Michael Dirocco
Jacksonville, Florida – Trevor Lawrence panicked.
Liam Coen thought: throw it away.
Travis Hunter had no idea what was going on.
It was a few chaotic seconds for the Jacksonville jaguars, but when he was above Lawrence, he was in the goals and the Jaguars won a 31-28 victory on the Kansas City chiefs at the Everbank stadium on Monday evening.
“It was a crazy and crazy final,” said Lawrence.
This is probably the best way to describe its 1 -rod touching race after falling when the right -of -right goalkeeper Patrick Mekari walked on his foot – although Coen offered “Goofy”. Lawrence tried to get up, stumbled again, then got up with the intention of throwing the ball before seeing a track and taking off, finally plunging into the goals area with 23 seconds.
It was perhaps an unconventional finish, but it was an important moment for the deceased Lawrence, which had experienced a difficult start to the season while learning its third head coach since the franchise selected it n ° 1 in 2021. Its second hit capped the return of Jacksonville from a deficit of 14-0 and showed a national audience that he can do the Jaguars LEGITIMY CONTENDERS AFC.
“It is an awkward finish, but what a difficult time for him to be able to say that he was not going to lose, and that is really what it comes from,” said Coen. “He was not going to lose and he made an incredible individual effort which, hopefully, can continue to soak.”
Lawrence completed 18 of the 25 passes for 221 yards with a touch and an interception, with its best jet a 33 yards in Brian Thomas Jr. during a third down on the winning disc. Three games later, he had a click in the line of the 1 yards, fell, stumbled, rose, ran to his left, broke a tackle and plunged for the TD.
“I mean, I just panicked, honestly,” said Lawrence. “I was trying to get up to get the ball out of my hands. It was no time left, so I was really going to get up and launch it in the back of the goal area.”
It was normal that Lawrence won the match with a race because he said that after last week’s match against San Francisco, he felt like he missed opportunities to operate the ball. He ended up directing the jaguars during the precipitation Monday evening (54 yards in 10 races), which included a 10 yards TD race in the third quarter. Its two scrambled touches against the chiefs equaled its total jamming TD in its first four seasons.
“This is something that I just realized the first two weeks. I think I had the opportunity to be able to prolong the games using my legs,” said Lawrence. “It is our biggest asset in third descent in addition to the guys who open on the cover. The defensive patterns are really good, and sometimes they cover all the guys, and our line O has blocked, so being able to escape, use my legs, make the defense of the whole domain defend … had a big impact for us this evening.”
Lawrence also had no target throws for the second time in this career. He did it while missing the tight winger Brenton Strange (hip) throughout the second half and losing the Robert Hainey center in the fourth quarter.
“I mean, I just panicked, honestly. I was trying to get up to get the ball out of my hands. We have no time left, so I was really going to get up and launch it at the back of the goal area.”
Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence
“Trevor has just been a dog, whatever the adversity it was (treating), which we had to cross,” said Hunter, who had a summit of 64 yards in reception on three catches, including a 44 yards which set up the second touch of the jaguars. “He just continued to play the next game, a mental state and continued to bring the offensive with him.”
What he also did is put the Jaguars at the top of the AFC with the same record as Buffalo and Indianapolis and proven, by beating Patrick Mahomes in head, that the Jaguars should be taken seriously as a competitor.
“We have to take the week a week and obviously, we think we are a good team, so we believe it,” said Lawrence. “But you do not listen to the outside noise and few of these people were there at the start of the season.
“So they are really guys from this locker room, staff, coach, all the people who put the work and we have this confidence and this belief. This is what matters.”
ESPN research has contributed to this report.
