Comcast Presents: The Jaguars not so Comcastic Week 8 Red Zone Performance

by Jonathan Loesche on Nov 2, 2009 5:23 PM EST in Post Game Comment 9 comments

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The Jaguars put up a giant goose egg in the Red Zone this week. The Jaguars did not get within the Titans twenty yard line unless it was Maurice Jones-Drew crossing it in route to one of his two long touchdown runs. In fact, it took the Jaguars almost thirty eight minutes to make it into Titans territory not counting Jones-Drews' two runs.

The Jaguars had a grand total of 49 plays on offense and were doubled up by the Titans in time of possession. The even more concerning stats is that when you take the two big TD runs, the Jaguars averaged an abysmal 3.6 yards per play. To put that into perspective, the Oakland Raiders have the worst offense in the league and they still manage to get four yards per play.

However, what bugs me the most is that everyone is coming down on Dirk Koetter for the game plan he put together against the Titans. Tennessee had easily the worst pass defense in the league, and the Jaguars ran a similar scheme to what they ran against the Titans in Week 4.

While there were certainly some calls that made me shake my head (Rashad Jennings out of the shotgun on 3rd and 3 anyone?), the Jaguars devised a game plan that had until yesterday managed to torch the Titans defense every week.

The difference between that game and yesterday was the play of the offensive line. The line was rock solid at home, only to collapse on itself yesterday in Nashville. The Titans registered four sacks and constantly had David running around or on his back.

With the exception of Jones-Drew's two plays, the offense was terrible all around, no matter what. I hate to assign blame anywhere, but I agree with Terry that the offensive line was the root cause of the offense's struggles Sunday.

-Jonathan Loesche

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So I'm assuming no one challenges my observations?

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by Jonathan Loesche on Nov 2, 2009 10:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

There is nothing to challenge here John

I’m not a “throw the guy under of the bus” thing; but Koetter blew this one. The entire game. IF I see that my QB is not in the best shape-plus he doon’T have the time-then I handle the ball to my biggest weapon. After MJD scored that 2 TDs; he should give them the ball 75%!
He outcoached Fisher on Week 4.
Fisher took a big revenge now.
End of the story!
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Nov 3, 2009 8:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

We're all just sucked dry right now...

Despite low expectations this year, we’ve all held on to a glimmer of hope. Yesterday it all dried up.

It wasn’t just the line. Plenty blame to go around…

What the immediate solution? That’s the million dollar question…

by LuckyPriest on Nov 2, 2009 11:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I do not challenge, you are spot on. With the talent level of this draft class, we would be stupid not to change to a coach who is good at developing players even if it takes 3 or 4 years, I just want to see progress. Kennedy Pola should be retained as RB coach. and please hire a guy who will give MJD more than 8 freaking carries. Koetter should be cut today and let mike tice run the offense. I am just watching the falcons and thinking that could be us if we kept Smitty. :(

by kyjagsfan on Nov 2, 2009 11:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

MJD only had 12 carries in the first game

and we were all happy about that.

The line has been our problem all season and when they’re really bad, so is this team.

by pksiv on Nov 3, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Bad Management

Proper team management begins with personnel maintenance, financial constrain and self control. Drafting up and big guaranteed contracts is a recipe for disaster.

“Rebuilding” points to poor management.

The consistent teams recognize value and plan for the future. I’ll betcha a corn-dog Bill Belicheck would trade Brady for a few prime picks. Value trading without emotion = success.

by LuckyPriest on Nov 2, 2009 11:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

The O sucked

You are correct. Apart from 2 Mojo runs and a few good pass completions, they did nothing. The inconsistency of the o-line seems to translate to very inconsistent offensive production (wow, that’s a suprise!). IF the o-line had played like that did in the home game, the gameplan would have been just fine. But, given how badly they were playing, I think the play calling should have been different.

Weird thing about the Rams game: for MOST of that game, the offense just plain sucked. It was one of those weird games where you look at the stats at the end of it and think “wow, we put up a lot of yards… how did that happen?” And, despite throwing for 300+ yards, David was under massive pressure for most of that game too. Despite all the offensive talent, our O-line is struggling.

On the D side of things, I think we suffer from a massive lack of depth. That secondary on sunday was appalling. Would the game have been different without Nelson at CB and Russel at safety? Hell yes. We probably would have lost anyway, but not like we did.

by KeithG on Nov 3, 2009 7:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Just gotta say its a rebuilding year

I get so pissed during games, but then when you think about it, THIS IS WHAT WE EXPECTED. It must take 3-4 years to be good again, so here’s to praying that Gene hits on every single one of his draft picks for the next four years, because God knows thats what this team needs. No new coach or anything like that. We could do without Koetter because of his inconsistency but this line is perhaps what bugs me most. Just hard to be patient sometimes.

by harveyismyboy on Nov 3, 2009 8:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs