Wild Card Weekend Gamethread
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Doug Marrone, not calling out a specific offensive player:
"If you want to continue to keep playing you’re going to have to do a better job."
Edit: source was Andrew Siciliano via Twitter. This copy/paste function confuses me.
"If you want to continue to keep playing you’re going to have to do a better job."
Edit: source was Andrew Siciliano via Twitter. This copy/paste function confuses me.
Yeah, the issue is that Pittsburgh pass defense sucks. However, it's Bortles, so...
You're not the only one guilty of it, but this narrative that Jacksonville "ran all over" the Steelers earlier in the season is overstating things. They ran the ball a lot, but not very effectively. Then they broke a long run when the game was already over.
Take away Fournette's 90 yard TD run, which happened with under 2 minutes left and the game was basically decided, and Jax had 141 rushing yards on 36 carries. That's less than 4 ypc. Also, if you take out that one play, the Steelers outgained the Jags by 150 yards.
The only reason Jacksonville won is because Ben couldn't stop throwing interceptions, and three of them led to Jags touchdowns (two returns and one short field). Jacksonville's offense had almost nothing to do with that victory.
Here are Jacksonville's offensive drives that game:
3 plays, 5 yards, punt
6 plays, 36 yards, punt
8 plays, 47 yards, TD (after an INT)
13 plays, 49 yards, punt
2 plays, 3 yards, INT
3 plays, 0 yards, punt
13 plays, 67 yards, FG
3 plays, 9 yards, punt
3 plays, 98 yards, TD
Unless Ben repeats his performance and once again turns it over a bunch, Pittsburgh is going to crush this team.
It’s interesting that the son of a 6-time Pro Bowl TE didn’t step on a football field until he was a teenager.
I’ve used these stories over the years to dissuade my son from wanting to play too early.
Third time in a season against an opponent.
The Pats won’t see that.We buried this subject pretty deep this week.
Cam looks great.
Brutal to come away with zero there.
Although 14 play, 62 yard drives don't exactly scream efficiency.
Brutal to come away with zero there.
Although 14 play, 62 yard drives don't exactly scream efficiency.
This silver paint on the Panthers' helmets has sparkles in it.
That's all you really need to know about the franchise.
That's all you really need to know about the franchise.
Hey, one game playoff so anything can happen. I just think a lot of people are looking at the final score, Fournette's gaudy stat line, Ben's 5 INTs, and thinking the Jags dominated them. Pittsburgh had a 9-7 lead, with the ball, about halfway through the 3rd Quarter. Then Ben threw pick-6s on back to back to drives and the wheels fell off.
It was a weird game that had a lot of crazy plays that aren't likely to happen again.
I don't have his plus 25 passing figures in front of me, but pretty sure he's not fared well on them this year. An inordinate number of his big passing plays have come on short passes to Kamara.