Rich Eisen: Trevor Lawrence & the Surging Jacksonville Jaguars Can “100%” be the AFC’s #1 Seed

Rich Eisen: Trevor Lawrence & the Surging Jacksonville Jaguars Can “100%” be the AFC’s #1 Seed

Listen, let’s talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh, we got to go to break. I’m sorry. Those are just the NFL Network drafts. Lawrence wasn’t drafted during a Taco Bell commercial. Let’s talk about Let’s talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Nope. We have to go to commercial. I’m sorry. Going to keep making the same joke. The audacity. Liam Cohen said last week they’re never going to get the the um respect. Never going to get the respect. You mean L Coen? L I am L Cohen. LM Coen. Spelled like a Cohen brother. That’s right. Joel Ethan and Liam. Let me just say this. Let me say this about the Jacksonville Jaguars. This game that we saw Trevor Lawrence play against the Jets is exactly why I wanted the Jets to draft Trevor Lawrence. Nope. They had Frank Gore score against the Los Angeles Rams. Who could forget that day? Nope. Now, this is the type of game that everybody was hoping to see out of him with consistency in Jacksonville. But when this guy was at Clemson running away from everybody or just dropping dimes on everybody and his hair was flowing and it was just as perfect as it is today. This is the game everyone was thinking about when he was viewed as a shorefire can’t miss got to have first overall quarterback drafted prospect. Trevor Lawrence is getting it done. third consecutive game with a passer rating of 100 or better. That’s tied for the longest such streak in his career, 2022. Now, this is what we all have thought that was going to happen with regularity after Doug Peterson took over. He certainly didn’t do it when Urban was there. You know, he’s pretty rich. You need a coach, right? You know what Urban would just do? He would just bench the running back because he fumbled like it’s the game five of a Big 10 season. But at any rate, Trevor Lawrence becomes the third player in NFL over the last 30 seasons with five or more passing touchdowns and one or more rushing touchdowns and no interceptions, joining Drew Brees and Aaron Rogers of the 2019 season. That’s what we’re talking about. Season high 48 points. Last time they scored as many points in a game was 10 years ago against the Colts 5116. I told you the Colts can’t win there. Mhm. Um, it’s tied for the third most points scored in a single game in Jacksonville history. And what I’ve seen of Jacksonville with my own two eyes was a team that couldn’t basically tie their shoes without getting a drivekilling penalty thrown on them. on the I mean when when when I saw the Jacksonville Jaguars in London and we were talking to Liam Cohen before that game you get the exact timing of it. Um Jacksonville and London against it was week seven. All right. So keep that in mind here. So he Liam Cohen told the crew that they have on Wednesdays a session a film session of uh game breakers on the opposing team. And that film session is to remind everybody how stout the upcoming opponent is or the this is the one person we’re circling on film. We cannot let this person beat them. Instead, leading up to the Rams, you could think, “Oh, there Puka was out.” So, there’s Devonte Adams, there’s Matthew Stafford, there’s Jared Verse. Instead, he just put it, Liam Cohen said, he just put a Jaguar symbol up on the screen. This is the p the entity that could break the game. You, you’re making too many mistakes. You’re the ones that can make or break this by focusing on the task at hand. Sure enough, they wound up having more than 10 penalties against the Rams and they got boat raced and they go home and they go on the buy. And I thought to myself, well, that’s that. Then they come off the buy, they go to Vegas and they win in overtime. Who knew they were looking at Jacobe Meyer saying, “Why don’t you join us in a couple weeks?” I think Jacobe probably wanted to hop on that flight anyway. Then they go to Houston and they’re up by 19 and blow it. And I thought after they blew that, well, yeah, good run. That’s the way that one went. And all they’ve done since then is beat the crap out of everybody. Again, that game against Arizona wasn’t I I I I thought that Jacksonville had it. I’m sure some of the Jaguar fans don’t feel the same way, but let’s throw that one out then. They still won on the road against an opponent that, you know, since Kyler Murray’s been down, Jake Briskett’s been winging it all over this place. Sure has. To Trey McBride and Michael Wilson. So, but they just they they they got Trevor Lawrence got everybody. The Chargers defense, Colts defense, the Jets defense. The Jets just fired their defensive coordinator this this morning, Steve Wilks. And They are. They also got Justin Herbert on the ground and out of the game. They hit him so hard. Jim’s like, “Uncle, we’re done here.” Trevor Lawrence asked if he is at the apex, if you will, of his uh confidence. Is there a time you can remember that you were playing maybe this confident, this free out on the football field? Um, I mean, that’s a tough question. I don’t know. Uh there’s been yeah there’s there’s been times where I’ve I’ve felt that way and uh but definitely it’s as confident as I’ve as I’ve felt. Um just the the feeling in our locker room and our team and our offense. I mean it’s been fun. So we got to continue to build on that and and can’t get complacent. You know there’s still a lot more ahead ahead for us um and some big games coming up. So we got to continue to push and get better. Like there’s there’s still things we need to clean up. But it’s it’s been a lot of fun and I feel great. feel confident and I think our whole offense feels that way. Man, just ask the uh guy in the front office and Tony Belli, you remember big games against the Denver Broncos back in the day? I do. It’s like Tom Coughlin’s there telling everybody uh be there five minutes early cuz guess who they got next week? This is it. Here we go. Even if you’re like, “Yeah, but who have you really beaten other than the Chargers and the Cardinals team that’s putting the scare into everybody?” And you had the Houston Texans dead to rights and let them off the hook. And by the way, sparked a rally for them. They haven’t lost since that comeback win. So, the Jaguars have got a big game in week 16, if not the game of the day in the AFC. I mean, you got the Ravens at the Raiders. I mean, the Ravens at uh at New England, that’s a big one. When you look at the rest of the AFC, you know, that’s a pretty big one, say the least, cuz the Jaguars have a shot at the one seed. They win that one, they got a shot at the one seed. Because if the Chargers, I just laid out for how the Chargers could be the one seed. If the Chargers wound up having the same record as the Broncos, they might win the division. But guess who would maybe have the same record as the Chargers? a team that beat the crap out of him. The Jaguars have a shot at the one seed if they win this game in Denver, 100%. So, how’s that for respect? Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen reacts to Trevor Lawrence and the AFC South-leading Jacksonville Jaguars extending their win streak to 5 games.

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