After watching Thursday night’s game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans it became apparent that Marcus Mariota will not be winning the Rookie of the Year award.
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This huge shift in field position helped set up a Blake Bortles touchdown pass to Julius Thomas with 3:30 remaining in the game.
With a 19-13 victory over Tennessee, Jacksonville jumped back into the thick of the division title race in the woeful AFC South. One week after winning their first road game since Week 13 in 2013, the Jags put together their first winning streak since they won three straight weeks 12-14 that same season.
With Kendall Wright inactive for the Thursday Night matchup and an unreliable Justin Hunter out for the rest of the season with a fractured ankle, I’m not sure what they were expecting.
Ryan, Flacco and Bridgewater all went to relatively good teams and were not asked to attempt more than 500 throws during that time frame. After all, Bortles threw an ill-timed pick in plus-territory and fumbled on a quarterback sneak where you couldn’t really justify reaching for it because, away from the goalline, even a first down wouldn’t have guaranteed that the ball was dead. On the previous play, Hurns appeared to have a clear first down but slid down short of the sticks in order to keep the clock running.
-COACHING: C. The Jaguars’ play-calling was a puzzle, especially in the red zone.
The Titans were in control and had played the cleaner game until 5:50 remained in the game. Receiver Rashad Greene was recently activated from injured reserve, and running back Denard Robinson has been limited by a knee injury thus far. It is just a different game now. Stony Brook’s Carson Puriefoy’s layup with one second left in regulation sent the game into overtime tied at 66.
Allen Robinson caught five passes for 113 yards.
But both teams would get another of those field goals before the half as it closed with a total of 6-6.
“We’re by no means looking at it as if it’s over, by any means, not in this division, it’s not over”, Mularkey said. After a solid game this Thursday night by Blake Bortles and company, the Jags are a half game behind co leaders Houston and Indianapolis. “Always. But I just think when you get in those critical situations and you find a way to pull out [a victory], that shows a sign of maturity”.
This is a must-win for the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the locker room, in our talk, in those, a couple of players said some things to the team that I thought were spot on. He has at least one sack in four consecutive games.
Cornerback Davon House forced and recovered a fumble on the Titans’ next offensive snap, and the Jaguars turned that into a field goal with 2:19 to play. “When we are efficient and playing with the effort that we’re playing with, we are a good football team”. “I’m pretty upset. You go out there and make the mistakes we made and that’s how you lose games”, he said.
Succop and Myers traded field goals again before the end of the second quarter to make it 6-6 at half-time.
Thomas caught five passes for 28 yards in the game.
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Greene had only returned three punts all season prior to Thursday, and he hadn’t seen the field since Week 2. Similarly, he spent most of last season on the practice squad before he appeared in two late contests.
