Ben Arthur
AFC South Reporter
After the Jaguars’ humiliating home loss Sunday to the 49ers, the worst offensive showing of the Doug Pederson era in Jacksonville, tight end Evan Engram acknowledged a reality about the team’s offense.
“It’s just the stuff we’ve been getting away with finally caught up to us,” Engram said, via News4JAX. “We’ve been turning the ball over and our defense has been bailing us out, and then we’ll show flashes and score points when we need to and get out with wins. And today, it caught up with us. So we gotta fix that.”
Nine games into the season, this just may be what Jacksonville’s offense is in 2023.
And that’s not to say it’s the disastrous product it put on the field last week in a 34-3 loss. It’s to say we should no longer be gauging this offense based on the expectations we had for it in the offseason. Back then, we looked on paper and saw a franchise quarterback in Trevor Lawrence — entering his third season, the second with Pederson — surrounded by top-level playmakers (Christian Kirk, Engram, Calvin Ridley, Travis Etienne Jr.) and an offensive line filled with high-paid players and top draft picks.
Against San Francisco, all phases faltered for Jacksonville. But the macro theme of this season has been that the offense could be an Achilles’ heel to the team’s hopes of a deep playoff run. Even in the three games in which they scored more than 30 points (Weeks 1 and 6 vs. Indianapolis, Week 7 vs. New Orleans), the Jags had a combined five giveaways. Whether it’s the playcalling of offensive coordinator Press Taylor (he’s the full-time playcaller this year after calling parts of games last season), execution, turnovers in scoring position or all of the above, there are things that this offense has shown in all games — wins and losses — that are concerning.
The Jaguars offense has the second-fewest accepted penalties (44) and is just above league average in scoring…
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Publish date : 2023-11-16 22:13:29
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