on how our lives could possibly be changed by the flip of a metal disk every Sunday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pre_game_coin_toss_makes?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

They get pretty existential here, so take it easy if you don’t understand philosophy.

by Pyrofish on Sep 8, 2008 9:23 AM EDT reply actions  

Questions?

Why was Walker out?
When is Porter gonna play?
How will they fix the O-Line?
Why didnt we get a sack?
Why all the bad play calling?
Did Q. Groves even play?
What else can happen?

Could someone please shed some light on these questions for me?

by JagSoldier on Sep 8, 2008 10:35 AM EDT reply actions  

Groves...

Was in on a first down that I saw, which was interesting.

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by River City Rage on Sep 8, 2008 3:10 PM EDT reply actions  

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