By: Noah Trombley
The Jacksonville Jaguars will look to bounce back this week as they take on the Denver Broncos in Jacksonville. This matchup is a very huge test for this young Jacksonville team as they are not only playing their first home game this year but are also coming off that atrocious week 1 performance against the Houston Texans.
The main thing to look at in this matchup is the play calling and schemes from head coach Urban Meyer. After last week with all the illegal shifts and illegal formation penalties the team is going to have to clean that up and either simplify the playbook or understand it better to not make these mistakes happen. The dropped passes also need to be cleaned up by coaching, there were over 5 dropped passes last week by good receivers and that can’t happen against an offense that showed last week that they can put points on the board. The Jaguars need to also focus on getting the run game going in order to take some of the pressure off of Trevor Lawrence to make plays and force the ball into coverages. The Jaguars only had 76 yards of rushing last week between Carlos Hyde and James Robinson, 44 and 25 yards respectively. The Jaguars cannot afford to become a one dimensional team and need to open up the run game in order to start running some play action and some other schemes in order to really let this offense go.
Looking back on this brief history of this series the Jaguars actually have the edge so far in head to head matchups, 6 wins to 5 losses. As far as key matchups during the game to look at will be when the Jaguars offense faces a relentless pass rush from the Denver Broncos. This offensive line is gonna have to deal with the pass rushing abilities of Von Miller and Bradley Chubb who have shown they can get to the quarterback whenever they please so the offensive line needs to protect their future in Trevor Lawrence and make sure he has time to throw.
The Sports Insanity Network 