The Jaguars are coming off a disappointing loss to the Seahawks. Liam Coen’s team forced 0 turnovers, took 7 sacks, and committed 10 penalties on Sunday.
“It’s on me,” Coen said after the game. “It’s an
undisciplined operation at the moment, and it’s on me. It’s got to get fixed.”
“I thought it was a very honest locker room in there in terms of understanding, guys, that we will not beat good quality teams like this, whether you’re home, on the road, in London, on the west coast. Doesn’t matter, if we continue to hurt ourselves and have these self-inflicted wounds, that ultimately is on me.”
As Week 7 approaches, we rounded up the latest NFL power rankings to get a sense of how the Jaguars are viewed nationally.
USA Today: 9 (last week: 6)
Talented, young teams six days removed from defeating an active dynasty are prone to letdowns. Let’s see how the Jags rebound against the potentially depleted Rams to conclude their three-game “homestand” in London.
The Athletic: 10 (5)
From Josh Kendall and Chad Graff:
Fantasy focus: Travis Hunter. The rookie wide receiver/cornerback was one of the biggest risk/reward picks of the fantasy season. So far, the reward hasn’t arrived. Hunter has played 241 offensive snaps and 203 defensive snaps, but those defensive snaps aren’t helping his fantasy numbers. He’s averaging 6.62 fantasy points per game, which ranks 212th in the league, because he has only 20 receptions for 197 yards and no touchdowns. His ADP was 73rd. To make matters worse, on Sunday, he lined up offside and negated a 54-yard touchdown pass to Brian Thomas Jr.
Pro Football Talk: 12 (6)
A correction was overdue.
Fox Sports: 12 (10)
Trevor Lawrence’s growth at quarterback isn’t being helped by an offensive line that got him sacked seven times against the Seahawks. The Jags didn’t open up much for the rushing attack, either.
Sports Illustrated: 13 (10)
Trevor Lawrence is 0–22 as a Jaguars starter when his team does not force a turnover. While this is a loaded statistic and includes a stretch of absolutely disastrous Urban Meyer-led football, it does support the notion that this team was leaning heavily on all of the extra possessions provided by Anthony Campanile’s defense.
NFL.com: 13 (11)
Coming off the emotional Monday night win over the Chiefs, the Jaguars’ sloppy loss to the Seahawks stings a little, especially just before shipping off for London. There were too many sacks, too many missed connections in the passing game and too many crippling penalties. The ‘Hawks took away the Jags’ ground game, including Trevor Lawrence as a scrambler, and made them one-dimensional. It was tough to generate much pass rush on defense with Travon Walker limited, and Jacksonville’s streak of forcing turnovers ended. In fact, the Jags haven’t played great defensively over the past few games. This team looks different under Liam Coen — with more promise than before — but this feels like an inflection point where things could go either way.
Yahoo Sports: 14 (8)
The Jaguars lost at home, but it was to a good Seahawks team. Some things looked good: Trevor Lawrence played well, and the run defense was very good. The Jaguars will be good, just maybe a step short of elite.
CBS Sports: 14 (8)
The offensive line was putrid in the loss to the Seahawks. Now they face a good Rams front in London. Good luck with that.
ESPN: 15 (12)
Lesson learned: The pass rush is their No. 1 weakness. The Jaguars are 13th in the NFL in quarterback pressures (73) but have managed just eight sacks — the third-lowest total in the league. Josh Hines-Allen has managed just half a sack, Travon Walker has two, and Dawuane Smoot has one. That’s the production of the team’s top three edge rushers six games into the season, which equals defensive tackle Arik Armstead’s season total on his own.
The Ringer: 15 (14)
While Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is one of the league’s best defensive minds, I’d like to believe Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence could have found more opportunities to attack a secondary as banged up as Seattle’s was on Sunday. Instead, Lawrence struggled to find answers on a down-to-down basis and took way too many sacks as a result. While I’ve made my peace with Lawrence not being the passer I expected he’d become, it’s still incredibly frustrating that he doesn’t always use his natural gifts to elevate his team.
Bleacher Report: 17 (10)
The Jags entered Week 6 with an NFL-best 14 takeaways. That’s obviously a positive, but it helped mask the reality that Jacksonville’s 23rd-ranked defense and 15th-ranked offense have been more good than great. Mistakes, drops and poor offensive line play doomed Jacksonville against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, and there were no takeaways to help even the odds. Can the Jaguars win a lot of games and possibly an AFC South title in 2025? Absolutely, but Sunday’s loss showed just how turnover-dependent Jacksonville’s defense is.
Where would you rank the team, Jaguars fans? Let us know in the comments!
