Bucs vs. Jaguars Game Day Newsletter 7 Dec 1 Bucs_Layout_Digital | Page 15

to get fi red if you don’t win well enough. So, you just
work your butt off and it’s up to other people to handle
that. I just leave it up to them.
“What I am going put my time into is how we can coach
them better and how we can play better.”
The stretch run of the 2019 season starts today as
the Jaguars welcome the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to
TIAA Bank Field for a Week 13 matchup at the start of
December.
Defense
In the NFL, if you cannot stop the run on defense then
nothing else will set up well.
For the third straight week, the Jaguars found that
out the hard way when the Tennessee Titans ran for
219 yards in last week’s 42-20 win over the Jaguars
at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Titans running back
Derrick Henry accounted for 159 of those yards
with two touchdowns, including a 74-yard scamper
reminiscent of his 99-yard touchdown in 2018.
Over the last three games, the Jaguars defense has
allowed 699 rushing yards – 216 to Houston, 264 to
Indianapolis and 219 last week to Tennessee. It’s the
fi rst time in franchise history that opponents have run
for 200-plus in three straight weeks.
“At the end of the day, we have got so many people
committed to it, we have got so many things going, but
that’s our job – we have got to fi gure it out with the
guys that we have,” Head Coach Doug Marrone said
immediately after last week’s loss.
“You have got to keep trying; that’s how I was raised.
Whether people like it or not, you just keep going. You
keep fi ghting, you keep trying.
“I think if you just say we are going to get it corrected,
and you keep things the same – I can’t live like that.
That’s not how I live my life. I don’t believe in that, so
it is very diffi cult. We are going to back and look again
and probably to fi nd something else, because obviously
what we have been doing hasn’t worked. We have got
to get that done.”
Veteran cornerback A.J. Bouye has played his entire
seven-year career in the AFC South, with four seasons
with the Texans and now in his third season with the
Jaguars.
“It just frustrates me when you see something in
practice and you know somebody is going to be there,
and then it doesn’t happen in a game,” Bouye said in the
postgame locker room in Nashville.
“As a defense we did a good job of stopping the run
in the fi rst half, but they kept chipping away at it.
Adjustments weren’t where they needed to be.”
For 12th-year veteran defensive lineman Calais
Campbell, the players will not quit trying to fi nd ways to
get it right on defense.
“There isn’t any quit in us,” Campbell said. “We don’t
like losing, especially the way we have, but we are
going to keep playing. Hopefully we can play some good
ball and have a winning season and get lucky.”
With fi ve games remaining, the Jaguars are still
mathematically alive for the postseason, but since the
playoff expansion of 2002, only the 2008 Chargers have
fallen to a 4-7 record and rallied to make the playoffs.
“We can’t let this end our season. We still have a chance