The Jacksonville Jaguars’ defense is again standing out in this crucial area in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Over the Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> last two games, the defense has once again been generating takeaways at a high rate.<\/p>\n Against Tennessee in Week 13, the Jaguars<\/a>‘ defense came away with two turnovers. This past week against Indianapolis, Jacksonville forced three more.<\/p>\n To state the obvious, turnovers are great. They can take points off the board for the opponent, limit possessions, and can set the defense’s own offense up with good field position.<\/p>\n However, to truly maximize what takeaways can provide, complementary football is required. Or another way to put it, the offense then needs to turn those takeaways from the defense into points — which the Jaguars have also done.<\/p>\n Of those five takeaways over the last two games, the Jaguars’ offense has produced three touchdowns.<\/p>\n “Our defense did an unbelievable job again creating turnovers, and we were able to take advantage of them,”\u00a0said Liam Coen, via Jaguars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the Jaguars recorded a whopping 14 turnovers in their first five games, they mustered only four over the next six games. As ESPN’s Bill Barnwell<\/a> noted, during that six-game stretch, the Jaguars were 3-3 and dropped from sixth in EPA (expected points added) per play to 19th.<\/p>\n That pendulum has since swung back in favor of the Jaguars’ defense in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Fourth down stops don’t count the same as an interception or a fumble recovery, but in a way, those are turnovers as well, and this is another area where the Jaguars’ defense has been quite good.<\/p>\n The Titans and Colts<\/a> were a combined 1-for-5<\/a> on fourth down attempts against Jacksonville.<\/p>\n Statistically speaking, the team that wins the turnover battle often wins the game, and the Jaguars’ defense is finding ways to give the ball back to their offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars’ defense is again standing out in this crucial area in recent weeks. Over the Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,8015,8019,9069,48219,5723,7235,3188,723,1318,11652,1412,59,20579,9002,7310,8017,8013,9068,9077,451,50,1232,12623,450,457,62,1458,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-437343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-coen","tag-colts","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-in","tag-inc","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-liam","tag-liam-coen","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115694123387479226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437343","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=437343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}