Report card on the Jacksonville Jaguars 19-17 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 11.
The Jaguars stay in London and will play the Houston Texans on Oct. 18 at Wembley Stadium.
Offense: C
Kudos to Trevor Lawrence (24 of 39 for a season-high 332 yards) for getting battered and rushed all day and finding a way to get the lead at the end on his fourth-down pass to Parker Washington, who made a Parker Washington-type catch. The Jaguars also never abandoned the run and Bhayshul Tuten got a hard-earned 72 yards, 38 of them in the fourth quarter.
But the offensive line gets a solid F for a poor job of protecting Lawrence and the continual holding and false start penalties. Losing left tackle Anton Harrison to an injury
makes it a crisis situation and if Walker Little was the answer, the Jaguars could have known it a long time ago.
Defense: B
Philadelphia, which had been basket cases on third down so far this season, converted four of third-and-eight or longer in the first half, including the 62-yard TD pass from Jalen Hurts to Darius Cooper and the pass interference penalty drawn on Travis Hunter to set up the Eagles' first TD. But the defense got it cleaned up in the second half and allowed only 2 of 9 third-down conversions after halftime.
Hurts was only 10 of 24 for 98 yards in the second half but did complete 4 of 6 passes for 40 yards on the Eagles' go-ahead field-goal drive.
The Jags failed to get a turnover (except one on downs) for the first time this season but the run defense as suffocating as usual, hold Philadelphia to 22 yards on 18 carries (1.2 per carry). The Jags had five tackles for negative yardage.
Special teams: A
After the holding penalty on Branson Combs that nullified the kickoff return for a score by Josh Cameron, the special teams played a clean game. There were three heroes: Cam Little for making the walk-off 57-yard field goal, Ameer Abdullah for the 53-yard kickoff return that set it up and holder Logan Cooke for getting the high snap from DaVon Hamilton down in time for Little to deliver.
Intangibles: C
It's the mark of a good team to figure out how to win a game under adversity but the Jaguars created a lot of their own adversity with a second game in a row with 100 or more yards in penalties. They also looked lost in trying to get plays off in the red zone and there was some questionable clock management near the end of the first half.
The Jaguars offense seemed to get frustrated in front of a vocal crowd that made the game sound as if it were in Philadelphia but it's not the last loud environment they will compete in this season.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: A few low-grade performances but a high-grade victory for the Jaguars
