The fact is, you can't talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars season without bringing up the laughable and entirely foreseeable failures of Blake Bortles. They basically served as the short fuse that led to the implosion of both a locker room and a once dominant defense, so it's not particular fair to mock said defense ahead of the quarterback that defied the odds of having no competent backup in getting himself shunned to the sidelines. Fortunately, diplomacy went out the window when Jalen Ramsey spent all offseason going around calling everyone short of his own mother "trash", so I feel as though I'm at liberty to bring up how he was taken out like such. Simply put, if you want to be the guy to rescind the offer of a helping hand to an opposing quarterback (below) when things are going well then you can't be the same guy who is so quick to flail faintly to the ground like you just received devastating news as the most overdramatic actor in a low budget movie when things are going poorly.
Seriously, especially for someone so pompously proud, that flop was matched only in shamelessness by the defensive "effort" it came during. If you didn't have enough time to watch Derrick Henry lumber 238 yards en route to 4 touchdowns, thus becoming the only known predator to any and all Jaguars that dared to put themselves in his crosshairs, then I'd tell you to watch that GIF and think of it as summing up both Tennessee's rushing attack and the defense that was nothing short of submissive to it...
Jacksonville's defense didn't just get bullied. They got "footprints on their back" trampled as they tried to pander for pity. It was simply a sad state of affairs for a front-running unit that had no problem playing with purpose when playing from ahead, but it was a sad state of affairs that couldn't do a better job of explaining how easily a defense that arrogantly declared itself mighty has fallen.
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