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These days, you don’t hear as much about the fourth-down gambles that go the other way, but Doug Pederson had one at the most critical moment of his Jaguars’ crucial AFC South showdown with the Texans on Sunday.
After Houston missed a 50-yard field goal with 25 seconds left in the first half, Jacksonville advanced the ball from its own 42 to the Texans’ 1 on a third-and-8. Trevor Lawrence found Christian Kirk on a deep crosser, and the speedy slot was pushed out by Tavierre Thomas just shy of the goal line. That brought up first-and-goal from the 1 with just a second remaining.
