Jaguars score first touchdown at home this season ... in Week 11

A very wide-open Danny Noble scores Jacksonville's first home touchdown of the season. Ladies and gentlemen, the Jacksonville Jaguars have officially gone

Doug Farrar | Nov 17, 2013

Jaguars score first touchdown at home this season ... in Week 11 /

A very wide-open Danny Noble scores Jacksonville's first home touchdown of the season.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Jacksonville Jaguars have officially gone from pathetic to pesky. One week after they logged their first win in what many assumed would be an o-16 season by beating the Tennessee Titans 29-27, the Jags went up 7-0 on the Arizona Cardinals at home with a neat little trick play.

On 4th-and-1 from his own 38-yard line, quarterback Chad Henne took the snap in an I-formation set, and the Cards responded by putting all 11 of their defenders at or near the line of scrimmage. At the snap, fullback Will Ta'ufo'ou ran out to the left on a wheel route, while halfback Maurice Jones-Drew laid a crushing block on linebacker Karlos Dansby to set the right edge, giving Henne the time he needed to throw to receiver Danny Noble at the 50-yard line. There was no coverage in place, so Noble was able to run without any opposition for about 40 yards. Cornerback Patrick Peterson caught up to him, but Noble shook the tackle and rumbled into the end zone.

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Published Nov 17, 2013

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.