Jacksonville has greater goals and a bigger-picture mindset than just winning its regular season opener.
“Yeah, it’s still a work in progress. You saw it around the league I think, with offenses and defenses that Week 1 is not going to decide your season at all. How many times have you seen teams jump out 4-, 5-, 6-0, and then falter in December and January,” coach Doug Pederson said. In 2020, the Jaguars scored a season high of 30 points once and finished 1-15. In Trevor Lawrence’s rookie season in 2021, the Jaguars scored a season-high 26 points in the final game of the year. Jacksonville didn’t start the best in 2022 but played like a different team in the second half of the season. Lawrence was one of the league’s best quarterbacks in that span and the expectations have followed that progress accordingly.