JACKSONVILLE Dawuane Smoot Jersey , Fla. (AP) — Of all the things that went right for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2017, turnovers were at the top of the list.The Jaguars took care of the ball, especially in the postseason, and ranked second in the league with 33 takeaways. They finished the regular season at plus-10 in turnover margin, tied for fifth in the NFL.They’re nowhere close to that these days.The Jaguars (3-3) have been careless with the football through six games and have done considerably less to create fumbles and interceptions.The result: Jacksonville sits next to last in turnover margin, a minus-9 ratio that was a key part of consecutive blowout road losses to Kansas City and Dallas.Finding a way to end the trend Sunday against Houston (3-3) could be the difference between first place in the AFC South and a three-game losing streak.“We’re definitely not helping ourselves out by any means,” quarterback Blake Bortles said. “We are getting unlucky. Not only are we not helping ourselves, but we are also getting some bad bounces, and that is part of it.“We will start creating our own good fortune, and I think with that we will start getting some breaks and some bounces will go our way as well.”The Jaguars could use some better fortune, especially since they are without their top two left tackles, their top two tight ends, two of their top three running backs and their leading receiver from a year ago. The rash of injuries has hampered the offense so much that it failed to score in the first half of the past two games.And the usually stout defense has done little, if anything, to pick up the slack. The unit allowed a combined 802 yards, 63 points and 49 first downs against the Chiefs and Cowboys.“We haven’t lost our confidence,” defensive tackle Malik Jackson said. “I think it’s a reality check. We understand who we are. We know who we are. I think a lot of us are leaning on the accolades.“We want to be Pro Bowlers. We have to be All-Pros. We want to be this, but we have to understand that we just have to play like we did last year, just stay carefree, and the less you care about your accolades off the field, the more we’ll win as a team.”The Texans have won three in a row in dramatic fashion. They won twice in overtime and beat Buffalo last week thanks to Johnathan Joseph’s interception return for a touchdown in the waning minutes.Houston hasn’t won four in a row since 2015.Beating Jacksonville could come down to how well Houston’s offensive line plays. The Texans allowed 14 sacks in two lopsided losses to the Jaguars last season and have allowed 25 in six games this season, the second-most in the league.Quarterback Deshaun Watson played last week with a partially collapsed lung and a broken rib.“I’m fine now. I’m healthy,” he said. “I’m cleared to practice, cleared to do everything. I’m good.”Bortles should be wary, too. He has been sacked eight times in the past two games while playing behind an injury-riddled line. And now the Jaguars have to deal with J.J. Watt and Jadeveon Clowney.Equally concerning are the team’s 14 turnovers and five takeaways.“It has not been what we wanted or what we expected or planned for,” Bortles said. “Everybody knows that. You learn from it, you put it in the past and you move on. You have to find a way to get back on track and get back to playing like we did against the Jets or against New England or late last year. That is all we are focusing on: getting back to playing the kind of football and the execution level that we know we can do.”Here are some other things to know about the Texans and Jaguars:BACK TO BASICSJaguars coach Doug Marrone focused on fundamentals in practice all week, with several players saying they essentially returned to training camp mode in Week 7. Some might consider it a desperation move, but Marrone defended his decision to go back to square one.“Anytime you see football being played as poorly as we have been playing https://www.jaguarsfanstore.com/Taven-Bryan-Jersey , then it comes down to fundamentals,” he said. “That is my philosophy.”HAL RETURNSTexans safety Andre Hal, who is in remission after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, resumed practicing this week. He won’t play against the Jaguars, but gave the team an emotional lift this week. Hal was diagnosed with the disease in May and immediately began treatment.“I’m in the best shape of my life just from working out all the time, eating right, getting closer to God, getting closer to myself, finding out who I am, stuff like that,” Hal said. “I’m a better person.”PASSING LEAGUEWatson and Bortles have three games each with at least 375 yards passing this season. The Jacksonville Jaguars offense has been in a state of disarray the past two weeks, and in reality for every game outside of two this season. The offense looked great against a slow New England Patriots defense, eating them up with crossing patterns, and had some explosive plays against the New York Jets, but outside of that the offense has left a lot to be desired.A big part of that has been the play of Blake Bortles, who quite frankly hasn’t been very good outside of those two games and was pretty bad the last two weeks. But it’s not all Bortles’ fault.There are shortcomings around him on the offensive line, players dropping the ball, and some weird play calling tendencies, but he himself also struggles and exacerbates the rest of the issues on the offense. Bortles has also fallen back into his windup being a big issue and leading to a lot of batted passes at the line, which in turn has also lead to an uptick in interceptions because of balls tipped in the air. There’s also been some case of where it’s clear Bortles is determining where he’s going with the ball before it’s even snapped, which has led to some ugly interceptions like the one on Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys into triple coverage.But we don’t need to hash out where Bortles ranks in average-ness, how good or bad he is, or even how much of the blame pie he should be getting. It’s not all his fault. There have been some issues on the offensive line and some of the receivers have dropped passes, or just outright aren’t what they thought they were getting as a replacement for certain plays. But he is the starting quarterback in his fifth season in the NFL and recently signed a contract extension, so he’s going to get the brunt of the criticism.A big problem with Bortles’ struggles however have to do with how the team built the offense around him — he was almost doomed from the start and it should have been clear there was a non-zero chance of that happening.If you look back at how the Jaguars approached the offensive side of the ball, it’s kind of stunning. I think we can all agree that Bortles falls in the below-to-average area of quarterbacks in the NFL and he needs success around him to do well. He will have a few spikes where he just shreds a team when everything goes right, but if stuff around him is failing you’re going to see him really struggle. He’s just not a guy who’s going to elevate those around him and that’s fine. You can win with those guys, but you have to really insulate them from being relied upon.That’s somewhere the Jaguars failed this season. I recently wrote about how the injuries for the Jaguars shouldn’t be the cause for tanking the offense, and I still stand by that Myles Jack Color Rush Jersey , but when you couple those injuries with the gambles the front office took this offseason, it’s clear why you’re getting what they’re showing on offense.Getting rid of good wide receiversThe first big gamble was moving on from wide receiver Allen Robinson and paying both Marqise Lee and Donte Moncrief. I don’t want to re-hash the whole argument again and I’m not going to pretend Robinson is lighting it up in Chicago (though, considering he’s coming off the ACL he’s doing just fine) but the Jaguars offense clearly misses his ability to make contested catches. The team currently doesn’t have a player on the roster who can do that with some consistency and they continue to try throwing them to Moncrief even though it clearly does not work and is not something he’s great at.Then you paid Marqise Lee, who has been hurt every single season he’s been in the NFL and even when he’s healthy has been pretty average. Regardless, while it was a surprise Lee suffered a season ending injury in the preseason, it shouldn’t have been a surprise he ended up missing time. He has every single season he’s been in the league. I understand once the team let Robinson walk they had to do something at the position, but paying Lee and Moncrief has currently blown up in their face.(Note: Since it’s always asked, according to my sources, the Jaguars had a similar offer on the table for Robinson to that of what he signed for in Chicago, but the Jags offer hinged on a lot of incentives where as Chicago’s didn’t.)Revamping the tight end positionAnother area the team took a big gamble on was the tight end position. It’s a position they haven’t utilized much with Blake Bortles, but when the team signed Austin Seferian-Jenkins we thought we’d have a nice one-two tight end combo with he and Marcedes Lewis, but then the Jaguars inexplicably released Lewis late into free agency. The team added Niles Paul (now on IR as well) as a special teams guy and depth at tight end, but otherwise left the tight end position untouched and kept only three tight ends on the roster. This is a team that wants to primarily run the football and they cut a useful blocking tight end, went light at tight end and the tight ends they did keep were primarily of the receiving variety.Going light at running backThen you have the gamble at the running back position that has been an issue for a few weeks. The team entered the season in essence with two true running backs, both of which have had issues staying healthy in their NFL careers. It was very odd that the team not only kept six wide receivers, only three tight ends, and then only three (two) running backs as a team that wanted to run the football.Where do we go from here?So you know that you have a limited quarterback who is going to need help around him, but you take huge gambles at receiver, tight end, and running back. I’m sure they were calculated gambles, but it’s not like these weren’t questioned in the moment. There was lots of discussions around letting Robinson walk and the receiver position. Lots of discussions about releasing Marcedes Lewis and not really filling his role and lots of discussion about the curious decision to only keep three running backs on the final 53-man roster.We all know Blake Bortles has limitations and needs help around him. We all know when he’s not getting that help the chances of the offense being a disaster is high. The Jaguars front office should know this too, which makes their gambles and that more head scratching. They present themselves and talk about wanting to be a run first football team and just need Bortles to not turn the ball over, but then a lot of the moves they made this offseason flew in the face of that.The gambles they took on the offensive side of the ball in the moment were peculiar and as it stands right now, appear to being going bust. There isn’t much the team can do in the moment to rectify some of these issues and as long as the offense continues to struggle, it’s going to bleed into the defense struggling and in turn will produce some ugly results.In short, the Jaguars need to figure out how to effectively score points on offense with what they have, and they need to do it quickly.

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