Unsteady quarterback play also contributed. Injuries became a major factor quickly that year. But I never got the feeling the 2018 team's disintegration had much to do with the end of the previous season. Would they have been as motivated for that New England game had they beaten the Patriots in the previous year's AFC Championship Game? Hard to say. That '18 team began the season as a motivated team, starting 3-1 with a resounding victory over the defending AFC Champion New England Patriots. That theory aside, I don't know how different 2018 would have played out had the Jaguars won the Super Bowl following the 2017 season. While a franchise quarterback can be re-signed and form the foundation for long-term success, teams built as the Jaguars were built – with an elite defense – are harder to hold together for the long term. That is often the case in the NFL these days when teams succeed without a franchise quarterback. The 2017 Jaguars were in retrospect a team constructed for the moment rather than the long haul. This is, of course, an impossible question to answer definitively – but my belief is a Super Bowl title in 2017 wouldn't have changed the Jaguars' future much.
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