Jaguars vs Raiders: Winners and losers from Week 16

That is it. That is all-time low

As soon as once more, the Jacksonville Jaguars have embarrassed themselves as a company, this time by the use of a god terrible 19-14 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders.

It was as sloppy and as actually terrifying a show of soccer malpractice that this workforce has put collectively in a protracted, very long time. Virtually unquestionably it was the worst recreation of the Doug Pederson period and shined a red-hot gentle on how far this workforce has fallen.

We now have Brian Thomas Jr. Rejoice. Outdoors of that, there’s nearly nothing to be blissful about when taking a look at this franchise. Not even Santa Claus himself may ship the products to repair no matter it’s all of us noticed on Sunday.

Brian Thomas Jr.

As was stated final week, BTJ principally has a spot saved for himself on the winner’s checklist. In opposition to the Raiders, Thomas had his finest recreation so far. The rookie caught 9 balls for a career-high 132 yards and one landing, his third rating in two video games. Thomas’ 9 catches put him at 73 for the season which broke the workforce’s rookie file set by Justin Blackmon again in 2012. He now additionally holds the rookie file for many receiving yards in a season, 1,087 and counting, and for touchdowns, 9 and counting. Thomas ought to make the Professional Bowl and he appears to be like each little bit of an NFL famous person. At the least we’ve one.

Gamers sounding off

In England, Andre Cisco stated his teammates have been quitting. All of us thought it was far too early to be saying that. Possibly he was proper. After Sunday’s loss, each Brenton Unusual and Dewey Wingard took time of their postgame press conferences to specific how displeased they’re with the state of the workforce. Wingard, who primarily embodies what being a Jaguar is meant to appear to be, regarded and sounded about as worn down as a soccer participant might be. It actually was the saddest factor to return out of Sunday’s loss. The man is meant to be the Energizer Bunny of our workforce and he seemingly was nearly in tears when discussing that exact same workforce. Shout out to the reporters on the scene for getting this nearly three-minute clip. What Wingard says about himself, his coaches and his teammates completely encapsulates what we as followers have all been pondering.

Draft standing

Generally you must lose to win. Proper? With the loss to the previously 2-12 Raiders, the Jags catapulted themselves into the No. 3 draft place. The workforce will want an errant New England Patriots win to safe the No. 2 spot and the primary talent participant off the board (assuming the New York Giants choose a quarterback). It sucks it has come to this, however with a brand new teaching regime and entrance workplace coupled with a man like Travis Hunter, possibly we received’t have to fret about drafting this excessive ever once more! Proper?!?!

LOSERS

Accidents

It didn’t take lengthy for the accidents to mount on the west coast. Simply minutes into the sport, new franchise left sort out Walker Little went down and was in a strolling boot postgame. He’ll miss subsequent week’s recreation in opposition to the Tennessee Titans. Security Darnell savage is in concussion protocol after Sunday with an unknown standing for Tennessee. Rising franchise cornerstone linebacker Ventrell Miller went down with an ankle harm and has a questionable standing transferring ahead. By 12 months’s finish, this workforce will probably be a skeleton crew, sure endlessly on a ship to nowhere. Or possibly it has been that manner for weeks…

Second-year breakouts

By all metrics, Tank Bigsby and Unusual have been having breakout second seasons. Bigsby was on monitor to be the workforce’s new RB1 and Unusual had an admirable day changing Evan Engram final week. Then they each coughed up the ball, and the sport, and put the ire proper again on themselves as unreliable gamers. Bigsby scored to open the sport however managed simply 50 yards on the bottom. Unusual had two catches for 22 yards. Certainly not is that this recreation the tip of both of their careers, but it surely does make you are worried a bit. Simply one other factor so as to add to the checklist at this level.

Teaching

Let’s hold this transient for everybody’s sake: Sunday’s loss is a direct indictment on Pederson and defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen. At this level, Nielsen has been an unlimited mistake and Pederson doesn’t even appear to have a grasp on what or who he’s teaching. This workforce sucks out loud and the gamers have been saying it now for MONTHS but nothing has modified. The Jags will not be talentless. They’ve items, they’ve guys who’ve stepped up. Those who haven’t stepped up are carrying headsets on the sidelines. Someplace in Invoice Belichick’s 400+ web page manifesto, I wager he has some pages on what to not do as a coach. I hope he has massive footage of Pederson, Trent Baalke, Press Taylor and Nielsen proper there on the web page. They deserve it.