Tyler likes to bet on the point total in the game. It was :56 There was a time when it was January. The TennesseeTitans defeated the JacksonvilleJaguars at home in the playoffs. They beat the Jags three times that season, handing them their only losses of the year. When the team moved from Houston to Nashville, Jeff Fisher was asked about playing home games in four stadiums in four years. If you include Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, we have had five home stadiums in four years. The beginning of the feud between the two teams can be traced back to the 1999 season. There was a spark that started the feud between the two teams.
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Tennessee has dominated the all-time series 33-22 and has won 11 of the past 15 meetings. The tides could change this weekend.
They have a chance to sweep the Titans on Saturday night at TIAA Bank Field. There is an hour on ABC/ESPN and an hour on ESPN.
If they do, the Jags will win the division for the second time in franchise history and knock their biggest rival out of the playoffs.
The preparation for this game has been going on for more than two decades.
Some people say that this is one of the biggest games since last year. "Not a lot of people have been a part of it, so it's going to be exciting to see their reaction."
The Pittsburgh Steelers were the top rival in the early days of the franchise because they were in the old AFC Central. The goal of the former coach/gm was to build a team that could beat the Pittsburgh team that had won the division in two of the previous three seasons.
Things did not stay the same in 1999.
TheJaguars went 14-2 in the regular season and lost both of their games to theTitans
Tennessee beat Buffalo in the wild-card round and then the Indianapolis Colts in the divisional round to get to the playoffs.
TheJaguars routed Miami in a divisional playoff game to set up a third clash against theTitans at Alltel Stadium TheTitans scored 26 unanswered points to beat theJaguars for the third time that season and advance to the Super Bowl.
A news conference was held five days before the Super Bowl.
Fisher said his dig was out of anger. There was only one week between the conference title games and the Super Bowl, so Fisher didn't like hearing from his crew that the Jaguars decals were already on the rental car fleet.
Fisher was tired of being asked about playing home games.
Fisher said that if he was asked one time, he would be asked twice that week. I don't know who asked the final question at the press conference, but he asked Steve what it was like to play in four different venues in four years. I said, "My name is Jeff." I told you that it was five if you included Alltel Stadium.
Is that correct? I did not think it would explode like it did.
It was 23 years ago that it happened.
Johnny McDonald said that he couldn't think of anyone that everybody hated more than Jeff Fisher.
The rivalry has gone beyond Fisher's dislike for him.
The past two decades have gone by.
John Caputo is the president of a fan club for the Jacksonville Jags. There is a hatred for the Jeff Fishers. Until last month, that was perpetuated by the last 10 years or so of them owning us.
For the past 20 years, there's been no, nothing we can do to change those feelings. They've had control of us. We haven't come close to hitting the types of blows that they hit on us.
There have been some bad times.
Like when Henry, who was born and raised in Yulee, Florida, a small town 25 miles north of Jacksonville, shook off three defenders on his way to a 99-yard touchdown run.
TheTitans have humiliated theJaguars on national TV before. They did it on a Thursday night in 2016 and it was a 36-22 win.
TheJaguars couldn't beat theTitans even in their best season in a long time. Even though they lost two games to Tennessee in the regular season, they still won the division and advanced to the title game.
TheJaguars snapped an eight-game losing streak to theTitans in Nashville last month with a 36-22 victory in a game that inspired the playoffs
The team's video crew was asked by coach Doug Pederson to show the players highlights of the rivalry between the two teams.
Since they've been on the team for only a year or two, the players appreciated the history lesson because they didn't know what Tennessee had done.
It's the suffering that makes rivalries happen.
Jones said that when he was a young player with the Bills, they didn't care about the Pats. After I was traded to the Raiders, I was supposed to hate the Chiefs immediately. I had no connection to it. I wasn't part of that culture. I lost to them so much that I had to say, "OK, enough is enough."
There will be no video this week because the game is more important than the rivalry, according to Pederson.
It's for a division title and a playoff spot, something that seemed far-fetched just two months ago, but it could be a sign that the balance of power in the South has shifted.
Pederson said that he didn't need to show a lot of videos to get motivated for the game.
Is that correct? It's a football game. You continue, you win.
Similar to 1999.
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