Jaguar excuse thread

[Tailgate]

And our everydown best pass rusher. And our best reciever. And our short yardage running back. And his back up. And our nickle corner. That being said, a loss is still a loss.

And our (the Texans) starting running back, and our pro bowl kick returner, and our starting nose tackle, and our starting left Tackle, our starting safety, also our starting guard did not start.... and basically our entire offensive line was all banged up and played pretty hurt per this article.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4285676.html

 

[Hardcore Texan]

Let me tell you all something. I don't buy all this pla hard. You guys played us "hard" when we had no team. We had Troy Edwards and Jermaine Lewis or our WR's. Not to mention Fred didn't even play in the game when you beat us in 2004. Not excuses but Byron had no targets to throw to. So don't bring up the past. If that's the case I could compare the Panthers to the Jaguars, because they beat us in our 1st game as a franchise. That was then, this is now. Totally new teams, this whole play hard thing wasn't even in the Jaguars heads, despite what our old ass Senior Editor might say. We have so many players that weren't on the team in 2004. Sure you are 5-4 against us. Congratulations, but I don't buy into that "play hard" one bit. Out with the old in with the new.

Didn't your team go 9-7 in 2004? and we were 7-9 IIRC. Two of our victories came against you and we handed you two loses. And you still manage 9 W's that season. So I don't buy all this stuff about injuries and no weapons to throw too, yada, yada, yada. Depth is a big part of success in the NFL.

Face it your team was outplayed, that is all. We are division rivals, these games will almost always be battles no matter how we play outside the division. And the Texans always get up to give the Jags a tough game.

There was a lot of complaining by the Jags in 2004 when they got swept, this angle is nothing new. FWIW, every team is dealing with injuries.

This past Sunday was the best we have played as an ENTIRE unit all year (minus the kicking game), the whole team looked much better.

 

[touttail]

Let me tell you all something. I don't buy all this pla hard. You guys played us "hard" when we had no team. We had Troy Edwards and Jermaine Lewis or our WR's. Not to mention Fred didn't even play in the game when you beat us in 2004. Not excuses but Byron had no targets to throw to. So don't bring up the past. If that's the case I could compare the Panthers to the Jaguars, because they beat us in our 1st game as a franchise. That was then, this is now. Totally new teams, this whole play hard thing wasn't even in the Jaguars heads, despite what our old ass Senior Editor might say. We have so many players that weren't on the team in 2004. Sure you are 5-4 against us. Congratulations, but I don't buy into that "play hard" one bit. Out with the old in with the new.

Bobby 119C

 

[wolfscar]

Try it without Fred Taylor or Jones-Drew. Those two combined would be our Domanick Davis. He's on IR now and his career is probably over.

We came in without our starting LT, (I think one of our guards was injured as well), one of our starting DT's, having to start our rookie LB at MLB (for the entire season so far) because the two guys that were supposed to be starting ahead of him are out, one of our LB's just coming off the PUP, our all-pro returner out (he might go on IR soon, he's on PUP right now), one of our starting CB's starting his first game of the season, and others I can't think of off the top of my head. We all have injuries but I don't think we've ever used the "well, we've got injuries" card to explain our losses.

Injuries are not why you lost this game. You lost this game because

1) you looked past us and didn't consider us a threat.
2) your coaching staff didn't pull Leftwich when he obviously shouldn't have been playing.

Right now, on paper, the Jags are the much better team. You should have beaten us. I can't wait to see what happens when we meet again. We'll probably lose but I want to see where our teams are sitting and how we both react to it.

Amen to all that. Every team has injuries and both the Texans and the Jags have a LOT of serious ones. We won because - on the day - we played better, we were better prepared and we wanted it more.