The Jaguars' defense, heavily criticized after December's loss to Detroit, has roared back in a huge way — and Sunday's win in Houston was no exception.
The last time a Jags defense did not allow a touchdown in back-to-back games was in 2001 when they opened the season with a 21-3 victory over Pittsburgh and a 13-6 victory over the Titans. Those opponents combined for three field goals.said it was about time the Jags broke a nine-game losing streak against Houston that dated back to 2017 when he was still at Kentucky.
"We owed these guys," said Josh Allen, who had three quarterback hits, forced the fumble that Campbell returned for a 12-yard touchdown on a sack of Davis Mills and broke up a pass in the end zone on fourth down."We owed them and we wanted to show them it's the same team but a different attitude, a different mindset and they got a good dose of it."The Jaguars forced Houston to turn the ball over on downs four times as the Texans pulled out every stop they could to score.
The biggest fourth-down play came after Lawrence was intercepted by Desmond King in the second quarter and Mills got the Texans to the Jaguars' 15 on a 26-yard completion to O.J. Howard. After a 5-yard completion to Brandin Cooks, Phillip Dorsett dropped a pass, Roy Robertson-Harris rushed Mills into an incompletion and Allen, dropping into coverage, knocked away a pass in the corner of the end zone intended for Rex Burkhead.
The Texans went for it on fourth down twice in the fourth period. On a fourth-and-three at midfield, Chad Muma blitzed Mills and Dorsett had another drop and later, on a fourth-and-18, Cooks was held to a 12-yard completion. The Jaguars took over the NFL lead in fourth-down stops. They entered the day tied with New England in allowing offenses to convert 33.3 percent of fourth-down attempts but lowered that to 28.6 percent while the Patriots allowed Miami to convert two of three.
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