his 26th birthday on gameday, lost a fumble and threw an interception earlier in the game, and made a questionable decision to take a sack on the fi nal drive plus took a delay-of- game penalty. Then, of all things, a nearly unprecedented “slip-six” to win the game. On fi rst-and-goal at the 1-yard line with :30 remaining and no timeouts, Lawrence took the snap from under center, but right guard Patrick Mekari stepped on Lawrence’s right foot and the quarterback fell. Untouched, and unfazed, he struggled to fi nd his feet twice, but then ran to his left, stepped out of an ankle tackle and dove into the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown with :23 remaining. “Panic… sheer panic,” Lawrence told ESPN reporter Laura Rutledge on fi eld after the game. “We didn’t have any time-outs, so I was really going to stand up and launch it out of the back of the end zone, but then I had a little bit of a lane, so I took it and scored from there,” Lawrence later told media in the postgame press conference. The drive went seven plays and 60 yards in 1:22, and followed a Chiefs 12-play, 86-yard touchdown drive in 6:23, a methodical march that gave them the lead with 1:45 remaining. “He got stepped on and he’s coming out of it and you’re like, oh, my gosh, throw it away so we can have another down,” Head Coach Liam Coen said. “Man, what an individual effort. Obviously tough moment where -- I can only imagine where he was at in that moment on the ground, but to get up, break, what, three tackles or whatever it was, two tackles and shed some dude off and go run it in the (endzone) -- that’s an unbelievable individual effort. “Yeah, we’d love it to be cleaner, and just make it a nice executed play, but at the end of the day, it’s about winning, and I’m proud of the toughness that he showed at the end of that game.” Lawrence used his running ability in key moments throughout the game and fi nished as the Jaguars’ leading rusher with 10 carries for 54 yards and two rushing touchdowns. He also connected with wide receivers Brian Thomas Jr. and Dyami Brown on key passes back-to-back to set up the goal-line sequence. It was a fi tting end to one of the wildest games in recent history, with big plays on both sides of the ball for the Jaguars. Trailing 7-0 early, The Jaguars offense drove the fi eld and faced fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line. Lawrence leapt over the line and tried to reach the ball over the goal line but was stopped an inch short when the ball was punched out of his hands and recovered by the Chiefs at their 3-yard line. Five plays later, the Chiefs found the end zone for a second time and a 14-0 advantage. The Jaguars regrouped and drove the fi eld again on the next possession, this time 13 plays in over eight minutes and Lawrence found Parker Washington for a 3-yard touchdown to cut the Chiefs lead to 14-7 and keep the game within reach. “The resiliency is really what I think this team has and has continued to show,” Coen said. “There was really no fl inch or blink when you’re down 14-0. I think early on we might have had a little bit of bright eyes in a kind of big game, that you can understand a little bit, in some ways.” Coming out of halftime, the Jaguars defense forced punt on the opening Chiefs possession, and the Jaguars started from their own 13-yard line. Three plays later, Lawrence hit wide receiver Travis Hunter on a 44-yard pass when Hunter jumped over two defenders and made an acrobatic catch to fl ip the fi eld and moved the ball from the Jaguars 28-yard line to the Chiefs 28. Five plays later, Lawrence scrambled for a 10- yard touchdown to tie the game 14-14. This set the stage for the defense to continue what they have done all season long: take the ball away, and this time they did even better. The Chiefs had moved the ball 10 plays and were set up with second-and-goal from the 3-yard line. The Jaguars showed middle pressure from the linebackers, but Devin
