It was a little over a month ago that it appeared the Jacksonville Jaguars were going to mail in the 2017 season.
Why?
It was all about the quarterback. In the modern NFL, you need a functional quarterback to be successful and everyone outside of Jacksonville was convinced Blake Bortles was not good enough to keep this team competitive. Bortles had just wrapped up a reportedly awful training camp and preseason, one in which is he was actually benched for Chad Henne in the pivotal third preseason game.
It was shocking when Doug Marrone came out and named Bortles the starter before the 4th preseason game.