RolStoppable said:
noname2200 said:
Can anyone do me the favor of explaining why exactly some analysts think the Jaguars are going to be anything but hot garbage again this year? Is it the stats they manage to wrack up due to garbage time starting halfway through the first quarter? Or do they genuinely just mistake Blake Bortles for Ben Rapistburger? |
I guess you could be misremembering last season. You seem to think that the Jaguars offense was all about garbage time, but it was actually competitive in a few of the games the team lost. Those losses were explained by the team having so many young players and thus being too inexperienced to close out games. Bortles and his WR1 and WR2 put up pretty good numbers, and the Jaguars still play in the AFC South where all teams are question marks in one way or another.
I still haven't read up on drafts/trades, so maybe Bortles will have different receivers this year. But if he has the same, I would feel inclined to put them at #2 in the AFC South in my bracket.
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It might just be the games I watched, but he wasn't particularly impressive until the game was wrapping up and his team was down two scores. There was an article I read (paywalled, unfortunately) pointing out that about a fifth of his pass attempts, a fifth of his yardage, and a quarter of his touchdowns came in the final five minutes of the game with his team down by two scores or more. The final results may have been close, but I strongly suspect opposing teams were often playing Prevent Defense more often for him than for many others. I concede though that "garbage time" was probably not the best word to use.
Now, you're right that the team was young, so maybe the team improves. I just wonder if they'll have what it takes to become decent, since the franchise hardly has a history of success. Also, Florida teams tend to default to "Crappy," soooo....
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