(01-08-2025, 05:12 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(01-08-2025, 04:54 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote: It is a QB driven league.  The 6 figure man should excel the team.  He can't do it on his own but he has to be atleast playing well.  Trevor wasn't even average in 2024 but instead of looking at #16 you pass the buck to everyone else.  Take his sack away from your chin and look objectively.  I watched nearly every Jaguar Snap this year.  Lawrence play was very mediocre and he missed way too many passes.  I don't see the broacast crew calling out Pat Mahomes or Josh Allen for missing wide open receivers or just failing to see a receiver wide open because Lawrence locked onto one target.  It don't see Mahomes and Elite Qb's throw into triple coverage or throw the ball 5 yards over the receivers head.  I don't see Elite Qb's throw bullets 10 yards away and wonder why the receivers drop the ball so much.   Drops actually decreased with Mac Jones because he knows how to put a soft touch on a Pass.

I am just sick of seeing people like you blame everyone and everything else but number 16.  He is getting paid like a top 5 QB and should be playing like it.  Lawrence didn't even play like a top 15 Qb this year but yet we keep seeing people like you on the defense force.  The team Stunk and so did Lawrence.  Both can be true.  Your angle is Lawrence played poor because of the team but most people including me am not buying that BS anymore.  Lawrence has not played good enough period.  Even if he didn't get hurt his number trajectory was bottom of the barrel.  I remember many games that he didn't even Look Thomas way for entire half's.  He's not the prince that was promised and more and more people's eyes are opening to it.

I'll play along with this narrative. The QB position is important, that's obvious. Last year in the draft I was hoping they would have drafted a guy like Joe Milton from Tennessee. This year's draft I am hoping they're taking a look at Jaxson Dart out of Ole' Miss. Especially with how this team has failed to protect Lawrence.

The argument though, that, "He hasn't played good enough period". That's a load of [BLEEP]. The team went 9 - 8 with him in 2022 with competent coaching. The team went 8 - 3 with him in 2023 prior to the injuries racking up on him, which then carried over into 2024. So, the team manages to win football games when he's playing.

This ^ is kind of disingenuous, as Trevor's 2023 injuries didn't carry over into 2024 (not physically anyways.)  It wasn't until week 9 where he hurt his AC joint.  And you can't count 9-8 and 8-3, without counting his latest record of 3-13 as proof that's he's playing well enough.

Now I'm not discounting that the OL has had a major impact on his progression, but there's no doubt that this years Oline was better than last years.  Unfortunately Trevor's passer rating and completion stats went down this year in comparison to last year despite the OL improvement (and an addition of a talented #1 receiver.)

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