“The year off made me think about a lot of things, and one of them was to enjoy the moment and really express your excitement and joy. [Today was] a great way to do it.” Doug Pederson, to AlbertBreer, on celebrating the now-contending Jaguars
As the ball bounced off the midsection of Cowboys receiver Noah Brown and back into the waiting arms of Rayshawn Jenkins, the Jaguars’ safety covered the remaining 52 yards of grass in front of him for a game-winning pick-six. His first-year coach, Doug Pederson, really didn’t have to think twice.
Go nuts, Doug. On Halloween, the Jaguars were 2–6. The players who’d been around since the start of 2020 were 6–35 over that two-and-a-half-season stretch and on their third coach , having endured the surreal nightmare of the single-season Urban Meyer era. They had scars, for sure. But they also were following Pederson, after all they’d been through, and even when the wins weren’t coming.
Those six losses? All came by a single possession. Some were more encouraging than others. Hanging with the Eagles, for example, was a lot better than losing to the Texans or the Colts. But the players kept playing hard, and listening, and that didn’t guarantee anything except a shot at the sort of result they’d eventually get.
Moments like that, of course, weren’t exactly rare for guys who’d been around the team a while. And it was Pederson’s job to break them of the habits that harvested those results. The dam broke in Week 9, with a roaring comeback from a 17–0 deficit against the Raiders, including a 17–0 second half that gave the Jags a 27–20 win. And as that happened, Pederson started feeling the sort of growth he knew was possible—the kind of growth he envisioned when he took the job.
Sure enough, when the good things started happening Sunday, largely on the strong right arm of Lawrence, they happened in waves. “Marvin did an outstanding job there of just going one on one with the corner,” Pederson says. “And then Trevor saw the leverage that Marvin had and just put a nice little ball out there, nice little touch pass to the front half of the end zone. Just a great effort both ways.
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