Unexpected Jaguars Loss to Texans Shakes Playoff Hopes

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00:00All right. So my sleeper team at the beginning of the season came to an end yesterday. All the

00:04Jaguars had to do was beat the Houston Texans and they were just crushing them. What happened

00:08here, Jacob? I mean, come on 36 to 29. And I understand the final score was 30 to 29 and

00:15Houston scored on the defensive touchdown at the end. I get that. But the Jaguars can't get a stop

00:21on defense after playing so well in the first half. I mean, this is a stunner to me that this

00:26happened. And now, you know, Houston kind of finds themselves a little bit back in the

00:30mix. I don't think that they're going to get there. I still think that Jacksonville can make

00:34the playoffs after this one. But if they don't, they're going to look back on this one, Jacob,

00:38and say, we blew it. Absolutely. Especially with how that game started where they were

00:43forcing turnovers. I think they forced Davis Mills into an interception on one of his first

00:47two passes of the game. And that really set the stage for the Jaguars to have what could

00:51have been a dominant win. But look, I think Davis Mills is a good backup quarterback, but

00:56he should not be the kind of guy that can lead your team to 26 points in the final quarter.

01:01And yeah, you could say that was 20 because the last minute defensive touchdown didn't

01:05need to happen. But still, the Jaguars defense just kind of folded in on itself. And their

01:10offense really wasn't that impressive either. I mean, we're talking about a team that had

01:15Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne. They both were able to move the ball a little bit, but

01:19they weren't able to consistently get the ball downfield. Now, I know the Jaguars were missing

01:23Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter in this game, and Jacoby Myers had just come over from the

01:27trade. So maybe we should have expected them to struggle against this Texans defense. But I think

01:32what ultimately undid them was their inability to really run the ball and grind the clock late in

01:37the game. Because if they could have just sustained a couple of drives in that second half,

01:41it would have been much harder for Davis Mills and company to come back. But yeah, this was

01:45certainly a disappointing loss for the Jaguars.