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

John Oehser, Jaguars Senior Writer…

1. This was really rough. Such was the one-sided nature of Monday's game that it left little reason for analysis. What to say about a prime-time game of this importance in which one team scores touchdowns on all five first-half possessions and out-gains the opponent 288-70? The thought from this view was the Jaguars would enter Monday with great energy and play well early. That's what you expect in front of a prime-time audience. That's particularly what you expect when a victory means putting an 0-2 start in the rear view and resetting the tone for the season. The Jaguars didn't come close to playing that way Monday. They were listless early for the second consecutive week. The Cleveland Browns could only parlay that listlessness into a 13-3 lead and the Jaguars inched their way back into that game. The Bills are a powerful team that 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 by the end of the week there's energy. Then it's not translating to the game. That's the part that bothers me. You see how hard they work, what they put into week. It's not translating. Those are the things I've got to figure out." What to analyze? Not much. Nothing to do but move forward and hope it improves. Somehow.
2. What now? That's a fair question, and Pederson acknowledged as much in the aftermath of 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 – at Houston Sunday and home against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 5 – and if the Jaguars win those games, they indeed can move into contention quickly in the AFC South. But he also acknowledged multiple times that the Jaguars aren't a good team right now – and he notably said there could be changes this week. "I don't necessarily think you go in the opposite direction," he said. "There has to be changes. Whether it's play design, personnel … Everything's on the table. Let's call it. Those are all things I have to look at, and we have to look at as a staff." It's a short week. It also could be a newsworthy week. Stay tuned.

Brian Sexton, Jaguars Senior Correspondent…

1. "Turn out the lights, the party's over." If you're old enough, you remember Dandy Don Meredith humming the tune late in the Monday Night Football broadcast when the outcome was all but decided. It felt that way at several moments in the first half in Buffalo: When the Jaguars answered the Bills' first touchdown with a three and out; when Bills quarterback Josh Allen threw his second, third and fourth touchdown passes; when Lawrence threw that wild pitch of a pass that Bills safety Damar Hamlin made his first career interception. The party was over early in Buffalo and it's hard not to feel as if the party is already over this season. That was an awful performance by a team that had every reason to go to Buffalo and play hard and play well.
2. The little things at the biggest moments keep killing this team. A week ago, running back D'Ernest Johnson was flagged for an illegal shift which negated a wide receiver Christian Kirk touchdown in the third quarter when the game was very much in doubt. It was a game-changing moment. The Jags had a chance to get back into the Bills game early in the second quarter down 13-0. They had a nice drive going and faced first-and-five and the Bills' 19-yard line. Running back Tank Bigsby's six-yard run gave them a first-and-10 at the Buffalo 13-yard line and it looked as if they would have a shot at the end zone – except left tackle Cam Robinson was lined up illegally. They misfired on the next three plays and settled for a field goal when a touchdown might have made it a game. That mental error and a few others like it don't show up in the statistics, but they told the story of the loss in Buffalo.

Kainani Stevens, Jaguars Team Reporter/Producer ..

1. Embarrassing. I said on Jags A.M. this week that if the players couldn't get juiced up for Monday Night Football, then there is something wrong with them. Monday night we learned there are many things wrong with the Jaguars. The defense, which had looked decent the first two weeks, allowed 34 points in the first half and did not force a punt until the fourth quarter. The offense was no better as the Jaguars did not find the end zone until the third quarter. This was a team that looked listless in their home opener against the Browns and somehow downgraded to looking completely apathetic on primetime. Humiliation on a national stage.
2. Something has to give. I don't know what needs to change, but I know nothing is working right now for the Jags. Coaching nor players are immune from these future changes. This is a season in which Jaguars owner Shad Khan said he expects to "win now," and the Jaguars have done everything but that so far this season. These kinds of performances won't continue much longer without accountability and now it's a waiting game to see what the first changes will be.