![]() McCown retired ahead of the 2019 season, but he was persuaded not to hang up his cleats in order to serve as a backup for the Eagles last year. "That's an extremely inexpensive insurance policy at the most important position, and it gives you a guy who not just knows the offense but is keeping up with the intricacies of the game plan every week." "It just makes too much sense," McCartney said. Kassim Osgood, signed as a free agent in the offseason, showed how he'll upgrade the special teams as he downed a punt on the 1-yard line.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. The play of the special teams was encouraging for the Jaguars. Rather than throw a quick pass, McCown took off scrambling to his right and ran out of the clock before throwing the ball.Īn Eagles penalty nullified the mistake and Josh Scobee got a chance to kick a 36-yard field goal. He finished 11-for-15 for 244 yards before being replaced by undrafted rookie Trevor Harris.īut McCown also made a mistake at the end of the first half when the Jaguars had a 3rd-and-6 at the Eagles 22 with eight seconds left. McCown's three touchdown passes were 73 yards to Troy Williamson, 30 yards to newcomer John Matthews, and 55 yards to second-year player Tiquan Underwood against the Eagles' backups. "With only three points, that's a win on the defense, but them driving, it doesn't feel good.'' You need to give your offense a chance,'' Morrison said. "You don't want them to score touchdowns. Linebacker Kirk Morrison, making his first start for the Jaguars, noted the first-team defense held the Eagles to field goals. "There is some stuff we're going to review on film.'' "They got a couple of drives on us,'' said safety Gerald Alexander said. Their only sack in the first half was on a Michael Vick run, when Derrick Harvey also forced a fumble. With a starting defensive line of Derrick Harvey and Jeremy Mincey at ends, and Terrance Knighton and Atiyyah Ellison at tackles, the Jaguars had little to no pass rush and looked like the team that had a league low 14 sacks last year. Related: Jaguars' pass rush still a question after preseason loss to Eagles ![]() The Jaguars were shorthanded with 10 players sidelined, including such key defensive newcomers as free agent defensive end Aaron Kampman and first-round draft choice Tyson Alualu. They did a good job of stopping us at times, but I think a lot of times, we were stopping ourselves,'' he said. "We've got to do a better job of getting first downs and keeping the offense on the field. Not the kind of start we want, but I like the way we finished the half.'' Things didn't go well early for us, sputtered a little offensively, and defensively didn't make the plays that we needed to make. I was happy to see Luke come in and hook up with Troy on a couple of deep strikes and move the ball. "It wasn't what we need at all,'' Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said. Related: Jaguars Notebook: Rookie Deji Karim shows skills in return game He suffered a shoulder injury on the play and spent the second half on the sidelines with his left arm in a sling. One of his five incomplete passes was a high throw to Mike Sims-Walker, who caught the ball, but dropped it when sandwiched by two defenders. Garrard got one first down on a 16-yard pass to Mike Thomas during his brief stint. Jaguars quarterback David Garrard completed five of 10 passes for 35 yards before being pulled along with the most of the rest of the first-team offense after three series. While the defense gave up field goal drives of nine and 10 plays engineered by new Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb, the offense, missing starting tackles Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton, was ineffective. The Eagles had a 9-0 edge in first downs and a 165-10 margin in yardage in the first quarter, but only a 6-0 lead because the Jaguars stopped them twice in the red zone. They led by a point at halftime before losing 28-27 as the Eagles trumped three touchdown passes by backup quarterback Luke McCown.īut the reality was that in the first quarter when the two teams played their starters, the Jaguars were dominated. PHILADELPHIA - The Jaguars gave a seminar Friday night on why the results of preseason games can be so misleading.
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