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Conor Orr

Doug Pederson Running Out of Time to Reach Trevor Lawrences’s Ceiling

Lawrence and the Jaguars looked out of sorts in Jacksonville's 18–13 Week 2 loss to the Browns. | Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

After a 33-yard scramble by Trevor Lawrence to set the Jacksonville Jaguars up inside the 3-yard line for a first-and-goal situation in the second quarter Sunday, Doug Pederson took his second timeout. 

The play call coming out of said timeout was a handoff to Travis Etienne Jr. who was stuffed two yards into the Jaguars’ backfield. The next play was an incomplete pass, after which the Jaguars were forced to use their third timeout of the half with 4:51 to go in the second quarter (Lawrence spiked the football in frustration). The play call coming out of said timeout was a pass for Lawrence against six Cleveland Browns defenders positioned either right in front of the end zone or inside it. There did not appear to be any complementary receiver action to legally pick a defender and create an opening. Lawrence fired the ball toward Gabe Davis and it fell incomplete. 

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