It seems like every time I write about how the Jacksonville Jaguars defense is actually playing really well despite the team’s record Youth Myles Jack Jersey , they go out and have their worst game of the season. The first time they got boat raced by the Dallas Cowboys and then on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts they looked like they’d never played together before.How in the world does that happen? I can understand a miscommunication and blown coverage hear and there, we saw it happen a few times last season. But this many times in the same game? Again? After the bye week?How does that happen? That’s unacceptable.“A lot of times there is a level of focus of formation or where something has to be that has you locked into a coverage. We will communicate a call, but there still has to be an awareness to the formation. We missed that,” Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone said on Monday when he was asked if players are freelancing and not running the coverages they should be running. “We missed another where we were worried about a split that was giving us an issue. Then all of a sudden he is not in that split, but we are worried about the issue and they gain separation. We were in a zero coverage. There was one tight end on the field. We know exactly who has that tight end, and we don’t get on him. Those are the things that happened. When you say ‘willfully’ meaning are the players busting it? No.”There were multiple plays on Sunday you should see looked doomed before the snap and multiple plays where players like Eric Ebron were running wide open, with no one anywhere close and they resulted in chunk plays and touchdowns. When you keep running into busts like that, you start to see players pressing and trying to force plays that aren’t there and it just compounds the issue. “The problem is if you make a mistake – let’s get it corrected and let’s go on,” Marrone continued. “Let’s not push and try to get ourselves out of it. One mistake and when you push leads to another mistake and another mistake and that seems to be, in my conversations with the players Youth Dede Westbrook Jersey , what happens. They make a mistake and try to make up for it, and they just need to go ahead to the next play and do their job.”One of the plays the Jaguars should have been playing three deep but for whatever reason cornerback Jalen Ramsey didn’t. That resulted in the long Ebron touchdown. Another play Barry Church should have had the tight end and didn’t, which resulted in another Ebron touchdown. Then there were a few plays where someone like Telvin Smith was caught in no-man’s land trying to cover two players, which resulted in chunk plays.Even on Smith’s interception, it appeared to be a busted play and mercifully the ball bounced to Smith and he made a play on the ball.The Jaguars defense seemed to shore up in the second half, allowing only 60 yards to the Colts, but the damage had already been done and the offense couldn’t catch up. The offense, by the way, did more than enough to win the game on Sunday. When they score 26 points and don’t turn the ball over (until the final drive), with this defense www.jacksonvillejaguarsteamonline.com , you should be winning the game. Easily.The problems on the defense seem to be becoming more frequent and they consistently seem to be communication issues. I don’t know what the fix is or if the defense just isn’t listening to Todd Wash’s message anymore or what, but it needs to be rectified fast.Having those kinds of issues, after a bye week, is unacceptable. It’s kind of ironic that the Jaguars season ends with a massive defensive collapse.5 questions with Music City Miracles: Why do the Titans seem to have the Jaguars’ number? It’s rivalry week for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans. The Jags will look to remain perfect to start the season and improve to 3-0, while the 1-1 Titans have an opportunity to move past .500 here in the early season. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday inside of TIAA Bank Field. It’s no secret that Jacksonville has struggled against Tennessee recently. Let’s find out why that is, and get a better picture of what the Titans are as a team for the 2018 season. I spoke with Jimmy Morris of Music City Miracles — SB Nation’s Tennessee Titans experts —to learnmore about what to expect from that team from Nashville. 1. The Titans are dealing with a lot of injuries. Most importantly, Marcus Mariota, Taylor Lewan and Jack Conklin (Go Green!). Are you expecting those three players to be active against Jacksonville? If Mariota doesn’t play on Sunday, do you think the Titans stand a chance with former Jaguar Blaine Gabbert under center? He did beat his former team last year with the Arizona Cardinals. Jimmy: Taylor Lewan is most likely going to play. He was in the last step of the concussion protocol on Wednesday. As long as there wasn’t a setback after practice he will be out there on Sunday.Jack Conklin is still recovering from a torn ACL last January. He has been limited in practice the first two weeks, but was a full go on Wednesday. It sounds like he has a chance to play Jacksonville Jaguars T-Shirt , but my guess is that it is still a week or two before he plays.Marcus Mariota is still dealing with an ulnar nerve issue. It appears to have gotten better, but he was still struggling to push the ball down the field by all accounts yesterday. We probably won’t know for sure until Sunday on Mariota, but it seems like he is a long-shot to play as well.As for can the Titans win with Blaine Gabbert, I would say they can, but their chances are much better, obviously, with Marcus out there. The Titans came out with a perfect game plan against the Texans last week when they were without their starting QB and their top-three offensive tackles. I worry that they expended their full bag of tricks last week, but I have a lot of faith in this coaching staff. They can come up with a plan that gives the Titans a chance. We will see what happens from there. 2. Despite the injuries, the Titans were able to beat the Houston Texans in Week 2. What was the game plan like that allowed this to happen, and do you think a similar game plan work against Jacksonville? Jimmy: The Titans basically just took the ball out of Gabbert’s hands. They went run heavy Jacksonville Jaguars Hats , and when Gabbert was asked to throw they were short routes that might have been pre-determined reads. Again, that is what made the most sense with all of the injuries they had. They even ran a couple of series with Derrick Henry in the wildcat. Oh, and it helped that the Texans stacked 10 men on the line of scrimmage that allowed a 66-yard fake punt touchdown.I would expect a similar game plan this week, but they will have to come up with some new wrinkles because the wildcat won’t be a surprise this week. As I said above, I have faith that this coaching staff can come up with something to keep the game close. It will then be up to the players to make plays.3. What are your thoughts about new head coach Mike Vrabel through two games? Is there confidence amongst the fanbase that Vrabel, and the new coordinators Dean Pees and Matt LeFleur, are the right men for the job? Jimmy: I love Mike Vrabel. The confidence is sky high in this staff after seeing the game plan they came up with last week. By all accounts they completely switched course on the game plan on Friday after it became apparent they were going to be without Mariota and back-up tackle Dennis Kelly. The staff here last year would not have done that. They would have just lined up and tried to run what they run. 4. Despite Jacksonville’s success in 2017, the Titans had the Jaguars’ number. Why do you think that was, and do you expect more of the same in 2018? Jimmy: Warren Sharp did a nice job of breaking it down here. Basically the Titans prehistoric offense was effective against the Jaguars defense that was really, really good. Now the Titans are a different team this year Jacksonville Jaguars Hoodie , but this staff seems committed to studying a team and trying to attack their weaknesses. That seems like a really simple thing, but that wasn’t what the staff here last year did. I expect this staff to spend a lot of time looking at what made the Titans successful last year and try to emulate it.5. Putting rivalry biases aside, do you buy the Jaguars as a legitimate Super Bowl contender? Why or why not? Jimmy: I absolutely do think they are a legitimate contender because of that historically good defense. They would have made the Super Bowl last year if not for getting so conservative in the second half against the Patriots. I would be legitimately concerned about the Jags had they acquired Alex Smith this past offseason, but instead they committed to Blake Bortles. I think that is what ultimately keeps them from winning a Super Bowl.Bonus: Final score prediction? Jimmy: Titans 17 Jaguars 10 Thank you to Jimmy for providing great insights on the Titans. You can find him on Twitter, and to keep up with our division rival, follow @TitansMCM as well.