What Trevor Lawrence's Steller Emergence Really Means for Jaguars

The Jaguars franchise quarterback played to the talent level many expected him to at this point in his career, throwing for 244 yards and two touchdowns on 17 of 30 passing attempts. He was fearless, throwing the ball downfield, attacking the seams, and the middle of the field at a high rate. For the first time all season, it seemed as though the Jaguars unlocked a critical aspect of their offense: the downfield passing game.

"[It was] huge, huge," Coen said after the game. "When you can attack every blade of grass, it is something that, ultimately, we want to be able to do. To get BTJ [Brian Thomas Jr.] going down the field vertically, some great throws and catches from those guys."

Adding this new element of the vertical passing game allows Coen and Lawrence to be that much more aggressive in the final four games of the season, in a critical month in the league calendar. Jacksonville must maintain its possession of first place in the division. Ultimately, on Sunday, it came down to a few pass-catchers who made plays downfield for the Jaguars' offense.

Coen acknowledged that while much of their passing games is about attacking the intermediates and creating voids for yards after the catch, his wideouts were the ones making plays.

"Tim Patrick made a few big plays down the field as well," Coen said. "You know, that's a huge part of this game is being able to stretch people vertically.

"So much of our pass game has been a little bit more intermediate in trying to create more zones and catch and run, and these guys just made plays today in a lot of ways. 
Like those weren't phenomenally schemed up plays. Those are our players going out and being special."

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