The usually cool, calm, collected Trevor Lawrence didn’t try to hide his frustration Sunday after a 30-12 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“It looks like we don’t even practice,” Lawrence said. “The stuff that we’re doing, we look lost, no sense of urgency. I mean the list goes on and on. I feel like we have good weeks of preparation and I feel like we’re prepared going into games and then something happens on game day the last month where it just all just falls apart.”
It was a fourth consecutive loss for a Jacksonville Jaguars squad that entered the month of December with an 8-3 record. While mistakes doomed the team in all of those defeats, the Jaguars were at least competitive and within four points of the lead in the fourth quarter of the first three losses.
That wasn’t the case Sunday when the Buccaneers cruised to a 30-0 lead thanks largely to four Jaguars turnovers.
“It’s frustrating that we had so many mistakes all the way around; it’s frustrating that I had a couple turnovers again,” Lawrence said. “At some point, we’ve got to take control of it and go play the way that I know we’re capable of playing, and we’re not doing that.
“It’s like we’re all waiting around, waiting on something to happen for us to get out of this funk and it’s not happening. No one is coming to save us.”
With two weeks left in the season, the Jaguars somehow still sit atop the AFC South standings and even have a chance to clinch the division title in Week 17.
But Jacksonville needs to do a 180 if it hopes for that to happen or even matter much in the playoffs.
“This is our season,” Lawrence said. “We’ve worked hard to be in this position, and we’re close to pissing it away, so we’ve got to figure it out. We’ve got two weeks left, like I said, and we’ve got to flush it and move on to the next one because there wasn’t much good to take from today, but we’ve got to get better.”
The Jaguars finish the year with games against the 2-13 Carolina Panthers and 5-10 Tennessee Titans.
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