here<\/a><\/p>\nWashington caught a dime from Trevor Lawrence in the corner of the endzone for the first touchdown of the day. According to Next Gen Stats, the pass only had a 28.3% chance of being completed.<\/p>\n
The third-year receiver hit paydirt again on a shifty 73-yard punt return to give Jacksonville a 17-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Despite an encouraging rookie season, Jones was replaced in the starting lineup when the Jaguars signed Jourdan Lewis during the offseason to defend the slot.<\/p>\n
With Lewis inactive today (neck), Jones stepped up and played his tail off. He stepped in front of former Jaguar Christian Kirk for an interception on the first possession of the game and later broke up a third down pass to force a punt. Jones added 2 TFLs and another 2 solo tackles to his stat sheet as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame that we never saw Little get a chance to win the game. He\u2019s rediscovered his confidence. The second-year kicker has made all 3 of his field goal attempts in consecutive games since Jacksonville\u2019s Week 8 bye.<\/p>\n
RB Bhayshul Tuten was injured during a second quarter kickoff return but returned in time for the next one.RG Patrick Mekari exited the game in the fourth quarter but returned after two plays.<\/p>\n
When will the self-inflicted mistakes get cleaned up? It\u2019s a question that\u2019s already been asked but yet to be answered. The Jaguars entered the game with the most penalties in the league (74), and they were penalized 9 times for 90 yards today. Perhaps the coaching staff\u2019s youth\/relative lack of experience is showing.<\/p>\n
How will general manager James Gladstone address the pass rush in the offseason? Like the topic above, this is a team weakness that just isn\u2019t going away. The Jaguars entered the game with a league-low 3.3% sack rate, and they mustered just 2 sacks on 45 dropbacks today (4.4%). Maybe Josh Hines-Allen isn\u2019t an elite pass rusher, but he could certainly use some assistance!<\/p>\n
How close are we to having a difficult conversation about Trevor Lawrence? This was another game in which it was hard to put too much weight on the quarterback\u2019s errors, considering how many were made around him. Lawrence was somewhat set up for failure with a depleted pass-catching unit going against the top-ranked Texans defense. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s dragging the team down. That said, he isn\u2019t exactly lifting them up. At what point will the organization lose interest in what he* could* be with a good roster? For the first time ever, I think Lawrence playing in a non-Jaguars uniform is an actual possibility. The case for him to be Jacksonville\u2019s starter in 2026 and beyond has far too many excuses baked into it. He has the next eight games to convince Gladstone, Coen, and Tony Boselli that he\u2019s their guy.<\/p>\n
What are your thoughts on today\u2019s game, Jaguars fans?<\/p>\n
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars scored first in Sunday\u2019s game against the Texans. They went up 3-0, then 10-0, then 17-0,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,710,212,125,81887,52775,58792,41762,2406,2401,213,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-513172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-game-day-threads","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-discussion","13":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-game-information","14":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-scores-results","15":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-injuries","16":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","17":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","18":"tag-jaguars","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}