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Jaguars win thriller in “Charm City”, stop road loss skid at 13

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The Jacksonville Jaguars looked to break their streak of thirteen straight road losses in a trip to a fellow 2-6 team in Baltimore. And they pulled it off. There was reason to hope they would do just that going into the game. The Ravens were without Steve Smith, and the Ravens pass defense had been one of the worst in the league going into Sunday. Of course, the Jaguars’ defense had been exploitable also. The Ravens, in going for it…

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Jacksonville Jaguars, strafed by NY Jets, tumble to 2-6

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Through twenty nine minutes of the first half, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ offense looked flat. That changed when the Jags got the ball just before halftime, and Allen Hurns ate Antonio Cromartie‘s lunch with two deep catches on one of those two minute drill drives, in which the Jaguars’ offense shines. This put them back in the game; 14-10 deficit, and that touchdown getting some boos from the Jets’ faithful. The first half was mixed. Eric Decker won matchup after matchup, driving…

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In NY, the Jaguars need to be the bad guys … and enjoy it

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The 2-5 Jacksonville Jaguars, despite being three games under .500, have gotten a mini-wave of positive commentary since the London win two week ago. The gist of it: maybe they can actually win the division. Those theories are predicated on several assumptions; primary among them, the Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans, and Indianapolis Colts will continue to flounder. There are those who wonder how much longer before any or all of those teams make a coaching change. One has already; the…

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Jacksonville Jaguars beat Buffalo Bills, avoid epic second half collapse

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Glimmers of hope. That’s what Jaguars fans were reduced to looking for, as the team sat at 1-5 before a London tilt against E.J. Manuel and the Buffalo Bills. Though Jaguars owner Shad Khan gave coach Gus Bradley and general manager Dave Caldwell public assurances that no midseason changes were in the offing, Jacksonville fans haven’t been quite as accommodating to that vote of confidence as the local media. Game 7 looked winnable from the outset. The Bills’ skill player roster, largely…

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Jaguars tumble to 1-5, as season of despair turns tragicomic

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A battle of 1-4 teams in Jacksonville, between the Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars, started off with what one might call optimism. Vegas liked the Jags, for once. One point favorites! Then, once inactives were announced, a seeming reason to take the point. Jaguars running back TJ Yeldon was out. Bad groin. Plodder Toby Gerhart was in. Even against one of the worst rushing defenses in the NFL, seventy snaps of Gerhart didn’t seem like it would “bust a grape…

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Young QBs give Jaguars, Buccaneers hope for future

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Blake Bortles doesn’t have to watch a lot of film to know what Jameis Winston is going through. Young quarterbacks tend to be wildly inconsistent early in their careers, even those deemed to have as much talent and potential as Bortles and Winston. “I honestly haven’t seen a ton (of Winston) … but I do catch some clips every now and then,” said Bortles, the third overall pick in the 2014 draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars. “After going through it…

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For Jacksonville Jaguars, it’s the one that got away

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A different Jags offense surfaced in Indianapolis, at least in the early going, and in it were a lot of the concepts that excited long-suffering fans since the preseason. Use of tight ends on high percentage routes, a crisp command of play action, and going deep when it was there. That was the Blake Bortles people expected to see earlier than a quarter way through the season. And on Sunday, they saw it. at least early on in the game.…

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