Up next for the Jacksonville Jaguars is a home matchup with the New England Patriots.
Both teams will enter this contest at 1-1, but who has the advantage in key areas of this week's game?
When looking at this week's matchup, as we know, the game is not played on paper. However, where these two teams rank in these key statistical areas could provide us with some valuable insight into where the Jaguars may have the upper hand in this game and also where they may not.
It's also important to keep in mind early on in a season that these numbers can be skewed to a degree, given the small sample size.
With so much information out there nowadays, I did my best to boil this article down to the need-to-know statistics for this matchup that do still carry
a lot of weight.
With help from Team Rankings and Pro Football Reference, here is how the Jaguars match up stat-wise with the Patriots.
Jacksonville Jaguars
- Points per game: 23.5 (15th)
- Points per game allowed: 15.0 (T6)
- Yards per rush: 3.9 (17th)
- Yards per rush allowed: 3.8 (10th)
- Yards per pass attempt: 8.3 (8th)
- Yards per pass attempt allowed: 8.9 (31st)
- Pressure rate on QB: 29.5% (8th)
- Pressure rate allowed on QB: 21.8% (13th)
- Turnover differential: +2 (T5)
- Third down conversion rate: 45.4% (10th)
- Defensive third-down conversion rate allowed: 26.3% (4th)
- Red zone success rate: 75% (T7)
- Defensive red zone success rate: 28.5% (6th)
New England Patriots
- Points per game: 15.0 (26th)
- Points per game allowed: 8.0 (1st)
- Yards per rush: 4.2 (15th)
- Yards per rush allowed: 4.2 (20th)
- Yards per pass attempt: 7.0 (18th)
- Yards per pass attempt allowed: 5.2 (4th)
- Pressure rate on QB: 24.4% (17th)
- Pressure rate allowed on QB: 26.1% (26th)
- Turnover differential: -3 (29th)
- Third-down conversion rate: 32.1% (26th)
- Defensive third-down conversion rate allowed: 17.3% (1st)
- Red zone success rate: 33.3% (T28)
- Defensive red zone success rate: 0.0% (T1)
This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jaguars vs. Patriots: Who has Week 3 advantage?













