The Jaguars may have made a bad investment.
At football’s most important position, no less.
Lawrence A Loser?
What Happened: Daniel Jones has a better QBR. Skylar Thompson and Will Levis best him in passer rating. Bo Nix has a better EPA per play.
It’s officially time to start worrying about Trevor Lawrence.
The Jaguars lost again last night, and Lawrence was so bad that after the game, head coach Doug Pederson wouldn’t even commit to him as the team’s QB moving forward. It was so bad, we got a dose of Mac Jones (somehow making things even worse.)
Why It Matters: Back in June, Lawrence signed an extension with Jacksonville which pulled him even with fellow 0-3er Joe Burrow as the (at the time) highest paid players in league history.
At this point, are the Jaguars in the running to take a new QB in the 2025 draft?
ESPN’s Football Power Index projects Duval to win 6.2 games this season, a rounding error away from the Titans’ league-low 5.9. Per ESPN BET, the Jags are +120 to wear the crown of last winless team in the NFL; the Bengals play the Panthers next week, the Titans have the QB-less Dolphins, while Pederson’s squad faces a Texans team that just got blasted by the Vikings and will be looking to stay out of the loss column in consecutive weeks.
Following last night’s drubbing, only five teams have shorter odds than the Jaguars to finish the campaign with the fewest wins. Lawrence was the can’t-miss prospect, the prototypical franchise savior that even bounced back from a season with Urban Meyer at the helm. $275 million doesn’t go as far as it used to, it seems.
What We’re Watching Today
Storm at Aces (9:30 PM ET) – You won’t find many tougher no. 4 seeds than the Aces. Vegas has captured back-to-back WNBA titles, A’ja Wilson just became the second-ever unanimous MVP in the W’s history, and the team enters the playoffs on a five-game winning streak. A couple of June/July losing spells sent them down the standings a bit, but no one wants to play the Aces.
Padres at Dodgers (10:10 PM ET) – Would you look at that – these NL West rivals will play a three-game series this week, with the Dodgers exactly three games up on the Padres in the standings. This series has the potential to create a major shakeup in the National League playoff picture before the regular season wraps up on Sunday.
The Look Ahead
Shohei Ohtani STOLEN BASES – The game’s most exciting talent has moved on from his record-breaking 50/50 accomplishment. Next up: 60/60?! Ohtani already has racked up 55 stolen bases along with 53 homers. L.A. still has plenty of motivation to take down the Padres in this three-games series with NL playoff positions unsettled, so there should be no quit in Ohtani’s game. Dingers are sexier, but we’ll take him to swipe a base tonight.
