Another Obstacle Revealed For Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence

The Jaguars have stressed since the start of the bye week their desire to run the ball more and become a more balanced offense after weeks of airing out the ball. We will now see how Lawrence's illness impacts the offensive plan and if it naturally leads to more of a lean on the running game.

“It just all helps each other. It's like a big circle. He says that and it's great because, as a coach and a play caller, to hear him take accountability to the team is pretty cool because obviously as players we're the ones playing and we know there's a lot of things we need to do better execution wise and at the end of the day it comes down to us on the field making it happen. But to hear your coach take accountability is great," Lawrence said this week.

"But on the flip side of that, if we can stay out of some second and longs, we can help him stay more balanced in calling plays. So that’s having better plays on first down, whether that's more completions, we've had a lot of incompletions, had some second and longs, or better first down runs, executing runs better. So, there are a lot of different things where we can help him call the game how he wants to by just executing better some of the simple things. And I know as a quarterback I've had some plays here and there to start games where I feel like I could get us on track earlier so that we can settle in and not be playing behind the chains.”