It's Not Time for the Jaguars to Panic Yet

It's not as bad as it seems for the Jaguars

There's no doubt that the Jacksonville Jaguars have some major work to do during their bye week. Several weaknesses have been exposed in their two-game slide against the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams, and nearly all of their strengths disappeared.

They haven't been able to protect Trevor Lawrence, the ground game was completely neutralized, the defense hasn't forced turnovers, and the wide receivers have been back to dropping passes left and right. Still, the Jaguars have a winning record, with several truly impressive victories. Most of their losses have come against some of the top teams in the NFL this season, a fact that was only further compounded with the Seahawks handling the Houston Texans in this week's Monday Night Football slate, 27-19.

Last year, the Jaguars and their fans would have been thrilled to be 4-3 after Week 7. Head Coach Liam Coen was asked what he thought about the team's record despite their two-game skid:

"That's what we just talked about as a staff was, we cannot, absolutely not, go back and try to reinvent the wheel here. We're sitting at four and three, everything's ahead of us. We’ve got to play cleaner football. That's the reality and until you play cleaner in between the whistles, in between the white lines of playing more fundamentally sound, having better situational awareness, executing and handling the controllables, that's where we're at. We have to pour into that and find out, okay, these two days that we have as a staff, what do we do best? What are the things that we do best in all three phases, go and dive into and pour into those things?"

"How do we continue to trim it? Trim the inventory as a group so that we're not watering down the fundamentals and techniques of our core principles of the things that's going to make up 80 percent, 85 percent of your calls, your call sheet. That’s just how I've been taught to get back on track personally. There's times where you’ve got to go and dig deep and go reinvent the wheel because you've got a bunch of holes. Well, I don't think that's the case. We have not played our best the last two weeks going into the bye, which does kind of suck. It does. It's not a great feeling, but everything's ahead of us and my thing to this team is going to be, ‘Man guys, we have done so many good things. We are a really good football team, but not when we hurt ourselves.’”

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