The Scottish thriller leaves England with "hand grenades" to defuse itself before the World Cup

When Eddie Jones planned an "explosion" at Twickenham, he did not intend to break with the momentum of the World Cup.

The big bang was supposed to scare Scotland and emphasize how dangerous his team would be in Japan this fall.

All the speeches that England would show how close they were to being the best in the sector were meant to impress far beyond the bookmakers, who still have their second favorite in front of the Grand Slam winner, the Wales.

Instead, the rocket was lit on one of the big capitulations in high-level sport, while England had the biggest advance in test history in front of a country with only two wins in the league. outside beaten by the Italians.

"It's like we have hand grenades in the back of a jeep and they sometimes ring when the pressure is high," Jones said, evoking explosive badogies. "We have some and we have to get rid of it."

Jones was referring to how his players manage under pressure and said they had had problems with their minds since the last World Cup. But Ben Youngs did not have that, after England went from "ruthless to toothless" like never before.

The star of Leicester was as discouraged as anyone who the match in which he would become the most capped scrum half of England become a source of embarrbadment.

"Too loose, too casual with the ball," he said after Scotland scored six unanswered attempts to try to reverse the 31-0 deficit.

But he dismissed Jones' badertion that some players would not handle the pressure when the momentum of the game changed.

Over the past nine months, England also lost to South Africa (twice), New Zealand and Wales after taking advantage respectively of 24- 3, 12-0, 15-0 and 10-3.

Youngs, however, said, "I would not agree with that at all. I do not think it's a pressure, I just think we need to better understand where the momentum of the game is and what we want right now. From total control to a total loss of control. We need to understand why and how we stop giving teams momentum. "

Sam Johnson, who thought he had won when his essay gave Scotland seven points in advance to three minutes from the end, felt England "somehow panicked" while she was did not win for the fifth time in eight Six Nations matches.

Worryingly, it was their last outing before the start of the World Cup in the fall.

More worryingly, Captain Owen Farrell was replaced early.

"We needed someone to change the pace of the game," said Jones, whose replacement, George Ford, forced the draw for a conversion test. "Owen will be disappointed with his game, but as with any young captain, it takes time."

There is little left. Jones said that it had taken eight years for New Zealand to learn how to close the games.

England is only six months older.