acromaine t1_j4rrgw7 wrote on January 17, 2023 at 8:27 PM

Reply to comment by Rogue100 in The Jaguars 27-point comeback against the Chargers on Saturday night is the largest comeback in NFL history for a team that didn't force a single turnover. The Chargers won the turnover battle 5-0. by B0rtles

The chargers were bad all game. Couldn’t do a single thing unless we literally handed them the ball near the goal line. Once we stopped doing that it went how it should have the whole game.

SupahCharged t1_j4sso4j wrote on January 18, 2023 at 12:28 AM

That's a little revisionist and disingenuous. It's always tough to move the ball in the red zone because the field is condensed and there's less to defend and they were mostly the ones making the plays to get the the takeaways on defense (save for the ball off the helmet). And you can only go as far as the end zone on any drive so you shouldn't hold the starting position against them on those drives.

The fact is they were still outgaining the jags 170-50 when they went up 27-0, even with all those short fields limiting their potential to gain yards (16 and a 18 yard TD drives). If they were bad, what were the jags? They definitely weren't perfect, but calling them bad the whole game is pretty stupid. Jags also were aided by two big in-game injuries to the chargers that affected their second half (LT on offense and their best CB on defense).