Jaguars vs Steelers Matchup Historical past: The Good, the Dangerous, and the Ugly

Jacksonville Jaguars soccer is again! The Pittsburgh Steelers will make the journey from Duval North to Jacksonville to face off towards the Jaguars on Saturday. The Jags and Steelers have performed one another 28 occasions, and the Jaguars presently lead with a 15-13 file. Let’s take a stroll by way of franchise historical past to have a look at the nice, the unhealthy, and the ugly from the staff’s collection towards the Steelers.

Beating the Steelers twice throughout the identical season in 2007/2008 and 2017/2018

Week 15: at Heinz Discipline on December 16, 2007
Remaining rating: Jaguars 29 – Steelers 22
Attendance: 58,793

Ernest Wilford, Reggie Williams, Dennis Northcutt, and Fred Taylor scored touchdowns. David Garrard accomplished 17 out of 33 tried passes for 197 yards. Fred Taylor led the staff with 147 dashing yards, and Dennis Northcutt led with 81 receiving yards. Maurice Jones-Drew averaged 18.50 yards in kickoff returns. Adam Podlesh punted 5 occasions for 145 yards. Josh Scobee made the tried subject objective. Brent Hawkins registered two sacks.

AFC Wild Card: at Heinz Discipline on January 5, 2008
Remaining rating: Jaguars 31 – Steelers 29
Attendance: 63,629

Maurice Jones-Drew scored two touchdowns, and Fred Taylor and Rashean Mathis scored one landing. David Garrard accomplished 9 out of 21 tried passes for 140 yards and led the staff with 58 dashing yards. Maurice Jones-Drew led the staff with 43 receiving yards and averaged 96.00 yards in kickoff returns. Dennis Northcutt averaged 10.33 yards in punt returns. Adam Podlesh punted 4 occasions for 200 yards. Josh Scobee made one out of two subject objective makes an attempt. Rashean Mathis had two interceptions. Derek Landri had one interception and one sack. Jeremy Mincey, Bobby McCray, Rob Meier, John Henderson, and Paul Spicer every registered one sack.

Week 5: at Heinz Discipline on October 8, 2017
Remaining rating: Jaguars 30 – Steelers 9
Attendance: 66,237

Leonard Fournette scored two touchdowns. Telvin Smith and Barry Church each had interceptions that resulted in touchdowns. Blake Bortles accomplished eight out of 14 tried passes for 95 yards. Leonard Fournette led the staff with 181 dashing yards, and Marqise Lee led with 49 receiving yards. Tommy Bohanon averaged 14.00 yards in kickoff returns. Brad Nortman punted 5 occasions for 190 yards. Jason Myers made the tried subject objective. Tashaun Gipson had two interceptions, and Dante Fowler Jr. recorded one sack.

AFC Wild Card: at Heinz Discipline on January 14, 2018
Remaining rating: Jaguars 45 – Steelers 42
Attendance: 64,524

Leonard Fournette scored three touchdowns. T.J. Yeldon, Telvin Smith, and Tommy Bohanon scored touchdowns. Blake Bortles accomplished 14 out of 26 tried passes for 214 yards. Leonard Fournette led the staff with 109 dashing yards, and T.J. Yeldon led with 57 receiving yards. Corey Grant averaged 22.00 yards in kickoff returns. Brad Nortman punted 4 occasions for 131 yards. Josh Lambo made the tried subject objective. Myles Jack had one interception. Yannick Ngakoue and Marcell Dareus each recorded one sack.

Successful their first dwelling sport

Week 6: at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium on October 8, 1995
Remaining rating: Jaguars 20 – Steelers 16

Cedric Tillman and James Stewart scored touchdowns. Mark Brunell accomplished 17 out of 30 tried passes for 189 yards and tied James Stewart with 44 dashing yards. Willie Jackson led the staff with 94 receiving yards. Jimmy Smith averaged 20 yards in kickoff returns. Mike Hollis made the 2 tried subject targets.

Successful their first Monday Night time Soccer sport

Week 4: at Alltel Stadium on September 22, 1997
Remaining rating: Jaguars 30 – Steelers 21
Attendance: 73,016

This sport was the primary look for Mark Brunell after a knee harm, and he accomplished 24 out of 42 tried passes for 306 yards. Natrone Means, Jimmy Smith, and Chris Hudson scored touchdowns. Natrone Means led the staff with 40 dashing yards, and Jimmy Smith led with 164 receiving yards. Mike Hollis made three out of 5 tried subject targets. Aaron Beasley had an interception. Brant Boyer and Tony Brackens recorded sacks.

Fred Taylor’s Week 12 efficiency in 2000

Throughout his nine-game stretch of registering not less than 100 yards a sport, Taylor placed on a memorable efficiency together with his 30 carries and three touchdowns. Fred Taylor’s 234 dashing yards had been probably the most yards recorded by an opponent in Three Rivers Stadium.

“They misplaced their self-discipline. We had a few display screen performs in there that ended up, with the blocking, being good touchdowns. I didn’t comprehend it was going to be a special occasion.” – Fred Taylor

“That was one sport when the play got here in the place I used to be pondering, ‘I hope it’s to Fred. I’ve obtained my man and Keenan’s obtained his man. We’re going to make the block and Fred’s going to do harm.’ He was capable of have a profession sport that sport.” – Jimmy Smith

Rashean Mathis’s interception in 2005

A fourth-quarter subject objective by the Steelers pushed the week six sport into additional time. Through the Steelers’ second possession, they ran the identical curl route the staff had executed beforehand within the sport. Mathis recalled telling himself that in the event that they reran the play, then he would decide off the ball. Pittsburgh quarterback Tommy Maddox’s move was intercepted by Mathis for a 41-yard game-winning walk-off landing.

“It’s the final word cornerback dream, however within the second, I used to be simply ecstatic to assist my staff win.” – Rashean Mathis

“To see that pick-six on the finish … it’s wonderful how on the finish of video games like that, your feelings change so shortly, from one aspect to the opposite. You’re about able to go on the market for offense. You’re excited to get on the market and have an opportunity to win it. You’re nail-biting, praying as a result of you don’t have any management and also you’re watching the protection. Rapidly, there’s a fast play, pick-six and the sport’s over and also you win. There’s no feeling like that.” – Brad Meester

David Garrard’s run through the 2007 AFC Wild Card

With 2:38 left on the clock, quarterback David Garrard ran for 32 yards on fourth down from the Steelers’ 43-yard line.

“It was just a little little bit of satisfaction in me. I needed to be the explanation why we obtained again into it or why we stored that drive going. I do know Maurice or anybody else may have accomplished it, however I needed the chance to redeem myself for earlier performs that didn’t go our method. They known as the quarterback draw. I may see it as we had been lining up. I knew we had it, however that was additionally the aspect [Steelers linebacker James Harrison] was on. I used to be like, ‘If [left tackle] Khalif [Barnes] can simply maintain is arms on him, I can work my method round him or run him over for 2 yards.’ I ran by way of a gap I couldn’t consider was there. I believed, ‘Wow, nobody’s right here. Simply me and the security? OK, nicely defend the ball and go down gently.’ He didn’t lay a hand on me.” – David Garrard

Week 12: at Three Rivers Stadium on November 17, 1996
Remaining rating: Jaguars 3 – Steelers 28
Attendance: 58,879

Mark Brunell accomplished 28 out of 47 tried passes for 215 yards. James Stewart led the staff with 62 dashing yards, and Willie Jackson led with 69 receiving yards. Ricky Bell averaged 23.50 yards in kickoff returns. Bryan Barker punted eight occasions for 347 yards. Mike Hollis made the only subject objective try. Travis Davis had one interception and registered 0.5 sacks. Tony Brackens recorded a sack, and Chris Hudson registered 0.5 sacks.

Week 11: at TIAA Financial institution Discipline on November 22, 2020
Remaining Rating: Steelers – 27, Jaguars – 3
Attendance: 17,244

Jake Luton accomplished 16 out of 37 passes for 151 yards. James Robinson led the staff with 73 dashing yards, and D.J. Chark led with 41 receiving yards. Logan Cooke punted six occasions for 324 yards. Chase McLaughlin made one subject objective. Daniel Thomas had an interception.

Gamers who’ve performed for JAX and PIT

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