What was that? I know the answer. You can call and say it.
"It was a Jaguars loss."
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Or the "same ol Jags."
Both are right. A lot has changed, but something just doesn't change. This team apparently can't beat Jake Browning, and they don't know how to close out football games, as evidenced by Sunday's 31-27 loss to the Bengals.
They had it. Devin Lloyd came up with a clutch interception. The NFL win probability shot up to an 86% chance. But that was 14% too much. Now the Jags are 1-1 with the Texans coming to town in Week 3.
Not the spot they should have been in.
After Week 1, we talked about controlling the controllables and stopping the self-inflicted wounds. In Week 1, that was penalties. Fast forward to Week 2. They fixed it, sort of. I mean, they weren't the same penalties. Does that count? Because it was a new problem. In the second quarter alone, they had five illegal shifts. I have a feeling I know what is going to be on the agenda for practice this week.
Now, more of a problem is where is Brian Thomas Jr.? I don't know who that was out there wearing No. 7, but it wasn't BTJ. That might have been Thomas Brian. But whoever that guy was, hopefully, he does like Urban Meyer and misses the plane back to Jacksonville.
OK, that's enough of the bad. It is only Week 2. The sky isn't falling. There is a long way to go, and there are some major bright spots.
If there is a question about whether Bhayshul Tuten is ready for a bigger workload, it has been answered. Tuten was scootin' and scoring. He is explosive. The TD catch and run was great, but he caught a screen pass that he took for 24 yards. That play was a thing of beauty. I don't want to say it, but I will. This is the most explosive backfield the Jags have had since ... 2008 If you know, you know.
But all of the good stuff from the game will get lost in just how bad the fourth quarter was. Three pretty good quarters of football, and it all came unraveled in the fourth. A dropped pass in the end zone. A dropped pass on fourth down and a pass interference call on a fourth down. Those plays can be the difference in a game, and they were for the Jags.
Good teams close out games. The Jags haven't reached that level yet. Maybe soon. Maybe against the Texans. The sooner they find that fourth quarter magic, the better.