I refuse to say anything overconfident today The Jaguars are the Jaguars, we are always capable of losing a dumb ass game at home against a bad opponent
Also I recently went through the 2005 season we went 12-4 and we played like 8 backup quarterbacks that year lol. Hell, we played the Rams without Marc Bulger, Isaac Bruce, OR Torry Holt. Didn’t face Ben vs PIT, Tommy Maddox was in. Etc. I was at the 41-14 rout of the Titans on New Year’s Day 2006, but I did not remember that Billy Volek played that game, not McNair. We also almost lost to the rookie Alex Smith 49ers despite the fact he had thrown 10 INTs and 0 TDs up to that point in the season. Peyton Manning’s Colts swept us to win the division at 14-2, even though we held him to 10 points one of those games. Our only victory that was really that tough a matchup was facing the Bengals when Carson Palmer was good and was throwing to Housh and Chad. Byron Leftwich had no business being a playoff quarterback, every game we won he got bailed out by a defense dominating and by Jimmy Smith catching some clutch deep pass cause he fooled everybody at the catch point. I think Lawrence is clearly better than Leftwich… but the fact we aren’t facing Joe Burrow or rapist Watson and are up against 4 losing teams in our last 5 games definitely reminds me of the paper tiger team we had that season lol
That said, Matt Jones was… actually kinda good for a little while? I wonder if he coulda became a solid WR2 if he stayed away from cocaine lol. On paper it was a bad pick, he was a college QB that we picked at 21 overall and switched to WR just cause he was 6’6” and super athletic, but he made some one handed grabs that were nice lol
If they were, Jimmy Smith would be a hall of famer. He was still an elite deep threat with serious speed and ball skills at age 35-36 after getting suspended twice. His career actually ended with two straight 1000 yard seasons, and that was with rookie / second year Byron Leftwich not even a good QB. He wasn’t even close to being washed up. He coulda played till 38-39 like Steve Smith and padded more stats if he didn’t get into legal trouble
We beat the Chad Pennington Jets in 2005 but Pennington had a shoulder strain and missed some time in that game, and we barely won at the END of overtime… because of one the most elite plays Jimmy ever made
I loved reading this post totally out of context of the post before it. I just imagine Grimace hard at work and suddenly just thinking, “you know what. Athletes should be allowed to do cocaine” and sharing that thought with the world lol