Trevor Lawrence spent Sunday looking sharp, and for the Jaguars, that was enough to bury New England in a 35-6 blowout.
Lawrence finished 19 of 29 for 182 yards and three touchdowns, one of them coming on a fingertip catch in the end zone by Parker Washington. Washington has quietly become one of Lawrence’s most dependable targets this season, and he showed it again in a game Jacksonville controlled from start to finish.
The Patriots, meanwhile, had a mess of an afternoon. Drake Maye fumbled twice and lost one of them, then threw two interceptions before getting pulled in the fourth quarter. Through three games this season, New England has just one touchdown pass and six interceptions, a brutal start for a team that reached the Super Bowl last season.
Lawrence’s numbers were solid, but one play grabbed all the attention. With just under nine minutes left and Jacksonville already well ahead, he took off on a scramble with the end zone in front of him. He crossed the edge of the goal line, then stopped and took a knee at the 1-yard line instead of finishing the run.
That decision set off a wave of reactions online. “WHAT IS TREVOR LAWRENCE DOING?” one popular X account asked before adding, “Bro HAS to be gambling 😭😭😭.”
The clip spread quickly, and fans piled on with confusion. “With the introduction of legal sports betting, plays like this where it’s obvious a player isn’t ‘finishing’ the play should result in 15 yard penalties and loss of down,” one fan argued.
“Can someone tell me a logical reason why it makes sense for him to go this? Truly I have no idea.
Is there a real football reason?” another asked.
“It’s 8 minutes n some change, I would never understand this. I get it if it’s 2 minutes in some change, but this is so dumb,” a third wrote.
Lawrence also threw one interception, but that wasn’t the part people were talking about. Jacksonville didn’t need the extra points anyway, and the Jaguars rolled to their sixth straight home win while bouncing back from their worst offensive showing in nearly a year the week before. New England leaves with even more questions hanging over its young quarterback.
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Liam Coen said the situation appears to be resolved, but the oddest part still hangs out there: even the person on the other end of the exchange has not been clearly identified by either team. An unconfirmed report from TMZ Sports suggested the individual may have been with the Patriots rather than the Jaguars, which only adds another layer to a strange post-interception sequence that left more questions than answers. [Read more 🡒]
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The miss did not change the bigger picture around Little, who has already shown he belongs in rare territory for leg strength. With a new NFL rule about kicking footballs also in the mix, the possibility of even longer field goals is suddenly part of the conversation, and Jacksonville has a front-row seat to whatever comes next. [Read more 🡒]
Patriots Offense Just Raised A Bigger Concern Than Fans Expected
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On the other side, New England came away with more questions than answers as Drake Maye, in backup duty, was picked off multiple times and the Patriots slipped to 1-2. The broader AFC picture only sharpened the contrast, with Buffalo surviving the Chargers despite turnovers and Josh Allen adding two rushing scores, but for Jacksonville the attention remains on how convincingly it handled a defense that never settled in. [Read more 🡒]