Jacksonville Jaguars succumb to Chicago Bears 3-41 for another home defeat - NFL Recap
The Jacksonville Jaguars succumbed to another embarrassing 3-41 home defeat, this time at hands of the Chicago Bears, and as running back Maurice Jones-Drew rightly points out, the result reflects on the miserable form they have been showing consistently
over the past five years.
Owner Shahid Khan’s franchise could not manage even 200 yards while allowed 500 yards to their opposition and the game looked swayed to their opposition side since its start.
The team stands at bottom of American Football Conference (AFC) South with a single win (1-4). It appears it will be another season for the Jaguars to end with four or five wins, as they have been doing so for almost last half a decade.
It was the same old pathetic story for second-year quarterback Blaine Gabbert. He completed 17 out of 33 passes for mere 142 yards and admitted in the post-loss comments that he failed coach Mike Mularkey again.
He said:
"I can talk up here all night about what we did, but that's not going to cure anything. We've got to come out in the second half and play better football. It starts with me. When you throw two Pick Sixes in a half, that's awful. I've got to find a way to
fix that and get this offense going a little bit."
Running back Maurice, who rushed for 56 yards on 12 carries, rued the team’s inability to come out of the looming shadows of consistent losses in the last five years. He said they have not been working hard enough to achieve the goal.
The RB said:
"It's been the same thing for five years. Obviously, we're not working hard enough. I don't know. We're just not playing well right now. We have to figure something out."
Coach Mike Mularkey is probably running out of time to decide if he is going to persist with Blaine as offence leader as his predecessor Del Rio had done last year when the quarterback was a rookie.
The team had a better option in form of David Garrard, who missed last season because of an injury scare and was replaced by Blaine as a starter. David was let go earlier this year while coach Mularkey had hoped Gabbert would come out on the field as a better
leader.
Although Gabbert showed to be an improved offence leader on a couple of occasions, he has so far been unable to make an impression. It is a difficult choice in front of the first-year coach to decide to either retain Gabbert, no matter there are greater
chances he will fail again, or find a suitable replacement.
Having failed in four games it is unclear Gabbert will do any good to the team in rest of the season.
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