Jaguars run the life out of the Titans

by Alfie Crow on Dec 5, 2010 6:13 PM EST in Jacksonville Jaguars Post Game

The first match up between the Tennessee Titans and the Jacksonville Jaguars featured one team straight up dominating the other. Today's match-up in Nashville displayed the exact same thing, but the roles flip flopped. From the start of the football game, the Jacksonville Jaguars completely dominated the Tennessee Titans in virtually every way possible. The Jaguars offensive line straight mauled a banged up Titans defensive line.

A week after getting beat up by Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson, Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan once again got beat up by the Jaguars rushing attack, all day long. The Jaguars continuously ran at Finnegan and Finnegan did nothing by shy away from contact. On one particular play, he had an easy tackle on Greg Jones, but when Jones lowered his shoulder, Finnegan turned into a bull fight an "O'lay'ed" Jones allowing him to get a few more yards.

All game long Maurice Jones-Drew gashed the Titans defense all game, rarely going down on first contact. The Jaguars offensive line simply dominated the Titans defensive line, and Jones-Drew obliged by gaining 6 yards a clip ending the day with 186 yards on 31 carries. The 186 yards on the day was the most rushing yards Jones-Drew has had in his career. Even back up running back Rashad Jennings got in on the action with 44 rushing yards on 10 carries, including an 11-yard touchdown run on 4th and 1 after a Michael Griffin missed tackle.

For the most part, the Jaguars didn't even really need David Garrard today, who quietly simply did what little was asked of him, completing 15 of his 19 passes for 126 yards. Most of it was on short passes and screens, which is all the Jaguars needed today. They simply dominated Tennessee up front and didn't need to throw the football.

Not enough can be said about how badly the Jaguars offensive line outplayed the Titans defensive line today. It was a run blocking clinic. Along with the offensive line, the efforts of Greg Jones, Zach Potter, Marcedes Lewis, and Zach Miller all contributed heavily to the domination.

The football Gods looked down on the Jaguars today and smiled as they won 17-6. Maybe they'll smile on them some more right now, as the Dallas Cowboys currently lead the Indianapolis Colts 27-14.

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That was Jaguar football at its best

You can't reason with unreasonable people.

by JagsAlex87 on Dec 5, 2010 6:22 PM EST reply actions

I 100% agree

I’m so glad Gene not cut Vinnie in September because of his high salary. Lageman was right he is the best option at Guard; and he (and MJD) playing in ‘God mode’ lately!

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by Zoltan from Budapest on Dec 5, 2010 6:25 PM EST up reply actions

I enjoyed the game.

My only complaint – they’ve got to finish stronger in the 2nd half. I think this team could be very very dangerous in the playoffs, but they won’t have much of a chance to do any damage if they cannot continue to press the gas well into the second half.

by Slvrgun on Dec 5, 2010 6:26 PM EST reply actions

I completely agree

they’ve scored only 3 points in the 2nd half of the last 2 games conbined – costing us a big L in a game that we had control of.

Today was awesome – but lacking the ability to put teams away is a condern,

by OGN on Dec 5, 2010 8:41 PM EST up reply actions

i dont think so

if we wanted to on two of those possesions in 2nd half we could have kept going easily like it wouldve ben 2 fourth n 1s we wouldve got and the final knee we wouldve gone in too so i think we really probably had another 2 or 3 td’s today we just played it safe OGN

by harveyismyboy on Dec 6, 2010 2:17 AM EST up reply actions

Colts now took the lead via ST

Yeah NFL is getting crazy….

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by Zoltan from Budapest on Dec 5, 2010 6:31 PM EST reply actions

i enjoyed the game a lot too..

LOVED watching our run game destroy them, our defense was clutch(even though they had like 14 missed catches lol)

by FgallosJAGS on Dec 5, 2010 6:49 PM EST reply actions

we just caught a break

colts got a dumb penalty on boys field goal try, 3 more downs to score a td for boys..

by FgallosJAGS on Dec 5, 2010 6:49 PM EST reply actions

if we win the division, jim caldwell will get fired..

by FgallosJAGS on Dec 5, 2010 7:28 PM EST reply actions

FACT: JAGUARS WILL WIN THE DIVISION IF THEY WIN THE NEXT 2 GAMES!!!!

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by Zoltan from Budapest on Dec 5, 2010 7:33 PM EST reply actions

in total control of our own destiny - quite correct

it’s all right there for us – can we TAKE IT!

by OGN on Dec 5, 2010 8:50 PM EST up reply actions

I just don’t agree about what people are saying about the second half. They were moving the ball well and taking time out of the clock, had we converted those FGs it would have looked much better…also not counting that 4th and 1 in which we should have kicked the FG and Jack decided to go and we lost the ball. The second half was fine, we just weren’t lucky.

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by Hellveto on Dec 5, 2010 7:42 PM EST reply actions