Jacksonville Jaguars Score A Touchdown … Really! (Video)
By Phil Watson
The Jacksonville Jaguars are the lowest scoring team in the NFL this season, so when they find the end zone it’s cause for uproarious celebration.
Touchdown, Jacksonville Jaguars!
No, really. We didn’t make this up. Seriously, the Jacksonville Jaguars scored a touchdown and the universe didn’t break or anything.
Trailing 10-0 late in the first half at home to the Tennessee Titans, the Jaguars put together an 11-play, 80-yard drive (a scoring drive, too?), capped by Blake Bortles’ 4-yard touchdown pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis.
But have no fear, NFL fans. Even with the long touchdown drive, Jacksonville’s offense slowly accumulated 91 yards of total offense in the first half.
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That would be 16 yards in addition to the 75 gained on the drive (Jacksonville got 15 yards via penalty and gave 10 of them back, leaving a net of 75).
Bortles, playing despite a sprained foot, is not lighting up the skies with his long aerials—going 9-for-15 for 52 yards in the first half.
On the other side, Charlie Whitehurst is 11-for-16 for 142 yards and a touchdown. Yes, Clipboard Jesus is playing like a real quarterback (suddenly a little more worried about the whole broken universe thing).
Jacksonville only had the ball for 9:52 in the first half, compared to 20:08 for the Titans.
The winner of this game will improve to 3-12 and, if it’s Tennessee, will clinch third place—woo HOO!—in the AFC South. The Titans won the first clash of about-as-far-from-titans-as-one-can-get 16-14 in Nashville on Oct. 12.
That was Tennessee’s last victory—the Titans have lost eight straight since.
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