TAMPA | This is what happens to a tortured franchise that can’t seem to get out of its own way. One bad play just blows up everything.
It figures that Corey Grant hadn’t fumbled a football since he was a future four-star prospect at Opelika (Ala.) High School. It was his freshman year, by Grant’s recollection. The Jaguars’ speed-burning back never put a ball on the ground (172 touches) during three seasons at Auburn, and didn’t have an issue with fumbling in training camp, preseason or through four regular-season games.
Then, at the worst possible time, when the Jaguars could least afford a killer mistake Sunday in the Desperation Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the calamity happened in a split-second sequence that may come to define another nightmare season.