Jacksonville Jaguars Defeat Houston Texans: Jags grow by leaps and bounds

I think it also has to do with the spot. Zac Diles’ knee seems to have been down where he recovered the fumble, which was four yards back from where the ball was spotted. Like you said, rest the defense, kill the momentum, and force officials to review the spot. The latter failed, but the first two definitely succeeded.

You should be a DC political spin master with your explanation of the JDR challenge :-)

yestrerday. I know there is a long way tp go, but that was god start. I give my vote to the offense, because they were the start of the game in the bigger part.

Oh, if we could beat the Titans on Sunday, then it would mean, we could go 3-3 to the bye week (St Louis is a team to BEAT in my opinion, Seattle at home is a high mountain though) and that is more then promising!!!!

Without him the Jags 3-4 scheme is useless

I was not able to follow much of the Jaguars game as my Lions were involved in a nail biter of their own. Thanks for the summary. It is great to hear that the rookies are contributing. I think in the long run it is much better to take a chance on someone who is inexperienced rather than go with the vet who you know too much about.

Lets enjoy this victory for awhile……..at least until Wednesday.

If we had lost, none of the positives would have mattered. We would be ranting about all the shots Garrard took during the game, the defense’s inability to slow down the Texans until the 4th quarter, and the fumble that cost us the game.

Great article, though. I think you hit on all the key points of the game. I love the way the D is playing, Big John & Knighton both look great, as do the LBs. I think Nelson will improve, this is his 3rd D-Coordinator in 3 years. I think losing Mike Smith hurt his development, especially with the failed Gregg Williams experiment last year, and Mel Tucker appears to be the man to turn around the secondary as he is bringing along Derek Cox very nicely.

What a great game, but our defense against the pass is porous as hell.

Did anyone just smile form ear to ear watching that MJD run where they moved the pile 5 yards before it stopped. That was one of my favorite plays from yesterday. I love that stuff.

Just remember, keep your expectations in check. Remember how our D made teams look last year. A bad D can do wonders for the opposing O. Not trying to be a downer, just keep it in check. It’ll look different against Fisher’s Tits.

emerged as another person on offense to fear for our opponents. He was freezing defenders on those reverse plays after he broke the first one off for a big gain. As much as the Phins wore out the Colts with the Wilcat… I think these plays were wearing out the Texans. In the end their defense couldn’t keep up, while our defense actually got stronger. IMO Mike Thomas is looking like a MJD type steal for this years draft… hope I didn’t just jinx it.

Love watching MJD. So funny to see him disappear into the line then emerge from under it and dash down the field.

He is so small and compact that tackling him as hard as hell.

I’m very skeptical of that penalty in the endzone on Walters for pass interference, complete bs call. But that’s not the reason we lost. The defense should have never put us in that position of playing catch up. We lost this game becuase of piss poor defense. In fact, it’s the worst defense in the NFL college system.

Anyway, congrats again. Looking forward to the rematch.

and i see you guys are all feeling pretty good about your win. with that said, i wouldn’t go to far. i dont think yesterday was as much about how far you guys have came, so much as the fact that our defense just needs to get their shit together. besides the fact, our offense dominated you. so i would relax on the superbowl talk… from where i sit, you guys have the same record as us.

The run defense was good and kept Slaton for the most part from regaining his old form. I think Clint Ingram is our most under-rated LB and that Groves is decent in run coverage and blitzing but horrible in coverage, (Saw him do coverage once or twice). The DTs are our best D-Lineman, we got good depth and people who can rotate and contribute. Our De’s for the most part are best as 3-4 OLBS (julius Williams and Groves).

 The playcalls made the offense much better nad give kudos to Dirk for pulling some amazement out of nowhere.

Yes they lost Haynesworth but their replacements are quick gap shooting DTs who are often the ones causing sacks for their team now. I am not sure of his name but number 97 is good and that Jason Jones at the end of the year last year was dynomite replacing haynesworth. Meester and the guards will be tested.

With Chad Pennington going down for the season, and the Bucs benching the person least responsible for their sucktitude, Byron Leftwich.

Mike Thomas can block. And Thomas not being on the field probably also had to do with his timing with Garrard. Timing Thomas probably didn’t have due to his injury. And most of us know that Garrard is a huge timing guy; and that only becomes even more important with a player as small a target as Thomas.

I’m glad you thought of the coach’s challenge the same way I did. It’s funny how often that when a fan thinks a coach is dumb, it’s really the fan that is just ignorant. Generally speaking, fans are only right in their disagreements when they look at things in hindsight. As for not trying to pass on a 3rd and 12 on our 12 probably had to with the fact that we were completely in the game, and trying for an unlikely and dangerous first down just to have to still go nearly the length of the field was not worth the risk. Punt it to live another series.

I really need to throw Mo Williams a bone. The guy played 2 positions in the game without faltering. And he transitioned awfully well to RT especially considering he had to block speedy Connor Barwin as well as Mario Williams, who tried to take advantage of a seeming weakness. I really like Mo. He’s good enough to be starter at many positions and he can do it at a moments notice.
Uche played better, but his performance can be deceiving because he has all the ability. He just needs to play well against blitzes and stunts. It’s the mental side for him. However, the Texans weren’t being very exotic. So who knows if he’s over the hump?

I knew Big Hen could be a terror as a 3-4 DE. He’s definitely looking like a captain now. A captain that is all in.

JDR should be praised for his work with Henderson and for his calls in the game, especially the go ahead fourth down call.

Speaking of DT’s, I thought Stanley played well in Knighton’s stead.
Obviously I thought Ingram played well. Mathis should go to the Pro Bowl, unfortunately I don’t think he will. Revis seems like a lock already.
I think Marcedes is playing well, and he’s scary enough to opposing defenses that he is being double covered now.
Greg Jones did a good job blocking. Though, Jones shouldn’t be carrying the ball any time soon, nor should Jennings in my opinion. I still like Jennings as a pass receiver out of the backfield so that he can gain speed and put his good hands and size to use. But he doesn’t have the burst or vision to run between the tackles. I think we can save MJD some collisions by putting Jennings out there. Besides, he’s a bigger target for Garrard, which is especially important because Garrard isn’t the tallest guy.
Garrard I thought had a good game. Through 3 games he’s only thrown one interception which was in garbage time, and he’s thrown very few questionable passes in general. If Garrard wasn’t a good running QB he would’ve looked a lot like Leftwich has in TB.
One more shout out for Scobee, who is even fired up on the sidelines. You can see one time when the Texans made a late hit on Thomas, I believe, that Scobee was yelling for the refs to throw a flag which they did soon there after. I don’t think there is any doubt that this team is fired up to play.