Jaguars run their way to blowout

Fred Taylor slipped through the defensive line, cut right and gained 76 yards before Jason David caught up and made a touchdown-saving tackle.

“I wasn’t warmed up yet,” Taylor said.

Indeed, Taylor and the Jacksonville Jaguars were just getting started.

Maurice Jones-Drew ran for a career-high 166 yards and two touchdowns, Taylor had 131 yards and a score before leaving with a sore right hamstring and the Jaguars ran the Indianapolis Colts out of town and maybe out of contention for home-field advantage in the AFC with a surprising 44-17 victory Sunday.

The Jaguars (8-5) finished with 375 yards rushing, tied for the second most in the NFL since the 1970 merger and the most since Cincinnati gained 407 yards against Denver on Oct. 22, 2000.

“I haven’t seen anything like that since I watched NFL films,” Jaguars defensive end Paul Spicer said.

The Colts (10-3) spent much of the week working on tackling, trying to solidify the league’s worst run defense and solve their biggest weakness. Instead, they were worse than ever.

The Colts were looking to clinch their fourth consecutive division title.

Now, they’re trying to regroup from a third loss in four games and wondering whether they have gone from the leading candidate to secure the conference’s No. 1 seeding to a possible wild-card team.

“It’s fixable. We are going to have to get it fixed to get where we want to go,” said Colts Coach Tony Dungy, whose team suffered its worst loss since a 41-0 drubbing against the New York Jets in the 2002 postseason.

Indianapolis’ defensive woes overshadowed Marvin Harrison’s accomplishment. Harrison became the fourth player in NFL history with 1,000 receptions Sunday.