What we learned about Jaguars in their 26-21 win at 49ers, Ryan O’Halloran<\/a><\/p>\nSettling it on field<\/p>\n
At the other end of the stadium, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan lobbed his own volley toward Coen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he should be that sensitive about it,\u201d Shanahan said.<\/p>\n
Says who? The guess here is Shanahan would have broiling behind the scenes if the roles were reversed.<\/p>\n
Saleh wanted to compliment the Jaguars\u2019 decoding effort, but my decoding of his words goes something like this: It was as if he was saying, \u201cYeah, the Jaguars\u2019 offense is moving the ball, but come on, they\u2019re the Jaguars \u2014 they have to be doing something off-board.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anybody who has followed the Jaguars knows other teams and players take pot shots at them. That means they are taking pot shots at you, city of Jacksonville and all Jaguars fans. It gets old, I imagine. And Saleh should have known better since he coached for the Jaguars from 2014-16.<\/p>\n
But this Jaguars team did something about it. They stood up for their coach by forcing four takeaways and scoring touchdowns on a 48-yard run by Travis Etienne and an 87-yard punt return by Parker Washington. They took the lead 19 seconds into the second quarter and didn\u2019t give it up.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t you already like the mindset of this Jaguars team? They give no quarter. They won\u2019t get pushed around.<\/p>\n
These Jaguars, these 3-1 Jaguars, these takeaway-producing Jaguars, these able-to-overcome-multiple-starters-getting-injured Jaguars might just be for real. They enter October tied atop the AFC South with the Indianapolis Colts and you can see their confidence level rising with each win.<\/p>\n
They have a defense that has produced 13 takeaways in four games after nine all of last year. They have an offense that is still leaving way too many points on the field, but can at least run it (151 yards). We are on the cusp of this becoming an enjoying next few months.<\/p>\n
This is a team that doesn\u2019t need extra motivation, but won\u2019t turn it away, either.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen your character is called out by somebody, it gets under your skin,\u201d Jaguars receiver Tim Patrick said. \u201cWe settled it on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact Ryan O’Halloran at rohalloran@gannett.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Coen, Jacksonville Jaguars coach, speaks after defeating 49ers Liam Coen spoke with reporters after the Jacksonville Jaguars…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":262991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[43941,691,5229,8015,8019,15907,9069,2488,3188,723,1318,2870,15899,2487,11652,7310,8017,8013,9067,9068,9077,1571,5382,451,50,1232,12623,450,457,633,15919,134533,137504,1624,9005,62,1458,645,2490,15906,15924,9066,9076,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-263270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-american","12":"tag-american-football","13":"tag-boselli","14":"tag-coen","15":"tag-enabled","16":"tag-fl","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-francisco","20":"tag-hainsey","21":"tag-highlights","22":"tag-hub","23":"tag-jacksonville","24":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","25":"tag-jaguars","26":"tag-lawrence","27":"tag-liam","28":"tag-liam-coen","29":"tag-national","30":"tag-national-sports","31":"tag-negative","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-nfl","34":"tag-nfl-hub","35":"tag-overall","36":"tag-overall-negative","37":"tag-robert","38":"tag-robert-hainsey","39":"tag-robert-saleh","40":"tag-saleh","41":"tag-san","42":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","43":"tag-sports","44":"tag-sports-news","45":"tag-story","46":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","47":"tag-tony","48":"tag-tony-boselli","49":"tag-trevor","50":"tag-trevor-lawrence","51":"tag-united-states","52":"tag-united-states-of-america","53":"tag-unitedstates","54":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","55":"tag-us","56":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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