The Jacksonville Jaguars

[MusicMan]

With just over 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Blake Bortles was given his first opportunity to write a chapter in his "Legendary Football Moments" narrative. Instead he threw a pic six. This is pretty much what I expected. That play was on him, there was plenty of protection. Hope he improves, but fact is his college experience was not like leading a team to a Major Conference Championship or playing very many Top 10 Teams, and beating them.

The stadium experience is pretty amazing, however, and when the team gets good (and I hope they do) this will be special.

[Downtown Osprey]

Storm Johnson needs more carries moving forward.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

With just over 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Blake Bortles was given his first opportunity to write a chapter in his "Legendary Football Moments" narrative. Instead he threw a pic six. This is pretty much what I expected. That play was on him, there was plenty of protection. Hope he improves, but fact is his college experience was not like leading a team to a Major Conference Championship or playing very many Top 10 Teams, and beating them.

The stadium experience is pretty amazing, however, and when the team gets good (and I hope they do) this will be special.

But he IS writing his narrative.  It would be easy to point fingers but he decided to shoulder it all....

In addition to blaming Bortles for making a poor decision and throw, many immediately blamed offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch's playcalling and his unwillingness to attack the middle of the field.

After the game, however, Bortles said that the original play was a run and that he checked out of it in favor of a pass.

"I checked to it. It wasn't a good check anyway," Bortles said immediately following the game. "I should have stayed with the play that was called, but it just a bad read by me. Allen [Hurns] was right. Worst case scenario, I should have just thrown it over his head and given us a shot on third down."

So what was the play originally?

"It was a run. I just saw guys walk up. It wasn't a good decision. We could have kept the run on and it wouldn't have been a bad play. It would have given us a shot and it's something that I can't make that mistake again and definitely can't check out of play into a pick six."

I'm okay with him being accountable, and with me personally, it buys him a pass until next time. 

If he continues to make the same mistake though.....

[MusicMan]

Would love to see a few more designed quarterback draws, right up the middle, with a nice slide at the end.
He is pretty quick.

[duvaldude08]

I personally enjoyed the game from beginning to end. It was very chippy and agreesive defensely and I like that. I just wish had 3 TD's instead of field goals. As far as Blake, Im neither here or there with his performance. His is a rookie, he is going to be up and down, hot and cold, week and week out. I dont have the expectation for him to come in and save the day. We have a team with massive holes, and the majority of our offensive starters are rookies, or guess with very little experience. Thats not exactly helping either ( AKA Hurns dropping or missing perfectly thrown passes.) But Im not freaking out by any means at this point. These guys have a lof of growing and developing to do. And I always look peyton mannings rookie season, The colts only won 3 games, he completed only 56% of his passes and threw 28 interceptions. But he gradually got better year over year. Everybodys not Andrew Luck. Some guys really need to be developed. Blake has an extremely high ceiling and Im exciting to see him develop.

[thelakelander]

Bortles is still a rookie, so expect a few pick sixes along the way. Still I thought it was a pretty good game. I was initially expecting a more lopsided victory for Pittsburgh.

Storm Johnson needs more carries moving forward.

Ditto.

[funwithteeth]

What is this short memory so many people have? Interceptions/pick 6s mean very little when looking at a rookie year. Peyton Manning had 28 interceptions his first year in the league!

[duvaldude08]

Bortles is still a rookie, so expect a few pick sixes along the way. Still I thought it was a pretty good game. I was initially expecting a more lopsided victory for Pittsburgh.

Storm Johnson needs more carries moving forward.

Ditto.

Storm Johnson is odd. He looked like pure crap in the preseason. But those two back to back runs had everyone in the stadium like "whooooa whered that come from." Out of all of our backs, it seems he may have the best skill set. Todman runs like hes getting ready to fall, then actually does slip most time LOL Toby is a turd, and Robinson is more of a change of pace back. I hope storms turns out good. A ground game will take a  load of bortles right now.

[fsujax]

I was actually watching the game at a little restaurant in Valdez, Ak. It was surprising to see the Jags holding their own. Exciting watching the offense move the ball. Best part the lady behind the counter was wearing a Jag shirt and drinking from a Jag coffee mug. Born and raised Native Alaskan and hard core Jag fan. She told me she started cheering for the team from the beginning. I thought that was pretty cool.

[pierre]

Bortles is still a rookie, so expect a few pick sixes along the way. Still I thought it was a pretty good game. I was initially expecting a more lopsided victory for Pittsburgh.

Storm Johnson needs more carries moving forward.

Ditto.

Storm Johnson is odd. He looked like pure crap in the preseason. But those two back to back runs had everyone in the stadium like "whooooa whered that come from." Out of all of our backs, it seems he may have the best skill set. Todman runs like hes getting ready to fall, then actually does slip most time LOL Toby is a turd, and Robinson is more of a change of pace back. I hope storms turns out good. A ground game will take a  load of bortles right now.

Storm was a spark yesterday. Would love to see him get 10-15 carries next week.

[MusicMan]

Bortles is a Rookie who didn't even play a Senior year!!

I expect lots of pic six's all season long.

Watching Russell Wilson, who we could of had with Brian Anger's pick, makes me want to cry.

[I-10east]

The Onion dissed us, SMH. For me, a definite thumbs down, and a possible pending unsubscribe from youtube.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlf3WVKVeUM&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A

[KenFSU]

The Onion dissed us, SMH. For me, a definite thumbs down, and a possible pending unsubscribe from youtube.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlf3WVKVeUM&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A

Eh, it's the Onion. They've slammed nearly every NFL team, owner, and quarterback over the years. Plus, when you play as terrible as the Jags have for the last two seasons, you can't expect a free pass from the media. At this point, they're only pointing out the obvious. Only way to silence the ridicule is to win a few games. Just glad that the critics have largely moved on from bashing the city and fans.

P.S. I actually found this one from last year to be a little more clever:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/broncos-perfect-season-ends-with-humiliating-win-o,34222/

[I-10east]

The whole "LA could be getting one or two teams" thing is back in the news. Jacksonville isn't mentioned among the possible cities effected. Although the baseless "Rams to LA, Jags to STL" two year old PFT rumor is said often by the moronic troll zombies, sigh...If you listen to sports heads in STL, they question whether the city can even support three pro franchises. The Jags moving crap is idiotic, whether it's Orlando, LA, STL or London... I shouldn't even waste my breath on that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F5I4PypzI0&list=UU-tJmammSraPwI3crnOyTuQ
http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2014/10/3/6901093/los-angeles-rams-nfl-rumors

Anyway back to reality. The obvious cities effected are concerning the LA thing are OAK, SD, and STL. I've looked at the LA situation objectively in the past without rooting interest, and I said all along that the Rams are the leading city for the LA sweepstakes, and it seems like it's still the case. Not to say that SD and OAK don't have their share of major problems.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/05/nfl-believes-its-12-24-months-away-from-a-return-to-l-a/

[tufsu1]

^ the interesting part is that all 3 teams have been in LA before