| 1999 Jacksonville Jaguars season | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Tom Coughlin |
| Home field | Alltel Stadium |
| Results | |
| Record | 14–2 |
| Division place | 1st AFC Central |
| Playoff finish | Won Divisional Playoffs (vs. Dolphins) 62–7 Lost AFC Championship (vs. Titans) 14–33 |
| Pro Bowlers | T Tony Boselli T Leon Searcy WR Jimmy Smith QB Mark Brunell DE Tony Brackens LB Kevin Hardy FS Carnell Lake |
| Uniform | |
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The 1999 season was the Jacksonville Jaguars' 5th in the National Football League and their fifth under head coach Tom Coughlin. Wide receiver Jimmy Smith set a franchise record for most receptions and receiving yards in one season. Smith would finish second in the NFL in receiving yards with 1,636 yards.[1] The Jaguars’ regular season record of 14–2 still stands as their best record in franchise history. This would be the last time Jacksonville made the playoffs until 2005, the last season the team won a playoff game until 2007 and the last time the Jaguars won any division title until they won the AFC South title in 2017.
The Jaguars hired former Carolina Panthers head coach Dom Capers to be their defensive coordinator. Under Capers, the team went from 25th in 1998 to 4th in 1999 in total defense.[2] The Jaguars defense yielded the fewest points in the NFL with 217 (an average of 13.6 points per game).[2]
Pro Football Reference,[3] however, argues that the 1999 Jaguars had the fifth-easiest schedule of any NFL team between 1971 and 2017.[note 1] Both regular season losses were to the Tennessee Titans, and they lost again to Tennessee in the AFC Championship Game, making the Titans the only team to beat them the entire season; Jacksonville would not reach the AFC Championship again until 2017. The only other occasion the Jaguars opposed a team with a winning record was their 62–7 demolition of the Miami Dolphins in the divisional playoff. Most significantly, Jacksonville missed Super Bowl champion St. Louis, despite defeating the other four teams then comprising the NFC West – including a 41–3 destruction of the San Francisco 49ers on opening day – while their non-division conference opponents were Broncos and Jets squads weakened by injuries to Terrell Davis and Vinny Testaverde.[4]
- ^ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 440
- ^ a b NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p.92
- ^ Pro Football Reference; 1999 Jacksonville Jaguars
- ^ Silver, Michael; ‘Ram Tough’; Sports Illustrated, vol. 92, issue 1, p. 48
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