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Monday, September 10, 2007

Jag fan from '95 asked about why the Jags didn't kick a FG on 4th-and-10 from the 19: Kicker Josh Scobee injured his quad muscle when his foot hit the ground during pregame warmups. He was hobbling so bad even after extra points. They determined he'd try no field goals beyond 25 yards, which is why he kicked a 22-yarder and one extra point, but never was on the field for kickofffs.

James asked why the Jags don't have a backup kicker on the roster: Generally, teams only keep one kicker because there's only 53 on a roster and 7 get deactivated on game day. Depth is usually a much greater need in other areas that coaches don't want to use up a game-day roster spot on a kicker that isn't likely to play. It's rare when placekickers get hurt, but in this case, it cost the Jaguars a valuable three points. But given the way the defense played SUnday, it's questionable whether a healthy Scobee would have altered the outcome because the offense never got in position to score in the entire second half.

1 comment:

migue said...

Don't worry about the lack of comments, I think it will take a little while for fans to know to write you here....or they're still pissed about the game.

 
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