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Trevor Lawrence carved up the Cleveland Browns’ defense for four touchdown passes as the Jacksonville Jaguars cruised to a 34-10 Week 1 victory.

Deshaun Watson, who was named the Browns’ starting quarterback over Shedeur Sanders before the season, had a forgettable performance, throwing for 205 yards, one touchdown and an interception and failing to get the offense going until the team’s final drive of the game.

The Browns’ defense struggled to get off the field and the offense wasn’t able to produce much of anything. It was 24-0 at halftime and things didn’t get much better in the second half. The Browns didn’t score their first three points until the 8:31 mark of the third quarter — and even that was set up by Raheim Sanders’ 62-yard kick return.

All told, it was an inauspicious debut for Browns coach Todd Monken, who could have a decision to make at quarterback sooner than expected.

“They better get us now,” Monken said after the game. “We’ve got a good, young group. We just didn’t play well today.”

Cleveland will next travel to Tampa to face the Buccaneers in Week 2, while the Jaguars head to Denver to face the Broncos in an early AFC showdown.

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Watson couldn’t move the offense. Is it already time to consider a QB change?

This is a tough one because the Browns never had a real reason to think Watson could still play at a high level. This expensive experiment failed long ago, but the Browns felt compelled to double down again.

“It wasn’t all (on) him,” Monken said of Watson postgame. “Certainly could have called it better. Certainly could have played better around him.”

After not playing for almost two years, Watson is unsurprisingly the same player. He’s turnover-prone, no longer scares defenses with his mobility and doesn’t look to get the ball downfield often enough. Monken believed Watson would give the Browns a chance to have a clean overall operation, but that didn’t happen Sunday.

After the game, the coach didn’t outright commit to Watson as the team’s Week 2 starter, but he also defended his quarterback.

“My decision-making is what’s best for the Browns, now and moving forward. That doesn’t mean I don’t understand the frustration,” Monken said.

“We’re going to analyze everything: how we coach, starting with me. How we do it offensively and defensively, and Deshaun is a part of that. Quarterback always is and always will be. … Until I get a chance to watch it and really drill down, it’s unfair for me to really comment on any one player, because it’s never as bad as you think and it’s never as good as you think.” — Zac Jackson, Browns reporter

Why did the Browns’ defense struggle so much vs. Lawrence?

This was a preparation mismatch. The game flow certainly didn’t help the Browns’ cause, but Lawrence came out firing and completed 18 of 23 passes for 245 yards and those four TD passes for a QB rating of 150.6. Jaguars receivers were regularly open, and Parker Washington was able to adjust and make contested catches in big moments.

Eventually, the Cleveland defense was an exhausted mess with temperatures reaching the mid-90s, but the main point is that the Browns were a mess overall. Liam Coen’s game plan was sound, and Cleveland’s defense got next to no help from its offense, accelerating the inevitable. — Jackson

Is this game more an indication of how good the Jaguars are, or how bad the Browns are?

There certainly are elements of both, but the Cleveland offense was hopeless. Lawrence got hot early — many of his targets were running wide-open — but the story of the day was the Browns doubling down on putting Watson on the field when that plan clearly has no chance to succeed.

There was one good team advancing its overall program on the field Sunday, and the Browns were little more than a speed bump. The Browns did few things right and will take almost no positives into another Florida trip next week when they visit the Buccaneers. — Jackson