The Jaguars won by laughing against the Patriots on Sunday, which made it much easier to laugh about a strange choice Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence made in the fourth quarter of the game.
Lawrence drove through the Patriots defense and had no one between him and the end zone when he dropped to his knees at the 1-yard line to stop on a 15-yard run for a first down. If this play had happened with about a minute left, Lawrence would have been praised for his smart move, but there was a little more time left this week.
A little more time, actually. Lawrence took a knee with eight minutes remaining and running back Bhayshul Tuten took care of the final yard on the next play to give the Jags their final points in a 35-6 victory.
“I’m trying to help support the fantastic people at Bhayshul Tuten,” Lawrence said on CBS after the match.
Lawrence explained a little more during his post-match press conference. He said making plays like that to kill the clock is something the Jaguars talk about in games and he realizes it was probably overkill to do it with so much time left on the clock.
“It was probably pointless here, I was just trying to use up as much clock as possible,” Lawrence said. “They then used a timeout. Trying to give them as little chance as possible to get back in the game. If you get into the analytics, people will probably be all over it online, I’m sure. It probably wasn’t the best decision, but we scored on the next play.”
Lawrence’s fantasy owners might take issue with the pick, but it was met with laughter in most other quarters.
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