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The Jay Gray Blog

Posted: 5:36 a.m. Monday, Oct. 3, 2011

Jags Fall To Saints 

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By Jay Gray

After four games to start to get a real feeling on what a team’s strengths and weaknesses are. For the Jags is plain to see that they have a good not great defense and a horrible offense. Remember back when the Ravens won the Super Bowl, they had a great defense and an ok offense but the D was just that dominate for them to win games. That’s not what the Jags have. There defense will be good enough to keep them in games but it won’t win it for them and I don’t care how dominate your D is you won’t win games in this league averaging 10 points a game. Let me put it into perspective after 3 weeks in the NFL the Jags scored a total of 29 points in all their games combined and through 3 weeks in the NFL teams scored 30 or more points in a single game 23 times.

Sunday things went pretty much to form for the Jags. I said all week leading up to the game that you really can’t stop Drew Brees and the Saints offense you have to outscore them. The Jags Defense did about as good as you can expect for any team playing the Saints. They held them to 23 points, picked off Brees twice, and pretty much kept the Jags in the game till the very end. It’s the offense that let them down in this game again. They stayed on their average scoring just 10 points, Mojo had another good day of yards but couldn’t find the end zone, and the receivers were shut out scoring TDs as well. I’ve said it since the preseason; it’s easy to figure out what defenses will do against the Jags this year. Put 8 or 9 guys in the box to stop Maurice, double cover Marcades Lewis, and play 1 on 1 coverage on the wide receivers.  So far it’s worked to perfection. Lewis only has 7 catches, Mojo is averaging almost 100 yards a game but only 1 score, and the receivers have 1 TD combined through the first four games.

Until the team can prove otherwise you will see the same results week after week. This week the Jags have their best chance to win until the bye week, lose and you have a great chance of not seeing another win until November 13th. If that happens it might be just a matter of time until the Jags finally part ways with Jack Del Rio.

 
 
 

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