Jacksonville Jaguars' defense again standing out in this crucial area

Over the Jacksonville Jaguars' last two games, the defense has once again been generating takeaways at a high rate.

Against Tennessee in Week 13, the Jaguars' defense came away with two turnovers. This past week against Indianapolis, Jacksonville forced three more.

To state the obvious, turnovers are great. They can take points off the board for the opponent, limit possessions, and can set the defense's own offense up with good field position.

However, to truly maximize what takeaways can provide, complementary football is required. Or another way to put it, the offense then needs to turn those takeaways from the defense into points -- which the Jaguars have also done.

Of those five takeaways over the last two games, the Jaguars' offense has produced three touchdowns.

"Our defense did an unbelievable job again creating turnovers, and we were able to take advantage of them," said Liam Coen, via Jaguars.com.

After the Jaguars recorded a whopping 14 turnovers in their first five games, they mustered only four over the next six games. As ESPN's Bill Barnwell noted, during that six-game stretch, the Jaguars were 3-3 and dropped from sixth in EPA (expected points added) per play to 19th.

That pendulum has since swung back in favor of the Jaguars' defense in recent weeks.

Fourth down stops don't count the same as an interception or a fumble recovery, but in a way, those are turnovers as well, and this is another area where the Jaguars' defense has been quite good.

The Titans and Colts were a combined 1-for-5 on fourth down attempts against Jacksonville.

Statistically speaking, the team that wins the turnover battle often wins the game, and the Jaguars' defense is finding ways to give the ball back to their offense.

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: One key behind Jacksonville Jaguars' success in recent games