{"id":431463,"date":"2026-10-18T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431463\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:02:09","slug":"quick-thoughts-after-jaguars-week-6-loss-to-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431463\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts After Jaguars’ Week 6 Loss to Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, United Kingdom \u2013 Senior writer John Oehser, senior correspondent Brian Sexton, team reporter Kainani Stevens and correspondent John Shipley offer quick thoughts on the Jaguars\u2019 34-31 loss to the Houston Texans in a 2026 Week 6 game at Wembley Stadium<\/a> in London, United Kingdom, Sunday<\/p>\n

Last-second giveth, last-second taketh. The NFL is about situations and moments \u2013 and if the Jaguars won most of those moments in the season’s first London game, they lost just enough Sunday to cost them what would have been a critical AFC South victory. The Jaguars on Sunday rallied impressively in the second half, with clutch plays from quarterback Trevor Lawrence<\/a>, wide receiver\/cornerback Travis Hunter<\/a> and \u2013 once again \u2013 kicker Cam Little<\/a> giving them a chance at a dramatic victory. But the Jaguars also squandered a first-half red-zone opportunity when cornerback Kamari Lassiter intercepted Lawrence in the end zone two plays after a questionable holding penalty on tight end Brenton Strange<\/a> negated a 3-yard touchdown run by running back Bhayshul Tuten<\/a>. A special-teams penalty for too many players on the field and a third-down penalty on cornerback Jarrian Jones<\/a> extended two Houston third-quarter touchdown drives. “We made a few too many mistakes that cost us in the end,” Lawrence said. “It was a one-score game, like most of them are. It ended up hurting us this game. We’ve gotten away with a little bit in the past.” The Jaguars overcame errors in a last-play victory over the Philadelphia Eagles last week. This week, the mistakes were justtoomuchbarely to overcome in a last-play loss. The result: The Jaguars lost when they could have won and kept a capable rival alive in the AFC South.Travis time.\u00a0Yes, Sunday was disappointing for the Jaguars. And there are issues that will be debated and dissected during this week’s Week 7 bye. But if there was an obvious, long-term positive from Sunday, it’s the continued \u2013 and rapid \u2013 development of second-year wide receiver\/cornerback Hunter on both offense and defense. “I’ve been doing this stuff since I was a baby,” Hunter said. “We just have to come out with a win.” Hunter, who began the season playing predominantly on defense after missing the last 10 games of his rookie season with a knee injury, played extensively on defense again Sunday but also factored more significantly offensively than previously was the case this season. He not only had a fourth-quarter interception that kept the Jaguars close, but he also had four receptions for 59 yards and a seven-yard fourth-quarter touchdown that pulled the Jaguars to within 31-28 with 11:26 remaining. There was nothing gimmicky or fluky about Hunter on either side of the ball Sunday. We’re starting to see the vision for the player the Jaguars selected No. 2 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, and that’s an encouraging vision for the final 11 games.No happy ending at Wembley this week.\u00a0The Jaguars watched helplessly as the Texans made their way into field goal-range Sunday. Truthfully, the defense had been helpless most of the afternoon; they had no answer for Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud, who took the Jaguars’ defense apart almost surgically completing 71 percent of his passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns. The Texans also ran effectively in the second half, including a 25-yard touchdown by third-string running back Jawhar Jordan, who was elevated off the practice squad Saturday. But the Jaguars couldn’t solve the Texans passing attack except for Hunter’s end-zone interception that set up their game-tying field goal. There wasn’t enough pressure, and big coverage errors made it too easy for Stroud.Lawrence gave them a chance. Lawrence threw for 306 with four touchdowns and more than made up for a first-half end-zone interception. He put his team in a position to go to overtime; every time the Texans pushed the lead to ten in the second half, Lawrence cut it back to three and he was really good against an excellent defense. He was really good because he had plenty of time in the pocket, with tackles Walker Little<\/a> and Cole Van Lanen<\/a> more than holding their own against Texans ends Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter. The Texans’ pass-rushing duo combined for four tackles, but neither got a sack and neither seemed to even affect Lawrence. The offense will be fine, but the defense must dig deep after another game in which the Jaguars didn’t sack the quarterback or get the opposing offense off the field often enough in the second half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, United Kingdom \u2013 Senior writer John Oehser, senior correspondent Brian Sexton, team reporter Kainani Stevens and correspondent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3214,881,168069,116,118,117,880,884,883,3215],"class_list":["post-431463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-category-waste-pro","tag-front-page-headline","tag-houston-texans-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2026-reg-6","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-news-quick-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}