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The Jay Gray Blog

Posted: 6:08 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

Bad Jags 

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By Jay Gray

I had a pretty good laugh this morning when I was looking at Wokv’s Facebook page. Last week after the Jags first win of the year I saw people saying the Jags where gonna win the division, get 11 wins, or have no issue making the playoffs, now you look and everyone is calling for Del Rio to be fired and how bad the Jags are. You gotta love when fair-weather fans chime in on a topic they know nothing about. Should anyone really be surprised that the Jags lost so badly this week? You have a team that’s been to two straight AFC Championships vs. a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in years and when was the last time you saw a championship team dump their starting QB just days before the regular season for a guy that had won a total of 1 game as a starter?

Friday on my game preview I talked about the “fluke factor”, its where you have an inconsistent team winning their first game of the season and you don’t know if it’s a fluke or an indication of how the season will go. As of right now it looks like a fluke. Mojo had an ok game with 88 yards but no scores, the Defense came away with two picks and a sack but gave up 32 points, the winner of the flukey award goes to Luke McCown. Last week he did a great job of managing the game and had no picks. This week he threw for a grand total of 59 yards and 4 picks. To put it in perspective when a QB has a great game he may get a perfect passer rating of 158.3(don’t ask me how they came up with that, I have no clue) Luke McCown’s rating on Sunday was 1.8. I think the Jags are actually lucky it wasn’t worse than a 32-3 loss.

Even if the Jags were close to making the playoffs last year, one look at this year’s schedule would show the Jags had almost no shot to make it. 8 games, half the season the Jags have to go up against a playoff team from the year before. Add that to the fact they have a mediocre secondary, horrible wide receivers, and unproven QB, and 2 stars on offense at best, it’s not hard to figure out this was going to be a rough year. Good news is after getting beat so bad against a good team that will put a hault to ticket sales for the next home game so not as many people will see the beat down the Jags get in two weeks against the Saints.

 
 
 

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