GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NFL: SAN DIEGO (5-4) at JACKSONVILLE (6-3)

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Ticker) -- David Garrard threw twotouchdown passes in his return to the lineup and safety SammyKnight intercepted Philip Rivers with 1:26 left as theJacksonville Jaguars held on for a 24-17 victory over the SanDiego Chargers on Sunday.


Garrard missed three games since sustaining a high-ankle sprainon October 22 against the Indianapolis Colts. In his absence,Quinn Gray led the Jaguars to a 2-1 record, including a critical28-13 victory over the Tennessee Titans last week.

In his return, Garrard directed the Jaguars (7-3) to 10first-quarter points. Placekicker Josh Scobee opened thescoring with a 48-yard field goal, and halfback MauriceJones-Drew scored from 1-yard out to put Jacksonville ahead,10-0.


The Chargers (5-5) got on the board in the second quarter with a23-yard field goal by Nate Kaeding, but Garrard struck rightback.


On the ensuing possession, Garrard capped off a nine-play,73-yard drive with a 36-yard scoring pass to wide receiverReggie Williams with 4:33 left in the second quarter to put theJaguars ahead, 17-3, at the half.


The teams traded touchdowns in the third quarter, with Chargershalfback LaDainian Tomlinson scoring on a 6-yard run to open thesecond half.


Jacksonville answered later in the third quarter when Garrardthrew a 1-yard scoring pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis to makeit 24-10.


Garrard finished 15-of-24 for 189 yards. Halfback Fred Taylorrushed 20 times for 85 yards to lead Jacksonville's ground game.

San Diego pulled within a touchdown with 5:13 left when Riversthrew a 24-yard TD pass to tight end Antonio Gates.

But after forcing Jacksonville to punt, Rivers was interceptedby Knight to close things out.


Rivers finished 22-of-40 for 309 yards and two interceptions.Tomlinson rushed 16 times for 62 yards and also caught fivepasses for 93 yards.

 

NFL: SAN DIEGO at JACKSONVILLE

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
SAN DIEGO 0 3 7 7 17
JACKSONVILLE 10 7 7 0 24 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

5:48 JAC - FG, JOSH SCOBEE 48 YD.
Drive: 12 plays, 46 yards in 5:48.
Key plays: Garrard 8-yard pass to Northcutt on 3rd-and-7 to
Jacksonville 35; Jones-Drew 4-yard run on 3rd-and-1 to Jacksonville 48;
Garrard 15-yard pass to Wilford to San Diego 37. JACKSONVILLE 3-0.
14:20 JAC - TD, MAURICE JONES-DREW 1 YD RUN (JOSH SCOBEE KICK).
Drive: 11 plays, 48 yards in 5:19.
Key plays: Northcutt 25-yard punt return to San Diego 48; Taylor
13-yard run to San Diego 35; Jones-Drew 15-yard run to San Diego 20;
Garrard 1-yard run on 4th-and-1 to San Diego 10. JACKSONVILLE 10-0.

2ND QUARTER:

5:02 SDG - FG, NATE KAEDING 23 YD.
Drive: 12 plays, 75 yards in 5:42.
Key plays: Neal 1-yard run on 3rd-and-1 to San Diego 30; Rivers
14-yard pass to Davis to San Diego 49; Rivers 44-yard pass to Chambers on
3rd-and-13 to Jacksonville 10. JACKSONVILLE 10-3.
9:35 JAC - TD, REGGIE WILLIAMS 36 YD PASS FROM DAVID GARRARD (JOSH SCOBEE KICK).
Drive: 9 plays, 73 yards in 4:33.
Key plays: Garrard 2-yard pass to Wrighster on 3rd-and-2 to
Jacksonville 37; Garrard 16-yard pass to Wilford on 3rd-and-7 to San Diego
36. JACKSONVILLE 17-3.

3RD QUARTER:

1:41 SDG - TD, LADAINIAN TOMLINSON 6 YD RUN (NATE KAEDING KICK).
Drive: 5 plays, 60 yards in 1:41.
Key plays: Rivers 20-yard pass to Jackson to Jacksonville 40; Rivers
34-yard pass to Tomlinson to Jacksonville 6. JACKSONVILLE 17-10.
9:58 JAC - TD, MARCEDES LEWIS 1 YD PASS FROM DAVID GARRARD (JOSH SCOBEE KICK).
Drive: 5 plays, 87 yards in 2:59.
Key plays: Garrard 22-yard pass to Northcutt to Jacksonville 37;
Garrard 36-yard pass to Wrighster to San Diego 27; Garrard 26-yard pass to
Williams to San Diego 1. JACKSONVILLE 24-10.

4TH QUARTER:

9:54 SDG - TD, ANTONIO GATES 24 YD PASS FROM PHILIP RIVERS (NATE KAEDING KICK).
Drive: 7 plays, 90 yards in 1:57.
Key plays: Rivers 20-yard pass to Chambers to San Diego 30; Rivers
11-yard pass to Tomlinson to San Diego 41; Rivers 20-yard pass to Chambers
plus 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on Jaguars' Nelson to
Jacksonville 24. JACKSONVILLE 24-17.

SAN DIEGO - JACKSONVILLE Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS SAN DIEGO JACKSONVILLE

FIRST DOWNS 18 18
Rushing 6 8
Passing 11 9
Penalty 1 1
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 4-12-33% 5-14-36%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-2-50% 2-2-100%
TOTAL NET YARDS 388 311
Total offensive plays 60 61
Average gain per play 6.5 5.1
NET YARDS RUSHING 79 122
Rushing attempts 20 37
Average gain per rush 4.0 3.3
Tackles for loss-yards 2-2 1-5
NET YARDS PASSING 309 189
Times sacked: Number-Yards 0-0 0-0
Gross passing yards 309 189
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 40-22-2 24-15-0
Avg gain per pass play 7.7 7.9
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 4-0-0 5-3-2
PUNTS: Number and Average 4-44.8 5-40.6
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 40.5 33.0
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 17 77
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 3-17 2-38
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 2-15 4-71
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 0-0 2-39
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 4-31 5-42
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 0-0 0-0
TOUCHDOWNS 2 3
Rushing 1 1
Passing 1 2
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 0 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 2-2 3-3
Kicking: Made-Attempts 2-2 3-3
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 1-1 1-1
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 1-2-50% 2-2-100%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 1-2-50% 2-2-100%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 27:03 32:57


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

SAN DIEGO JACKSONVILLE

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
L TOMLINSO 16 62 3.9 19 1 F TAYLOR 20 85 4.3 13 0
P RIVERS 2 16 8.0 10 0 M JONES-DR 12 33 2.8 15 1
L NEAL 2 1 0.5 1 0 D GARRARD 5 4 0.8 7 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
P RIVERS 22-40-309 2 1 44 D GARRARD 15-24-189 0 2 36

Sacked-Yards Lost: None Sacked-Yards Lost: None

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
L TOMLINSO 5 93 18.6 35 0 G WRIGHSTE 5 47 9.4 36 0
C CHAMBERS 4 93 23.3 44 0 D NORTHCUT 3 36 12.0 22 0
A GATES 4 54 13.5 24 1 R WILLIAMS 2 62 31.0 36 1
C DAVIS 3 39 13.0 16 0 E WILFORD 2 31 15.5 16 0
L NAANEE 3 10 3.3 4 0 G ESTANDIA 1 8 8.0 8 0
D SPROLES 2 0 0.0 0 0 M JONES-DR 1 4 4.0 4 0
V JACKSON 1 20 20.0 20 0 M LEWIS 1 1 1.0 1 1

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R NELSON 1 34 34.0 34 0
S KNIGHT 1 5 5.0 5 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
M SCIFRES 4 179 44.8 0 2 63 A PODLESH 5 203 40.6 0 1 49

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
D SPROLES 3 17 5.7 7 0 D NORTHCUTT 2 38 19.0 25 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
D SPROLES 2 15 7.5 15 0 M JONES-DREW 4 71 17.8 26 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
N KAEDING 2/2 1/1 J SCOBEE 3/3 1/1
Dist.: 23 Dist.: 48

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
Fumbles: None

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
S PHILLIPS 10 10 0 0-0 M PETERSON 6 5 1 0-0
M MCCREE 8 8 0 0-0 B WILLIAMS 5 5 0 0-0
M WILHELM 7 6 1 0-0 R NELSON 5 5 0 0-0
R BINGHAM 5 4 1 0-0 P SPICER 3 3 0 0-0
J WILLIAMS 3 3 0 0-0 R MATHIS 3 3 0 0-0
S COOPER 3 2 1 0-0 D SMITH 3 2 1 0-0
D FLORENCE 3 2 1 0-0 C INGRAM 3 2 1 0-0
J CESAIRE 2 2 0 0-0 T COUSIN 2 2 0 0-0
C HART 2 1 1 0-0 S STARKS 2 2 0 0-0
I OLSHANSKY 1 1 0 0-0 J MINCEY 2 2 0 0-0
Q JAMMER 1 1 0 0-0 S KNIGHT 2 2 0 0-0
S MERRIMAN 1 1 0 0-0 J HENDERSON 2 1 1 0-0
T DOBBINS 1 1 0 0-0 R HAYWARD 1 1 0 0-0
S GREGORY 1 1 0 0-0 G JACKSON 1 1 0 0-0
B MCKINNEY 1 1 0 0-0 D LANDRI 1 1 0 0-0
R MEIER 1 0 1 0-0
J FUDGE 1 0 1 0-0

Officials: Referee-Larry Nemmers, Umpire-Carl Paganelli, Head
Linesman-Mark Baltz, Line Judge-Mike Spanier, Field Judge-Eddie
Powers, Side Judge-Cartlon Cheffers, Back Judge-Dino Paganelli.

Att: 66,732 Time of Game: 3:01</div>

 

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Ticker) -- David Garrard threw twotouchdown passes in his return to the lineup and safety SammyKnight intercepted Philip Rivers with 1:26 left as theJacksonville Jaguars held on for a 24-17 victory over the SanDiego Chargers on Sunday.


Garrard had missed three games since sustaining a high-anklesprain on October 22 against the Indianapolis Colts. In hisabsence, Quinn Gray led the Jaguars to a 2-1 record, including acritical 28-13 victory over the Tennessee Titans last week.

In his return, Garrard directed the Jaguars (7-3) to 10first-quarter points. Placekicker Josh Scobee opened thescoring with a 48-yard field goal, and halfback MauriceJones-Drew scored from 1-yard out to put Jacksonville ahead,10-0.


"David played well," Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said. "He cameoff the three-week break with the ankle very sharp and made someplays down the field and protected the ball."


The Chargers (5-5) got on the board in the second quarter with a23-yard field goal by Nate Kaeding, but Garrard struck rightback.


On the ensuing possession, Garrard capped off a nine-play,73-yard drive with a 36-yard scoring pass to wide receiverReggie Williams with 4:33 left in the second quarter to put theJaguars ahead, 17-3, at the half.


The teams traded touchdowns in the third quarter, with Chargershalfback LaDainian Tomlinson scoring on a 6-yard run to open thesecond half.


"He (Tomlinson) is really tough to defend and tough to slowdown," Del Rio said. "The more carries he gets, the harder itgets to get him slowed down. That was one of our keys cominginto the game."


Jacksonville answered later in the third quarter when Garrardthrew a 1-yard scoring pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis to makeit 24-10.


"(Lewis) should have a few more (TDs)," Garrard said. "I thinkI have overthrown him on a few of those balls down in the redzone. He threw his hand up, I knew he was wide open."

Garrard finished 15-of-24 for 189 yards. Halfback Fred Taylorrushed 20 times for 85 yards to lead Jacksonville's ground game.

San Diego pulled within a touchdown with 5:13 left when Riversthrew a 24-yard TD pass to tight end Antonio Gates.

But after forcing Jacksonville to punt, Rivers was interceptedby Knight to close things out.


"This is a confident defense and we are all confident players,"Knight said. "We know when we're put in position, we can makeplays."


Rivers finished 22-of-40 for 309 yards and two interceptions.Tomlinson rushed 16 times for 62 yards and also caught fivepasses for 93 yards.


"We've spend the last three weeks out on the road, it's good tobe back in front of our crowd," Del Rio said. "It's been a longtime and this was a big win here at home."