Official Texans @ Jaguars Game Thread, 9/16/2012

[Roy P]

If there are no turnovers, it could be a close game. MJD running the ball and the Jags defense could give them the edge in Time of Possession. So we have to be efficient when we have the ball and score TDs. If we get into a FG battle, this won't be a 20-pt blowout.

[cadams]

Originally Posted by Roy P

If there are no turnovers, it could be a close game. MJD running the ball and the Jags defense could give them the edge in Time of Possession. So we have to be efficient when we have the ball and score TDs. If we get into a FG battle, this won't be a 20-pt blowout.

how is mjd and their defense likely to give them the edge in time of possession anymore than arian foster and the texans defense giving it to the texans?

last time i checked the texans defense was far better than the jags, and while mjd was the rushing leader last year, arian foster wasn't far off.

[WMH]

Hags trying to boost ticket sales..... Pretty smart by the parts guy. $20 is more than $0, and they need all the help they can get. Don't understand why some owners don't get that.

A new ticket promotion: For $20 each you can buy up to four seats to a Jaguars home game on a Saturday. Sunday an hour before kickoff, you turn in your certificate and get random, non-premium seats, likely singles. It’s a coin toss where you’ll wind up, so the team is calling it the Coin Toss Ticket promotion.

http://www.jaguars.com/news/article-...d-df90273a10ee

[Keith]

Originally Posted by WMH

Hags trying to boost ticket sales..... Pretty smart by the parts guy. $20 is more than $0, and they need all the help they can get. Don't understand why some owners don't get that.

I would be concerned that they would be cannabalizing their current ticket sales though. Why pay $70 for a seat when I could wait and do this coin toss thing?

[WMH]

Originally Posted by Keith

I would be concerned that they would be cannabalizing their current ticket sales though. Why pay $70 for a seat when I could wait and do this coin toss thing?

Its only 500 tix, and mostly singles (according to the article). IE tix that would normally go unsold.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Keith

I would be concerned that they would be cannabalizing their current ticket sales though. Why pay $70 for a seat when I could wait and do this coin toss thing?

They don't have any ticket sales, I think that's the point. They close off half the freaking stadium.

I can see why, though. When I think Skynyrdville I think myriad entertainment options.

[nunusguy]

My thought is that the Texans lose one or two division road games this year, so I'm thinking the Jags surprise us with something like a 17-14 score Sunday in FLA. Sure hope I'm wrong about this, but MJD is a far better back than Reggie Bush ever dreamed about being and he's always given us fits, it's the Jags
2012 home-opener, and Gabbert has gotta have a respectible performance one of these days.
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[barrett]

I don't think this Jags defense is that good, and we are a far more dangerous offense than the Ponder-led Vikings who moved the ball with no problems (26 points and 389 yards of total offense, Jags also had a total of 2 sacks for 4 yards and no INTs against the young QB). Not to mention the Jags are extremely banged up on defense and on the OL.

I think MJD can get some yards but he has never been a real big play threat and it is hard to string together long drives without your QB efficiently converting 3rd downs. I can't see Gabbert and a banged up OL converting enough 3rd downs to make even a 100 yard day for MJD move the scoreboard much.

I know as Texans fans many of us are conditioned to expect the worst, but Texans 27-13.

[cadams]

Well, top didn't work out so well for the jags today. Me thinks all the optimism about the jags flowed from them playing a terrible minn team much more than any real improvements.

[barrett]

Roy said it COULD give them the top advantage. And if we don't score and put some pressure on them to keep up, they absolutely COULD patiently hurt us with the running game inside and play keep away.

[cadams]

of course it could. the arizona cardinals could beat the patriots this weekend if they can control the ball and keep brady out of the endzone.

to me it read like the thought it is likely it will happen. if he is just saying something COULD happen if everythign goes right for the other team, that could be said for just about every matchup.

and i am not saying that mjd won't have a good game, i think he will. my issue was with the overall point of the post, and the fact that talking about football is more fun than working.

[barrett]

I agree wholeheartedly with your last statement.

As for Roy's statement, I'd say the jags controlling the clock is reasonable but not likely.

[WMH]

Mularkey: "The count for Maurice will go up". MJD will start v. Houston. -- Adam Schein (@AdamSchein)

[Roy P]

My point was, The Dolphins last week started out with success against our Texans. R. Bush was getting pretty good traction. Foster was being held in check and we were not overwhelming an inferior team. If I were The Jags, I'd use that as my gameplan and hope the Texans don't create turnovers. By staying patient with the run, they could limit the Texans's possessions & opportunities to turn the game into a blowout. MJD is a better RB than Bush, and I would not want to expose Gabbert.