Jaguars make emphatic statement with upset of Steelers

Tomlin called the 45-42 playoff loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC divisional round a “very disappointing end to an outstanding season”, which included a 13-3 regular-season record and a No. 2 playoff seed. The Steelers were slated to play the Patriots in the AFC championship. He finished with 12 carries for 28 yards in the Divisional Playoff meeting, as the Titans were blown out by the Patriots 35-14.

“The media, everybody, was talking about how it’s not going to be like last week, [quarterback] Blake Bortles this, Blake Bortles that”, said safety Barry Church, who attended Penn Hills High School near Pittsburgh.

“Noooo”, he responded sarcastically, when a reporter asked about Brady’s name being mentioned in a negative light. “And we wasn’t. That’s what I think we did a great job of, just preparing and focusing on us”.

In the world of sports handicapping, games within one score of the final odds, are never over until the final whistle blows. Like the Vikings and Jaguars, the Eagles have one of the best defensive units in football.

In Bryant’s last postseason (2015), he received 21 targets in two games with 14 catches for 183 yards and a touchdown.

“But probably if we’re both doing what we’re supposed to do, the second one is really going to be big and what happens in the first is going to set up the second one”, Tomlin said. “But we get to keep playing and we get an opportunity to play in Foxborough next week for another week”.

The 25-year-old Shazier has made significant progress, but his playing future remains uncertain because of the injury he suffered making a routine tackle on December 4 against Cincinnati. But they controlled the game from the outset with their running and short passing game. But Mariota said it was no excuse.

“It’s pretty incredible to be a part of that”, Brady said. It’s tough, it stings, you hate to lose at home.

“They count us out all the time”, said Minnesota’s Stefon Diggs, whose 61-yard touchdown catch as time expired Sunday gave the Vikings a stunning 29-24 victory. “Obviously, this is the blueprint. Other than that, it’s time to roll to New England baby”. They get a lot of turnovers. He and Marrone engineered the quick turnaround this season, and now the Jaguars are back in the AFC championship game for the first time since Coughlin, as their coach, took them there in the 1996 and “99 seasons”.

The Eagles have not won a World Championship since 1960 and most thought quarterback Nick Foles would be a disaster for the Eagles but on Saturday, Foles outplayed Matt Ryan. Brown scored on a 23-yard touchdown in the second quarter to get the Steelers on the board. In the Jaguars’ case, it’s far more valid than usual.

Behind every monumental win, are players who stepped up for their team when it mattered most.

But Gronkowski said it’s not something that is even registering right now. “Ya know, another shot, another bullet”, Smith said. “The 16.6 overnight for the Titans-Patriots game on Saturday night was the lowest since Cardinals-Panthers in early 2009”. Jacksonville boasts the league’s best pass defence and sacked quarterbacks 55 times this season, a combination of strengths that has been Tom Brady’s Kryptonite in past post-seasons – both Super Bowl losses to the Giants and the 2015 AFC title game against Denver being ideal examples.

“We’ve had a good offense”.