Jacksonville Jaguars vs. New York Giants: Live blog regular season Week 1

The Jacksonville Jaguars mission to Atlanta and Super Bowl LIII begins today Jacksonville Jaguars T-Shirt , as they travel to MetLife Stadium to play the New York Giants.Stay with us all through the afternoon as we live blog the game as it happens, and feel free to join the conversation in the comments as the day progresses. We’ll have post-game coverage as well following the conclusion of the game.Let’s GO!How to watchNeed to find out how to watch, stream, or listen to today’s game? We got you covered here.Live Blog4:05 PM: Jaguars Win! The Giants muff a punt following the Jaguars killing clock, and the ball is recovered by DJ Hayden. Jaguars win, 20-15 and go to 1-0 on the season.4:01 PM: The Giants get to Jags territory but the defense comes up with a huge stop as DJ Hayden knocks away a pass from Manning to Sheppard on 4th & 6.3:45 PM: The Jaguars get the ball back following the two teams exchanging punts. We got about 7 minutes left in this game, and the Jags need to march and put some points up on this board to put this one away.M:3:38 PM: Giants answer back as the rookie RB Barkley goes 67 yards for a touchdown. Two missed tackles lets the rookie make a game of it, still. Jaguars lead 20-15 after a failed two point conversion.3:33 PM: TOUCHDOWN! After Jags punt, Giants takes over and Ngakoue forces a tipped pass that is intercepted and returned by Myles Jack for a touchdown, and HE WAS NOT DOWN! Jaguars lead 20-9.3:25 PM: The Jaguars defense makes yet another stop and forces the Giants to punt following a 3rd & 20 completion short of the sticks to Beckham Jr. Jaguars take over at their 20 thanks to a touch back.3:15 PM: Blake Bortles runs for 41 yards, but the Jags drive stalls at midfield. Still 13-9 Jaguars as we near the end of the 3rd.3:10 PM: Jags defense forces another 3 & out. Good pressure on 3rd down forces a Manning throw intended for Beckham into the dirt.3:03 PM: Jaguars punt again and pin the Giants at their 10 after a Cam Robinson false start essentially kills the drive at midfield on 3rd & short. Bortles tries to find Moncrief on 3rd & 9 but throws wide and outside on the back shoulder attempt. Penalties are killing this team today.2:58 PM: The Jaguars defense comes through with a huge stop on 4th & 2 as Barkley attempts to leap over the pile but falls inches short. Jaguars takes over and need to do a lot more than run, run, pass, punt.2:51 PM: The Jaguars came out on their first offensive possession in 20 minutes, and went run, run, pass...I’ll let you figure out how that went.2:44 PM: The Giants open the second half with a drive assisted once again by some clear penalties made by Jaguars defenders, including a 15 yard facemask on Yannick Ngakoue on Saquon Barkley. The defense forces 3rd & 16 inside Jags territory and barely keep the Giants from converting. New York converts the field goal. Jaguars still lead 13-9.2:20 PM: The Giants drive down field, with the help of two pass interference calls on Barry Church and Jalen Ramsey while covering Odel Beckham Jr. The defense holds but Giants add 3 as times expires. We reach halftime with Jaguars leading 13-6.2:05 PM: TOUCHDOWN! Jaguars go 57 yards, including two great passes from Bortles to Westbrook Jacksonville Jaguars Hats , and a powerful run by TJ Yeldon. Jags cap it off with a 1 yard pass from Bortles to Yeldon for six. Jaguars now lead 13-3.2:00 PM: Outside of one drive, defense has been great.1:56 PM: Jaguars defense forces another 3 & out, but Fournette is currently getting worked on for a hamstring injury, according to the Jaguars. He is QUESTIONABLE to return. Jags take over at their own 35.1:49 PM: The Jaguars get a great drive that stalls at the Giants 24. They had a touchdown pass from Bortles to ASJ wiped off the board by a Norwell hands to the face penalty, and another near pick for Janoris Jenkins careens off into Niles Paul’s chest but is dropped in the end zone. Josh Lambo kick makes it 6-3, Jaguars....and Leonard Fournette is limping. SIGH..1:39 PM: End of the 1st quarter. 3-3, Jaguars have the ball with 2nd & 4 inside their own territory to start the 2nd.1:35 PM: The Giants march down to inside the Jags 10 yard line thanks to Beckham Jr. getting a chunk 24 yard play on a pick route, and Barkley getting involved on a couple of 10 yard runs. The Jags D holds inside the 10 though, and forces a Giants field goal. We are tied at 3-3. The Jags defense has yet to really get to Eli Manning, not a good sign.1:25 PM: After a Giants sack due to a blown assignment by Andrew Norwell, Bortles is picked off by Janoris Jenkins on a sideline attempt to Moncrief that didn’t have much air on it. Bad ball, Blake. Giants takes over.1:20 PM: The Jaguars get the fortune of two penalties on Giants tackle Flowers who is getting mauled by Calais Campbell. Two near safeties, one by penalty, one by a host of Jags meeting Barkley at the half yard line, end up with the Giants just getting space for their punter, and a slooow 3 & out and a great start for the Jaguars D.1:11 PM: Jags open with a first strike field goal. Bortles connects on a 30 yard pass to Keelan Cole, and Fournette gets a couple of nice conversion runs on 2nd and short. Drive stalls at Giants 30 after Yeldon drops a would be first down, and Bortles misses a well covered Moncrief in the end zone. 3-0 Jaguars.1:02 PM: Jags will receive the opening kick off, we’ll see the offense first.1:00 PM: It’s time!12:45 PM: 15 minutes and counting til kick off. Wanna know what myself and the rest of the BCC crew thinks happens today? Check out our game predictions, and keep the receipts.12:42 PM: He’s ready.12:22 PM: We will make this a weekly tradition Jacksonville Jaguars Hoodie , here’s Jalen’s cleats for today and OMG the sauce...11:50 AM: The Giants inactives are out, as expected Olivier Vernon is out and former Georgia Bulldog rookie Lorenzo Carter will start in his stead.11:43 AM: In case you had any doubts, King Jalen wants ALL the smoke..11:41 AM: LSU alumni embrace, but come 1 PM..11:40 AM: And here are the inactives for the Jaguars:11:30 AM: Welcome to the real deal everyone! We are an hour and a half from kick off and should be getting the inactives shortly. I wouldn’t expect any real surprises as the team was at full health as of Friday. It’s time! The Blake Bortles era is over in Jacksonville.It’s a decision that has to be made at this point to not only try and salvage a season that may already be lost, but more importantly, put some gauze on the bleeding of a ruptured locker room that is on the verge of splintering beyond repair.The foundation for this malcontent is no secret. When the team goes down by even a field goal, it feels like an insurmountable lead and it deflates the entire stadium and melts the Twitter timeline. In his five years as Jaguars quarterback, Blake Bortles has never shown the ability to elevate his teammates, and quite frankly, his ineptitude has had the opposite effect as it has pulled his teammates down into his quicksand of inefficacy. When you look around the league and see other quarterbacks like Andrew Luck leading come backs with the likes of Zach Pascal and Marcus Johnson catching the football behind a banged up offensive line, this only expands the microscope on Bortles and his flaws.Not only does Bortles require a perfect supporting cast to resemble something that looks like an NFL quarterback, his incompetence has begun to permeate into the other side of the football. Just like the entire fan base feels overwhelmed when the Jaguars start to fell behind in the score line, so does the defense. In the words of Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry, “that s*** is contagious.”It’s one thing not to be able to elevate his teammates, but it’s quite another to gift the football to the other team on a routine basis. The offense simplified itself and gave him a platform to retain his confidence that he mustered from his postseason run and concocted a West Coast recipe of short, high completion throws to try and hide his flaws. He’s spent copious amounts of his personal time to fix an elongated, unnatural release and wonky lower body mechanics only to see it regress to a beautiful disaster once the bullets start flying. It’s time to finally pull the plug onBlake being in Jacksonville for one reason and one reason alone.Quite simply, he’s lost his teammates.Make no mistake about it, Ramsey is saying what the entire team wants to say but can’t. They can’t go out and operate to the best of their ability when they know that Blake Bortles is going to muck it up. This is it. This is the final nail in the coffin. It’s one thing to lose fans — that’s usually the first piece of the puzzle. It’s one thing to lose media support — that usually comes next. It’s another thing to lose support from your coaching staff. That happened today. But when you lose your teammates? You can’t come back from that. Not only should Blake Bortles not play another game for this franchise, but he shouldn’t even be in the locker room at this point. The Jaguars’ front office needs to look in the mirror and admit that they made a huge mistake in re-signing a quarterback who is scheduled to carry a $21 million cap hit in 2019. It’s not so simple as to cut him Youth Customized Jacksonville Jaguars Jerseys , as his dead cap in doing so now would be $26.5 million and $16.5 million if you wait until after the season. What we are looking at is a scenario where the Jaguars take an L and trade away Bortles and his terrible deal.This was an idea that I first saw presented on the timeline this week by our guy Dilla (@e_dilla), and it makes perfect sense to do with a team that I mentioned at the beginning of the article in the Cleveland Browns. This is what I’m proposing — the Jaguars trade a 2019 second round pick and Blake Bortles to the Browns for Tyrod Taylor.The deal makes sense for a myriad of reasons:The Jaguars open up that cap space to retain their defensive linemen for 2019 and get out of the bad Bortles contract. It can even open up space to re-sign solid role players like T.J. Yeldon and A.J. Cann. Tyrod Taylor is a conservative quarterback who can competently operate Nathaniel Hackett’s west coast offense at a high level and doesn’t turn the ball over.The page is turned in the locker room and the players have a new captain to rally around on an offense that is bereft of leadership. If you’ve seen Hard Knocks this year, you know Taylor is a born leader who works harder than anyone on the team.Cody Kessler could start this week in Wembley and the timing with the bye week afterwards is favorable for Taylor to have two weeks to learn the playbook and potentially be ready for the Colts in week ten.Taylor can compete for the starting spot in 2019 and even beyond as a steward of the offense while the Jaguars draft and groom a first round college quarterback, whether that is in this draft or 2020.The Browns get a second round draft pick to help continue building weapons around Baker Mayfield for a player who is scheduled to be a free agent next year. That’s one round higher than the highest possible compensatory pick, which would be third round.The Browns have the most cap space in the NFL ($55 million and even more by losing Taylor) and can easily absorb Bortles’ contract. They are projected to have over $80 million in 2019 and can easily eat Bortles’ dead cap when cutting him.The Browns already have a veteran backup quarterback in Drew Stanton in the event Baker Mayfield gets hurt, and hell, they can even keep Bortles as a a backup.Additionally, there is precedent for a move like this in the NFL and the Browns specifically, as the Houston Texans traded away Brock Osweiler’s awful contract and a second rounder. Of course, this was done with the pre-John Dorsey regime when Sashi Brown was running the front office, but the Jaguars and Browns have become smitten as trade partners since Dorsey took over in their dealings for Cody Kessler and Carlos Hyde just this past week and can keep that pipeline flowing before the upcoming deadline at 4:00pm EST on October 30.I know, trades are always tricky in the NFL, and advocating for them is usually wasted breath. With this being said, an arrangement like this would behoove both parties. Tyrod Taylor really wants to play again, and he’s likely not going to get that opportunity in Cleveland this season unless Mayfield gets hurt. You can pound the table for a different player or debate compensation, but they have to do something to turn the page and help salvage a season that started with high expectations.Unfortunately, it’s finally that time to untie the boat from his dock on the St. John’s and let him float away.