Jaguars Rout Patriots 35-6 in Week 3: Trevor Lawrence Throws 3 TDs as Drake Maye's Turnover Woes Deepen

Liam Coen spent the week telling his players that the only thing that mattered was how they responded. Sunday, the Jaguars turned that sermon into a beatdown. Trevor Lawrence threw three touchdown passes, the defense took the ball away three times, and Jacksonville flattened the New England Patriots 35-6 at EverBank Stadium.

One week after blowing a lead in a 20-13 loss at Denver, the Jaguars never trailed. Meanwhile the Patriots, the reigning AFC champions, left Florida with a much louder problem. Drake Maye put the ball on the ground twice (New England lost one), tossed two more picks and watched most of the fourth quarter from the sideline. His three-game line now reads one touchdown pass, six interceptions. That is not a slump anymore. That is a storyline.

A Slow Burn That Turned Into a Bonfire

The first quarter was a feeling-out process until Maye went down on a sack near midfield and the ball squirted loose, with DaVon Hamilton pouncing on it at the Jacksonville 38. The Jaguars turned that into a 10-play, 62-yard drive capped by Lawrence's 12-yard strike to Josh Cameron, who was on the field plenty in Brian Thomas Jr.'s place.

New England briefly found a pulse. Marcus Jones picked off a Lawrence pass that deflected off Brenton Strange's hands and returned it to the Jacksonville 21, but the Patriots managed only a 35-yard Andy Borregales field goal after a holding flag wiped out a Maye touchdown scramble. The highlight of that drive was pure chaos: facing first-and-30, Maye threw a backward pass to Efton Chism III, who dodged a tackle near the sideline and flung a tipped completion to Mack Hollins for 16 yards. It looked like a backyard play drawn in the dirt, and it worked.

Jacksonville answered with a 9-play, 65-yard march and a 10-yard touchdown from Lawrence to Jakobi Meyers, who did his damage against his former team. Then Maye drove the Patriots to the 2, and on third-and-goal he threw into traffic. Travis Hunter was waiting in the end zone for the first interception of his career with 1:02 left in the half.

Cam Little closed the half by trying a 70-yard field goal, and the ball had the legs, just not the aim, drifting barely wide right. He already owns the NFL record at 68 yards, set at Las Vegas in 2025, so consider this a reminder that he is one gust of wind from rewriting it.

Lawrence Runs the Show

Lawrence finished 19 of 29 for 182 yards with three touchdowns and one interception on that tipped ball. He was efficient rather than flashy, and the Jaguars did not need flashy. His 10-yard touchdown to Meyers moved him past Blake Bortles into second on the franchise's career touchdown passes list with 104, according to the team's site.

"We were just ready to play," Lawrence said. "Guys were flying around. At the end of the day, that's what it's about. It's the players executing the plan."

Meyers led the team with seven catches for 64 yards, and Bhayshul Tuten carried 15 times for 73 yards and a touchdown. Parker Washington supplied the catch of the day, and Hunter supplied the moment of the day. "It felt great, but I was on to the next play," Hunter said, according to the Jaguars' site. "That happened in the second quarter, so I had to finish the game."

Eighteen Seconds That Ended It

Leading 14-3, the Jaguars opened the third quarter by watching Borregales push a 38-yard field goal wide right. Then they went on a 15-play, 72-yard drive that ate 8:42 off the clock, survived a touchdown wiped out by a penalty, and finally cashed in on third-and-goal from the 17. Lawrence went deep left and Washington made a fingertip grab in the end zone, with a pass interference flag against New England declined because, well, why bother.

On the very next snap, Maye threw the ball straight to cornerback Jarrian Jones, who returned it 31 yards to the 5 before Maye himself shoved him out of bounds. Chris Rodriguez Jr. scored from 5 yards out, and two touchdowns in 18 seconds turned a game into a 28-3 rout. It was the football equivalent of a jump scare followed by a second jump scare.

Numbers That Tell the Story

• 317 to 315: New England actually outgained Jacksonville. Read that again.
• 5 for 5 vs. 0 for 3: The red zone split, which is where this game was decided.
• 3 to 1: The turnover margin, and each New England giveaway hurt.
• 15 of 20: Coen's record to start his head coaching career. Per the AP, he is the first NFL coach to win 15 of his first 20 since Matt LaFleur in 2020.

Add Kyle Williams wandering out of bounds on a kickoff return and Hollins drawing a taunting flag that shrank a fourth-and-1 chance into three points, and you have the full blooper reel. Those were New England's final points of the day, which feels about right.

Jacksonville's Climb, New England's Crisis

The Jaguars (2-1) have now won six straight regular-season home games and, per the team's site, lead the AFC South by a game. After Denver, there were questions about whether this group could finish. Sunday, it finished with Lawrence taking a knee at the 1 with more than eight minutes left just to bleed clock, before Tuten punched it in anyway. They play at Cincinnati next Sunday.

For the Patriots (1-2), every conversation now starts with Maye. He threw 31 touchdowns and eight interceptions last season, per the AP, and that version of him has vanished. "More that we get out of our own way, the more the confidence in myself and this team will build," Maye said. "That's something that starts with practice and it starts with me."

Mike Vrabel's diagnosis was blunt but fair. "I think he knows what to do," Vrabel said. "I think we have to do it better." New England also lost right guard Greg Van Roten to a thigh injury in the first half. Buffalo is next, and that is not a soft landing.

You Get What You Emphasize

Coen's whole week was built around one idea, and his team executed it like a tribute act that somehow outplays the original band. "You get what you emphasize so much with this team," Coen said. In Jacksonville right now, the emphasis is winning, and the response was loud enough to hear in Foxborough.

Stats from the official box score via ESPN. Postgame quotes as reported by the Associated Press, plus Travis Hunter's quote and franchise notes from the Jacksonville Jaguars (jaguars.com).