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The 1-6 Jacksonville Jaguars will get the ultimate measuring stick game this Sunday, hosting the 5-2 Buffalo Bills at
Aaron Judge Jersey TIAA Bank Field as the two seasons move in dramatically different directions.For the Bills, Sunday is a game against an opponent they will attempt to not overlook. For the Jaguars, it is a chance to show the entire league that the Jaguars' rebuild isn't quite as far off as Jacksonville's record suggests. And when it comes to deciding which team comes out victorious, look no further than Josh Allen -- either one. For the Bills, their hopes will rely on the right arm of quarterback Josh Allen, their first-round pick in 2018.For the Jaguars, they will need their own Josh Allen -- the No. 7 overall pick in 2019 -- to step up on the defensive side of the ball and slow down his partner in namesake. "You know, yeah. I mean, like I said, Im just looking forward to playing against this team and then looking forward to playing against him. Hes been playing at a high level of recent," Jacksonville's Josh Allen said on Wednesday. "Hes been evading sacks recently, hes been getting out of the pocket, his O-line does a really good job of protecting him. I love this challenge. Were going to get after them but we have to do it early and throughout the whole game.The matchup isn't the first time two players with the same name will face off in NFL history, but it is at last a matchup between two of the NFL's top young offensive and defensive players. For
Gleyber Torres Jersey years, the two have been tied together in social media posts and name searches. Now, they will at last share the field, and Josh Allen will have a chance to conquer Josh Allen."Hes a young, mobile quarterback and he has a big arm. Im not surprised at all. His team has been playing really well, hes been dropping crazy numbers. So, Im not surprised and thats one thing I know out of that, as a defensive mind, ball security," Jacksonville's Josh Allen said."So, if you want to make those plays, just know weve got guys coming for that ball. So, jump, do whatever you want to do, weve got guys coming for that ball. Thats our mindsets, but thats not taking anything away from him and the plays that he has made. But were coming.But don't expect for Sunday to be the last time the two Josh Allens are tied together. Each is off to a strong start this season and is expected to be a key piece of their team's rebuild. And, after all, no result on Sunday will stop Jacksonville's Josh Allen from potentially getting his Buffalo counterpart's mail as each continues their long and productive careers."I actually got an email that was somethingIm not going to tell his busine s out therebut I got an email for him and I was like, Oh yeah! Then, I looked at it and I was like, I dont think this was for me. So, that was all the hiccup I got, outside of just fans or whatever. So, I thought that was pretty cool," Allen laughed this week. Movement in the slotOne big part of Jacksonville's defense to watch this week is the slot position. The Jaguars likely won't be in their base defense very often against the Bills, who Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer called a pure spread offense. One of the biggest pieces of the Bills' offense is slot receiver Cole Beasley, and the Jaguars experimented more with having backup safety Rudy Ford cover the slot in Week 8 as opposed to Tre Herndon.Yeah, Rudy Ford has been one of our most productive players. Hes fast and hes aggre sive," Meyer said on Wednesday. Hes one of the best special teams players Ive ever seen. We need his speed and Tre Herndon is still battling a little bit with that knee. So, hes earned that and hell play more.Ford said this week that he hasn't played slot cornerback since he did so in college five years ago, but he is willing to attack any role the defense asks of him. Ford entered the organization as a core special teamer but
J.A. Happ Jersey then became a key part of the team's dime packages, and is now moving into an even bigger coverage role.Scroll to Continue"Yeah, my mindset is just to go and help, you know, I'm saying just to help our team. My mindset is keep going out, play at a high level and to go in anywhere the team asks and make sure I'm there to help our team, you know, to keep building this team and to keep
Drew Hutchison Jersey helping us continue to try to elevate each and every week," Ford told Jaguar Report after Practice on Thursday. "That's kind of my mindset is how can I become better, how can we become better as an organization? You know, that is everything, that's kind of my mindset"Defending Josh AllenOne Jaguars defender who has a good amount of experience defending Buffalo's Josh Allen? Inside linebacker Damien Wilson, who started two games against Allen during his stellar 2020 campaign. Wilson was then with the Kansas City Chiefs as they geared up for another Super Bowl run, giving him valuable insight into how to potentially slow down the rare quarterback."The play is never over, man. They are never out of it," Wilson told Jaguar Report on Friday."And he's such a big strong guy, even when you think you got him and he's going down, he might not be, so you just got to finish everything till completion. That's the motto with that guy. Finish everything to completion."Darrel Bevell not concerned with dropsDo the Jaguars have a drop problem on offense? That likely depends on who you ask. The numbers show the Jaguars aren't exactly perfect when it comes to drops, with Sports Info Solutions ranking the Jaguars tied for No. 10 in drops this year with 15. Nine of these drops have come on third-down, which leads the entire NFL despite the Jaguars already having their bye week. But for offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, the drops aren't a huge i sue holding back the offense. Bevell credited the offense with two drops against the Seahawks and noted that it is more of a rare occurrence than a common one, especially since one of those drops came from Marvin Jones, who is the Jaguars' best and most
Adam Ottavino Jersey sure-handed receiver.Yeah, I think we had two drops in that game. Marvin Jones Jr. had one, I think that was a big drop, it would have given us a third-down conversion. It was actually a long yardage one. And then T-Billy, Tyron Johnson, dropped the one on the sideline after he got hit," Bevell said on Thursday. "I dont get too concerned with it a lot of times, unle s it becomes an epidemic about it. But they are going to happen, but well try to minimize it as much as we can. I mean, Marvin has been a very sure-handed guy for us, so I dont see that being a problem.Jordan Smith getting closer to seeing snapsThe lack of production from the Jaguars' 2021 draft cla s has been glaring. No. 1 overall pick Trevor Lawrence has, of course, played every offensive snap, but other than that the Jaguars have gotten the following results from their draft picks.Travis Etienne: out for the year.Tyson Campbell: misused at slot corn