ckparrothead
Premium Member
I don't know what is the matter with you guys. The Dolphins just won and it feels like the Houston loss all over again around here.
Everyone's going overboard with all these criticisms. We just won the game by two TDs. We did it in the 4th quarter. Relax. Try shifting gears here. Instead of shouting about penalties, Fiedler, Ricky, the OL, etc why don't we do what we should REALLY be doing right now...calling for the Jaguars fans to come eat some crow and celebrating the best damn defense in the NFL.
The D has allowed 51 points in 5 games! Thats pretty damn good in my book. They've intercepted 10 of the last 120 passes thrown against them. Thats phenomenal! They forced 5 turnovers today and scored a defensive TD. UNBELIEVABLE. The defense is now allowing an average of 10 points a game on the ROAD, with 10 forced turnovers in 3 road games....eh hem, 3 road WINS I meant to say. Oh did I mention thats already 1 more road win than we had all last season?!?!?!?
An ugly win is a win. Like I had been saying before the game, there was a lot going against Miami in this game. Jacksonville looked like they had just settled in with their rookie QB, and he's been playing well. Fred Taylor is healthy and back to asserting himself in the league. Jimmy Smith is back, and last week already showed he is in midseason form despite missing 4 games with suspension. The Jags defense has been playing real well. Miami, does not usually take advantage of opportunities to extend their AFC East lead, and they have only won 4 games in a row twice in the last 7 years. They already dropped a game against a "bad" team, so they were poised to be surprised yet again by another "bad" team. Did I mention that Miami tends to lay a hot stink biscuit on the field whenever they are flying high off one or more huge wins?
Today they proved that they are NOT that kind of team, no matter WHAT you say about whether it was pretty or not. Jacksonville looked pretty good last week and looked pretty good to me today. The scariest thing about Byron Leftwich is that we harried that man all fricking day long, forced hard-fought interceptions with pressure and whatnot, and he kept 'choppin wood' so to speak all the way until it finally all got to him at the end of the freakin 4th quarter. The guy was like Rocky...he sat there and took more of a beating than any QB we've faced this season, he had a ton of bad breaks and yet the guy kept coming at us...until finally, you could see it was just too much at the very end. Thats scary, and Jacksonville should have a bright future with Mr.Leftwich at the helm.
As for us, QB controversy or no QB controversy, this season Miami has shown that any kind of QB controversy will take a backseat to the defense's dominance.
We've got issues. What team doesn't? We don't need to be playing our best football in October or September. Our job in those months is to get the W's and guess what...we're doing just that. Now start serving up the Jags fans some crow and start celebrating this he||a nasty defense before my opinion of Dolfans is forever changed.
Everyone's going overboard with all these criticisms. We just won the game by two TDs. We did it in the 4th quarter. Relax. Try shifting gears here. Instead of shouting about penalties, Fiedler, Ricky, the OL, etc why don't we do what we should REALLY be doing right now...calling for the Jaguars fans to come eat some crow and celebrating the best damn defense in the NFL.
The D has allowed 51 points in 5 games! Thats pretty damn good in my book. They've intercepted 10 of the last 120 passes thrown against them. Thats phenomenal! They forced 5 turnovers today and scored a defensive TD. UNBELIEVABLE. The defense is now allowing an average of 10 points a game on the ROAD, with 10 forced turnovers in 3 road games....eh hem, 3 road WINS I meant to say. Oh did I mention thats already 1 more road win than we had all last season?!?!?!?
An ugly win is a win. Like I had been saying before the game, there was a lot going against Miami in this game. Jacksonville looked like they had just settled in with their rookie QB, and he's been playing well. Fred Taylor is healthy and back to asserting himself in the league. Jimmy Smith is back, and last week already showed he is in midseason form despite missing 4 games with suspension. The Jags defense has been playing real well. Miami, does not usually take advantage of opportunities to extend their AFC East lead, and they have only won 4 games in a row twice in the last 7 years. They already dropped a game against a "bad" team, so they were poised to be surprised yet again by another "bad" team. Did I mention that Miami tends to lay a hot stink biscuit on the field whenever they are flying high off one or more huge wins?
Today they proved that they are NOT that kind of team, no matter WHAT you say about whether it was pretty or not. Jacksonville looked pretty good last week and looked pretty good to me today. The scariest thing about Byron Leftwich is that we harried that man all fricking day long, forced hard-fought interceptions with pressure and whatnot, and he kept 'choppin wood' so to speak all the way until it finally all got to him at the end of the freakin 4th quarter. The guy was like Rocky...he sat there and took more of a beating than any QB we've faced this season, he had a ton of bad breaks and yet the guy kept coming at us...until finally, you could see it was just too much at the very end. Thats scary, and Jacksonville should have a bright future with Mr.Leftwich at the helm.
As for us, QB controversy or no QB controversy, this season Miami has shown that any kind of QB controversy will take a backseat to the defense's dominance.
We've got issues. What team doesn't? We don't need to be playing our best football in October or September. Our job in those months is to get the W's and guess what...we're doing just that. Now start serving up the Jags fans some crow and start celebrating this he||a nasty defense before my opinion of Dolfans is forever changed.
