Sitting at 2-6, it’s fair to say there are plenty of reasons why the Jacksonville Jaguars are where they are.

Rollover issues, such as the two that appeared in the own domain area in Sunday’s 30-27 loss to the Green Bay Packers. A shaky defense, an inconsistent offense, holes on the roster. The list could go on.

But in reality, there is one thing that affects the Jaguars more than anything else. One thing that stands above any depth chart or coaching issues. And it reared its ugly head on Sunday.

Simply put, the Jaguars are in the middle of the third season of the Doug Pederson/Trent Baalke regime and still don’t know how to play complementary football,

“Complementary football. I think that’s all. We both have moments, big plays here and there to capitalize on, the defense gets a stop or the offense gets a touchdown, how do we respond as a defense?” Jaguars defensive end and captain Josh Hines-Allen said after Sunday’s loss.

“I think that’s something we need to be better at because obviously we play good football on both sides of the ball, we just need to complement each other a little bit better.”

Sunday’s last-second loss to the Packers was a perfect example of that. On the Packers’ first three drives, the Jaguars forced two punts and an interception in the red zone. The offense, however, came out lifeless and threw two interceptions of their own shortly after the Packers threw theirs.

Twice the Jaguars offense turned the ball over in its own territory. Two of the Packers’ three touchdown drives were 28 yards and five yards. The Jaguars offense just didn’t help their defense, which was already in poor shape.

Then, when the Jaguars put things together on offense, the defense fell apart. Trevor Lawrence led the Jaguars to a touchdown with his entire receiving corps injured. Two plays later, the Packers punted a pass nearly 60 yards to the Jaguars’ 15-yard line to set up an easy field goal.

“I think it’s just having the confidence that everybody’s doing what they’re supposed to do and everybody’s doing what they’re supposed to do when somebody’s making a play when the balls are coming to them and vice versa,” Hines-Allen said.

“I feel like, personally, when a big play was made and something happened to them, we had to respond. We’re not trying to figure it out, we’re just playing the ball, but we’re not doing… that one. A person from that track doesn’t, I don’t know I have to watch this tape.

The Jaguars have improved in recent weeks. There’s no denying that. If they played this Packers team a month ago, they probably would have been run off the field.

But at the end of the day, the NFL is a league of results. And with the Jaguars offense and defense taking turns holding the bag, the Jaguars will continue to find negative results.

“That sucks as a player and being part of the team you see the team come together and where we are in the last few weeks, we’ve really felt it, we’ve come together and played. more complementary and we give ourselves a chance,” said Trevor Lawrence after the game.

“Obviously there were too many mistakes today and we didn’t make enough plays at the end of the game to win it. I feel like the team is coming together, but we just have to find a way to go 3-6. and go win the week future. We can’t worry about what’s next. We just have to take a week at a time.”

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