0:27 back, 31:30 won
Jaguars historically strike in the NFL playoffs
1/15/2023 8:02 am
0:27 just before the break, 31:30 at the end of the game: The Jacksonville Jaguars threw out the Los Angeles Chargers with one of the biggest comebacks in NFL playoff history. “You couldn’t write a crazier script,” said quarterback Jackson Lawrence.
The Jacksonville Jaguars defeated the Los Angeles Chargers in one of the greatest playoff comebacks in NFL history. After trailing 27-0 late in the first half, the outsider turned the American football duel with the Chargers on Saturday night and ended up winning 31-30. According to US media, there have only been two games in the history of the NFL playoffs with a larger gap that has still been made up. In 1992, the Bills turned from a deficit of 32 points, in 2013 the Colts one from 28. The decision for the Jaguars brought a field goal with the clock running out.
“You couldn’t write a crazier script. In the dressing room, we said it’s a bit like our season is going, we’re never quite out of the fight,” said Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. In the first half, he made four bad passes to the opponent and then made it possible to catch up with four touchdown passes. “I had bad passes in the first half, we didn’t look good offensively, but we just kept believing in each other,” he told NBC. “One playoff game, 27 points down, we’re always counted in those games but we don’t care. We love it.”
The Jaguars had such a poor record in each of the two previous seasons, with just four wins in total, that they had the first pick in the draft, which should go to the weakest team of the previous season. In 2021, the Jaguars brought quarterback Lawrence to Florida. “I didn’t have much of a choice. If you want to get out of this hole, you have to score a lot of points,” Lawrence said of his four bad passes. “I didn’t want to be the reason these guys lose here today.”
It wasn’t the Jaguars’ first comeback this season. They already managed to turn the game around in the games against the Las Vegas Raiders, the Tennessee Titans, the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens. They made up 17 points against the Raiders. Who the Jaguars meet in the second playoff round will be decided in the further duels of the wild card round.