Orchard Park, New York – Staff writer John Oehser, chief correspondent Brian Sexton and team reporter Kainani Stevens offer brief thoughts on the Jaguars’ 47-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills in a Week 3 2024 game at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Monday.

John Oehser, Senior Writer for the Jaguars…

1. That was really hard. Monday’s game was so one-sided that there was little room for analysis. What about a prime-time game of this magnitude, in which one team scores touchdowns on all five of its first-half possessions and outscores its opponent 288-70? The thinking from this perspective was that the Jaguars would come out Monday with a lot of energy and play well early. That’s what you expect from a prime-time audience. It’s especially what you expect when a win means putting an 0-2 start in the rearview mirror and setting the tone for the season. The Jaguars didn’t come close to playing that way on Monday. They were lethargic early on for the second straight week. The Cleveland Browns could only convert that lethargy into a 13-3 lead, and the Jaguars were slow to get back into that game. The Bills are a potent team who parlayed the Jaguars’ slow start into a stunning 31-point halftime lead that seemed—and was—insurmountable. “I feel like the guys are ready,” head coach Doug Pederson said. “I feel like at the end of the week, there’s energy. Then it doesn’t translate to the game. That’s the part that bothers me. You see how hard they work, what they put into the week. It doesn’t translate. Those are the things I have to figure out.” What to analyze? Not much. Nothing to do but move forward and hope it gets better. Somehow.
2. What now? That’s a fair question, and Pederson acknowledged as much after the Jaguars’ ninth loss in the last 10 games. The Jaguars are now 0-3, two games behind the Houston Texans in the AFC South. “We’re three weeks in, and we’re not very good right now,” Pederson said. “This is who we are right now, and it’s not very good.” Pederson pointed to the next two games as AFC South games — Sunday at Houston and at home against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 5 — and if the Jaguars win those games, they could indeed move quickly into AFC South contention. But he also acknowledged several times that the Jaguars aren’t a good team right now — and he specifically said there could be changes this week. “I don’t necessarily think you go the other way,” he said. “There’s got to be changes. Whether it’s game design, personnel … everything’s on the table. Let’s call it. Those are all things that I have to look at, and we have to look at as a staff.” It’s a short week. It could also be a newsworthy week. Stay tuned.