The Jacksonville Jaguars went on the street for the primary time below Liam Coen, touring to Ohio to face the Cincinnati Bengals. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence falls to 0-3 within the state with Doug Pederson and City Meyer each going 0-1 with a 2021 loss to the Bengals in Cincinnati and the 2023 loss to the Browns in Cleveland. Just like the 2023 loss to the Bengals, Jacksonville was unable to carry onto a late lead, dropping within the remaining moments to Bengals backup QB Jake Browning, with Joe Burrow leaving the sport early.
Right here’s the whole lot it’s essential know from Jacksonville’s Week 2 31-27 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
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The next Cincinnati gamers didn’t take part on this one: Bengals RG Patrick Lucas was positioned on IR on Tuesday as a result of a calf damage suffered final week. In any other case, Cincinnati was moderately wholesome on Sunday with WR Jermaine Burton a wholesome scratch for the second consecutive week, with CB Marco Wilson, TE Cam Grandy, DT McKinnley Jackson, and DT Howard Cross III.
For Jacksonville, second-year defensive deal with Maason Smith was energetic for the primary time this season after being inactive in week 1 whereas persevering with to ramp up his conditioning. He spent a lot of the preseason out as a result of an undisclosed coaching damage. Moreover, the staff was with out CB Montaric Brown, who continues to work his method again from his coaching camp ankle damage. Rookie OL Wyatt Milum was dominated out on Friday as a result of his coaching camp knee damage. DL Danny Striggow, DL B.J. Inexperienced III, DT Khalen Saunders Sr, and the lately signed RB Cody Schrader have been all wholesome scratches this week.
Jacksonville opened with the ball first, with Dyami Brown changing the opening drive third-and-three with an 18-yard achieve. Brian Thomas then secured his second catch of the drive with an 18-yard first down reception. Jacksonville wrapped up the 11-play, 69-yard, 4:09 landing drive with a Dyami Brown 9-yard landing catch from Lawrence. (Jaguars 7, Bengals 0)
The Jacksonville protection opened up a dominant first sequence, almost inflicting a second down fumble of Bengals QB Joe Burrow, which was reviewed by Liam Coen unsuccessfully. The Jacksonville protection then compelled a punt on the next play by way of an Andrew Wingard strain, leading to a Foye Oluokun sack of Burrow.
The Jacksonville offense continued having success on the next sequence with a number of high quality rushes by RB Bhayshul Tuten, who later accomplished a 24-yard reception to get Jacksonville in scoring vary. Parker Washington then accomplished an unimaginable jump-ball 20-yard contested completion, earlier than Lawrence was hit on a third-and-goal try from the 8-yard line leading to an interception. The Bengals offense then awakened, placing collectively a 12-play, 80-yard, 4:45 drive off the turnover, capped by a third-down four-yard Jamar Chase landing on Tyson Campbell. (Jaguars 7, Bengals 7)
Jacksonville would reply the turnover with their very own landing on a 10-play, 75-yard, 4:13 drive buoyed by a 30-yard Travis Etienne rush to get Jacksonville into the Cincinnati purple zone. Bhayshul Tuten then closed out the drive with an 8-yard landing catch to retake the lead. (Jaguars 14, Bengals 7)
The Jacksonville protection got here out on hearth the next sequence, with Arik Armstead sacking Burrow on second all the way down to drive a third-and-25. Burrow left the sport, by no means to return. After the punt, the Jaguars offense then gave the ball proper again with Brian Thomas Jr stopping on the Lawrence crossing route, additionally tipping the ball up into the fingers of Bengals security Jordan Battle at their very own 34-yard line. The Jaguars protection held Cincinnati to a area objective, nonetheless, with DE Travon Walker accumulating his first sack of the season on Bengals backup QB Jake Browning. (Jaguars 14, Bengals 10)
The Jaguars then put collectively an 8-play, 46-yard, 1:53 area objective drive with a near-interception off of a Travis Hunter goal from Lawrence. The play was reviewed and referred to as an incompletion, in what was almost Lawrence’s third interception of the half. Cam Little then drilled the 42-yard area objective to increase the lead again to seven. (Jaguars 17, Bengals 10)
Jacksonville security Eric Murray intercepted Jake Browning on the next sequence on an overthrown go. Nevertheless, the Jaguars have been unable to reply with factors earlier than the half.
- Rating: Jaguars 17, Bengals 10
- Time of possession: Jaguars 15:57, Bengals 14:03
- Turnovers compelled: Jaguars 1, Bengals 2
- Sacks: Jaguars 3, Bengals 0
- Dashing yards: Jaguars 76, Bengals 25
- Yards per rush: Jaguars 6.3, Bengals 3.6
- Passing yards: Jaguars 191, Bengals 106
- Passing yards per try: Jaguars 8.0, Bengals 4.6
- Redzone: Jaguars 2/3 (66.6%), Bengals 1/2 (50%)
- Penalties: Jaguars 2 for 10 yards, Bengals 1 for 10 yards (Nevertheless, 5 whole first-half unlawful shift penalties, with a number of declined)
- Factors off turnovers: Jaguars 0, Bengals 10)
Jake Browning then led Cincinnati on a 7-play, 76-yard, 3:55 landing drive the place the Jacksonville protection struggled to restrict Jamar Chase with receptions of 25, 12, and 12 yards. CB Jarrian Jones then surrendered the game-tying landing to Bengals WR Mitchell Tinsley on his first profession NFL catch. (Jaguars 17, Bengals 17)
Jacksonville then started to strain the backup QB on the next drive, constantly pressuring Browning with 5 – 6 defenders till the dam broke by way of a Josh Hines-Allen strain leading to an Andrew Wingard interception.
The Jaguars offense then capitalized on the turnover, with a 7-play, 35-yard, 3:02 drive capped by an 11-yard Travis Etienne display screen go for a landing. (Jaguars 24, Bengals 17)
After a 33-yard kickoff return and a questionable pointless roughness penalty on Yasir Abdullah, the Bengals then instantly answered with a landing of their very own, a 42-yard Tee Higgins deep ball over Tyson Campbell and Andrew Wingard. (Jaguars 24, Bengals 24)
Jacksonville’s offense opened the quarter with a 14-play, 53-yard, 5:56 area objective drive, the place it seemed to be a Dyami Brown landing on second down. Nevertheless, the throw was dropped by Brown. (Jaguars 27, Bengals 24)
The Bengals offense then went three and out, punting the ball again to Jacksonville after two consecutive incompletions. Nevertheless, Cincinnati additionally compelled Jacksonville to commerce punts, after forcing a Lawrence to Thomas Jr incompletion on third-and-two the place BTJ was doubled. The Jaguars protection stole the ball again from Cincinnati with a Devin Lloyd interception.
Nevertheless, the offense was unable to show the drive into factors as Liam Coen determined to go for it on fourth-and-five from the Cincinnati seven. On the play, Brian Thomas Jr dropped the 4-yard go that appeared prone to convert the try. The Jaguars protection appeared to cease Cincinnati on fourth-and-five. Nevertheless, CB Travis Hunter was referred to as for a questionable 25-yard go interference penalty to proceed the drive. The Bengals offense wrapped up the 15-play, 92-yard, 3:24 drive with a Jake Browning game-winning QB sneak. (Jaguars 31, Bengals 27)
The largest play of the sport was undoubtedly the fourth-and-five Travis Hunter go interference penalty to maintain the Cincinnati drive going.
Largest play(s) of the sport:
In line with rbsdm.com, the largest play of the sport by Anticipated Factors Added (EPA) and win likelihood was Trevor Lawrence’s first quarter interception (-5.1 EPA and -24% win likelihood).
- QB Trevor Lawrence: 25/43 for 294 yards (6.8 YPA), 3 TDs, 2 ints, sacked as soon as (82.9 QB score)
- RB Travis Etienne: 14 carries for 71 yards (5.1 YPC), 2 catches for 18 yards (9.0 YPR) on 3 targets, and 1 TD catch
- RB Bhayshul Tuten: 8 carries for 42 yards (5.3 YPC), 2 catches for 32 yards (16.0 YPR) on 2 targets, and 1 TD catch
- WR Parker Washington: 6 catches for 81 yards (13.5 YPR) on 6 targets
- WR Dyami Brown: 5 catches for 57 yards (11.4 YPR) and 1 TD on 7 targets
- WR Brian Thomas Jr: 4 catches for 49 yards (12.3 YPR) on 12 targets
- CB Jourdan Lewis: 8 tackles (5 solo), 2 tackles for loss, and 1 go deflection
- LB Foye Oluokun: 7 tackles (3 solo), 1 sack, 2 tackles for loss, 1 QB hit
- S Eric Murray: 7 tackles (6 solo), 1 go defensed, 1 interception
- Further interceptions by LB Devin Lloyd and S Andrew Wingard)
- Further sacks by DE Travon Walker and DT Arik Armstead
View the total field rating right here
- Particular Groups: Cam Little: 2/2 on fieldgoals with an extended of 42-yards; 3/3 on further factors
- Protection: S Eric Murray: 7 tackles (6 solo), 1 go defensed, 1 interception
- Offense: Shared recreation ball for the Jacksonville offensive line by way of Travis Etienne and Bhayshul Tuten. When all ball carriers common 5.1 YPC on the day, the large guys deserve some love, irrespective of the result. Moreover, they gave up only one sack on the day.
- Whereas Travis Hunter remained the Jaguars’ main slot receiver, he lined up within the slot much less often this week, whereas all 4 different vast receivers for Jacksonville obtained the next slot charge this week.
- There have been experiences all through the week that Jacksonville deliberate on utilizing Hunter extra typically. That was amplified as soon as Jarrian Jones suffered a again damage. Hunter solely performed in certainly one of 14 snaps within the first quarter, however that elevated to 12 out of 18 within the second quarter whereas Jones dealt together with his damage. Jones performed six performs early within the third quarter, however then he didn’t return to the sport. This left Hunter taking part in within the remaining 30 snaps within the recreation, leading to 43 whole snaps on protection to go together with his 42 snaps on offense.
- Tight finish Brenton Unusual’s taking part in time jumped to 90.1% of Jacksonville’s offensive snaps, which is a brand new profession excessive, and a mark that Evan Engram solely hit twice throughout his time with the Jaguars.
The next Jacksonville gamers didn’t take part in Sunday’s matchup as a result of famous accidents all through the week:
- OL Wyatt Milum (knee)
- CB Montaric Brown (ankle)
- DL Danny Striggow
- DL B.J. Inexperienced III
- DT Khaulen Saunders
- RB Cody Schrager
The next gamers left Sunday’s recreation as a result of damage:
- CB Jarrian Jones briefly left the matchup, however later returned for just a few performs, then once more left the matchup.
- You possibly can watch the highest performs of the Week 2 matchup on the NFL’s YouTube channel right here.
Put up-game lingering questions:
1. The miscues proceed to harm this Jaguars staff.
Jacksonville misplaced a winnable recreation on Sunday, primarily as a result of miscues (6 penalties for 55 yards with one other 5 declined flags). Whereas a number of calls in opposition to the secondary might have arguably been questionable, the largest opponent for Jacksonville on Sunday was itself. A number of dropped passes, together with Dyami Drown’s dropped landing and Brian Thomas Jr’s dropped fourth down conversion doomed the offense.
2. Defensive struggles within the passing recreation creep up
A worrying scene emerged on Sunday, with the Jaguars secondary struggling to cease a backup QB from taking part in pitch and catch with Bengals receivers, because the Jacksonville defensive backs didn’t get eyes on the ball constantly all through the sport. Whereas usually in nice place to make a play on the ball, Cincinnati receivers merely made the performs, the place Jacksonville’s corners have been unable to. Whereas most groups shouldn’t have a one-two punch corresponding to Chase and Higgins, each gamers had their day with a number of gamers within the cornerback room.
3. Turnovers proceed for the protection
Regardless of the famous alternatives inside the secondary, the Jaguars backend was fairly opportunistic in Sunday’s matchup, including three interceptions to their three turnovers from week one. With six turnovers compelled in two weeks, they proceed to offer the offense further alternatives to attain with quick fields. Nevertheless, Jacksonville’s personal offensive turnovers resulted in a major hurdle for the protection, because the Bengals scored 17 factors off turnovers on Sunday (together with the ultimate landing after the turnover on downs). In the meantime, Jacksonville scored simply seven factors off their three turnovers, opting to skip the chip shot area objective on fourth down.
What are your ideas from tonight’s recreation, Jaguars followers? Who shocked you most or disillusioned you with their play tonight? Tell us within the feedback.