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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
If you look at their entire season Jax holding Buffalo was probably more likely due to Buffalo not taking Jax seriously and/or shitting the bed on the road. Jax is ranked 27th in scoring D at 25.8 ppg and 20th in yardage D at 366 ypg. Shit, Seattle with Geno Smith at QB dropped 31 on them the week before the Buffalo game.
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This team is perpetually flawed at the coaching position(s) and isn't winning jack with these guys in charge. We have a lot of talent, we have some serious super stars, we have the goods to win any game we play. We have a high school JV level coaching staff.
Killing them on the ground, they have ZERO chance of stopping us. We get that holding penalty on I think it was Glow on the long run from JT, and Reich immediately switches gears and we start trying to throw the ball around with basically no success. Was it the first poss of the 2nd Qtr where I think we ran on 1st for 5, and then went incomplete twice in a row for a punt after? If I recall that's when all the mo' just evaporated- dude is a buzz kill as a coach. I really believe he has a problem with not getting chunk plays when expected and just starts deviating from plan trying to find a way to get 30,50, etc... when 4-6 is essentially there every play with this line. Then OF course, of freakin' course, on the goal line he has to be the crafty guy that brings in the 2nd QB and put the real QB out wide. Sooooo tricky! Then of course there is the final off possession for the Colts where the smart play would have been to run it and force them to use their TO's at the minimum, nope not super brainiac Frank, he would "fool" them with the passes instead of running; and we damn near lost as a result! Dude is a genius!
But, that said, the more horrible coach is Ebersuck. As you note, there were a lot of completions left on the field by Lawrence- lot of dudes with space and he just couldn't hit them. The worst of all though, and I admittedly was driving and couldn't watch the final drive, but listening to Venturi, it sounded as though Ebersuck was playing an even softer zone than his ever famous soft serve crap. Venturi was trying to detail that they had two TO's (thanks to Frank being the idiot he is) and that letting them catch and be tackled in bounds isn't doing anything. Further he was livid talking about how these little underneath passes were seeing 8-9, 10 yard gains because the zone was so deep there was no one around the receiver at catch, and how they weren't even doing that in the 1st half, but now, trying to prevent a touch down which would win the game, they were willingly letting them have huge chunks of yards.
In the end, it seems like there is a ton of "contrarian" psychology in this administration. Some times you just have to line up and play smart physical football, these guys really struggle with that basic concept.
Obviously we got the pivotal TO to seal it, and Venturi was astute in calling out how ridiculous it is to basically "PLAN" on getting these TO's vs just playing defense designed to stop someone. So, take the win and move on, but this team is playing from behind from the kick off because of the Reich regime.