JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The Jaguars may or may not ever earn respect.<\/p>\n
What they’re doing in the meantime is winning \u2013 and doing so in increasingly impressive fashion, with a quarterback playing the same way.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Trevor Lawrence passed for 5 touchdowns and ran for another, and the surging AFC South-leading Jaguars turned in yet another one-sided late-season victory \u2013 48-20 over the New York Jets in front of 60,815 at EverBank Stadium Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Lawrence completed 3 touchdown passes to running back Travis Etienne Jr. and 1 each to running back Bhayshul Tuten and wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. \u2013 finishing 20 of 32 for 330 yards passing with 0 interceptions and a 136.7 passer rating.<\/p>\n
Lawrence led the Jaguars with 51 yards rushing on 5 carries.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars (10-4) won their fifth consecutive game, their sixth in the last 7 games. They remain in first place in the AFC South, one game ahead of the Houston Texans (9-5) \u2013 40-20 winners over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday. The 8-5 Indianapolis Colts play Seattle at 4:25 Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars improved to 6-2 at home this season, 6-1 in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars, who spoke throughout the week of respect and being overlooked nationally, scored touchdowns on their first three possessions \u2013 with Lawrence throwing 2 touchdowns and running for a third. They led 14-7 after a quarter and 31-10 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars retain the No. 3 seed in the AFC and will play the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos in Denver Sunday. They have won four of their last five games by 17 or more points.<\/p>\n
Jets quarterback Brady Cook completed 22 of 33 passes for 176 yards and 1 touchdown with 3 interception, with the Jaguars registering 3 sacks \u2013 1 each by defensive ends B.J. Green and Dennis Gardeck and safety Eric Murray.<\/p>\n
Cornerback Montaric Brown set up a touchdown late in the first half with an interception and linebacker Ventrell Miller intercepted Cook in the end zone in the fourth quarter. Safety Antonio Johnson had a late fourth-quarter interception.<\/p>\n
2025 Week 15, Step by step:<\/p>\n
Thomas’ 4-yard reception capped a 9-play, 72-yard drive on the game’s opening possession and gave the Jaguars a 7-0 lead with 10:18 remaining in the first quarter; Lawrence completed 5 of 6 passes for 52 yards on the drive. Lawrence’s 15-yard scramble on third-and-13 capped a 5-play, 38-yard drive and gave the Jaguars a 14-0 lead with 6:24 remaining in the first quarter; defensive end Travon Walker stopped running back Breece Hall for a 6-yard loss on fourth-and-1 from the Jets 44 to set up the drive. Jets wide receiver Adonai Mitchell caught a 9-yard pass from Cook to cap an 8-play, 65-yard drive and cut the lead to 14-7 with 1:47 remaining in the first quarter.
\nTuten’s 16-yard reception from Lawrence capped a 5-play, 55-yard drive and pushed the lead to 21-7 with 14:14 remaining in the second quarter; Lawrence’s 19-yard pass to wide receiver Jakobi Meyers keyed the drive and gave the Jaguars a first down at the Jets 32. Jets kicker Nick Folk’s 41-yard field goal cut the lead to 21-10 with 5:12 remaining in the second quarter and Jaguars kicker Cam Little’s 33-yard field goal capped the ensuing drive and extended the lead to 24-10 with 1:37 remaining in the half. The Jaguars increased the lead on the next possession, with Lawrence passing 20 yards to Etienne Jr. with :21 remaining in the first half for a 31-10 lead; Brown intercepted Cook at the Jets 47 to start the drive.
\nFolk’s 51-yard field goal capped a 9-play, 32-yard drive on the second half’s opening possession and cut the lead to 31-13. Lawrence capped a 7-play, 72-yard drive on the ensuing possession with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Etienne to push the lead to 38-13. Little’s 22-yard field goal with 1:43 remaining in the third quarter made it 41-13.
\nJets running back Isaiah Davis’ 24-yard run cut the lead to 41-20 with 14:08 remaining, with Lawrence’s 45-yard touchdown pass to Etienne pushing the lead to 48-20 with 13:40 remaining.<\/p>\n
Notable: Jaguars touchdowns on their first three possessions marked their first time accomplishing the feat since a 45-19 victory at Baltimore on November 1, 1998. \u2026 Wide receiver Parker Washington returned for the Jaguars Sunday after missing a Week 14 victory over the Indianapolis Colts; Jaguars inactives Sunday: left tackle Walker Little, tight end Hunter Long, defensive tackle Austin Johnson, defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah and linebacker Yasir Abdullah.<\/p>\n
Jaguars injury report: Defensive end Danny Striggow sustained a second-quarter ankle injury and returned before being ruled out for the rest of the game at halftime. Tuten sustained a third-quarter finger injury and did not return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The Jaguars may or may not ever earn respect. What they’re doing in the meantime is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35968,36244,9,11,35972,10,35969,36246,36245,35970],"class_list":["post-70587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-front-page-headline","tag-john-oehser","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-reg-15","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-report","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-jaguars-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}