​The Jacksonville Jaguars’ 20-13 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sept. 20 at Empower Field at Mile High was, in a way, a death by a thousand cuts.Well, hardly a thousand. But there were no highlight-reel plays, devastating in-game injuries, or one opposing player dominating the game that led to the Jags’ first loss in their last 10 regular-season games.Denver didn’t rally from 19 points down in the final period, as Houston did last year. The Broncos didn’t stage a 92-yard scoring drive late in the game to come from behind, as Cincinnati did last year. And they didn’t blow the Jags out, as the Los Angeles Rams did last year.What happened to the Jaguars in Denver was a series of events that individually weren’t game-changing, but stacked on each other, turned a 13-3 lead and a crowd that seemed to go pouty en masse into every NFL team’s fear: Momentum, with the volume turned up to the max.A lot of it came because the Jaguars didn’t practice what coach Liam Coen preaches: Situational and complementary football. Whether it was the special teams allowing good field position on two Denver scores, Trevor Lawrence’s first interception in eight games when the offense was driving at midfield, or the Broncos running the ball effectively in the fourth quarter with their third-team back, a rookie drafted in the fourth round, Denver kept building on each sequence until it had the lead and was in the victory formation.The good news is that it’s only Week 2 and the issues are fixable before the New England Patriots come to town Sept. 27 at EverBank Stadium (CBS, 1 p.m.).”I’m proud of the team in terms of the effort,” Coen said during his post-game radio show. “I don’t think we let our foot off the gas in terms of the way we were calling it, the way we were operating. We just got to find a way to make a play.”Brian Thomas Jr. drops rear their ugly head againOne of the things that stalled the offense was the return of the slippery substance on the hands of wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. Thomas didn’t drop sure touchdown passes in the end zone. There was plenty of time left in the game after the second drop.But it wasn’t a good sign for a player who battled ball security issues last season.Thomas’ first drop came on a first-down play from the Jaguars’ 38, after Parker Washington returned a punt 12 yards. Had Thomas caught the ball, it would have been a gain of at least 6 yards and perhaps more.The second drop came in the fourth quarter, one play after Lawrence and Jakobi Meyers connected on a 28-yard pass to the Broncos 38 after Denver had tied the game 13-13. If Thomas catches the ball, the Jaguars have a first down at the Denver 25.Trevor Lawrence’s interceptionIt was only one turnover, and it was Lawrence’s second in eight games. But even having to punt in that situation would have been better.With a 13-6 lead, the Jaguars had a third-and-six at midfield with the end of the third quarter winding down. Lawrence underthrew a pass to Washington (seven receptions, 98 y