3 Reasons the Jaguars Dominated the Patriots, 35-6

The useful part

Sunday, turning what initially looked like a competitive game into a procession after halftime. The Patriots were held without a touchdown, Drake Maye was responsible for three turnovers, and Jacksonville scored 28 unanswered points after New England's second field goal. The Jaguars are now 2-1, have won 10 of their last 11 regular-season games and have won six straight at EverBank Stadium.

How it works

• That's how a 21-3 lead became 28-3 in the space of 18 seconds of game clock.
• They punished every mistake the Patriots gave them, and that is how a close game becomes a blowout.
• Tuten carried 28 times for 131 yards through the opening two games, and against a Patriots defense that had not allowed a 100-yard rusher during the first two weeks of the season, he continued to get the work.
• Tuten wasn't the only Jacksonville back to contribute — Chris Rodriguez also scored — but the distribution of the workload tells its own story.
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What to take from it

There were plenty of individual performances worthy of praise, but three things in particular explain why this became such a one-sided afternoon. Trevor Lawrence and Liam Coen are in lockstep There is a difference between a quarterback playing well and a quarterback looking completely synchronized with his offensive system. The numbers themselves are solid rather than spectacular: 19-of-29 for 182 yards and three touchdowns.

Example or evidence

• The drive was kept alive by an 18-yard completion to Parker Washington on third-and-5, and Lawrence was consistently making the throws Coen's offense needed him to make.
• Marcus Jones intercepted Lawrence's pass after it deflected off Brenton Strange's hands, giving the Patriots possession at the Jacksonville 21-yard line.
• New England converted that mistake into a field goal and suddenly had the deficit down to 7-3.
• Jacksonville went 65 yards in nine plays, and Lawrence finished the drive by finding Jakobi Meyers for a 10-yard touchdown.

Details worth keeping

A week after letting a game slip away in Denver, Liam Coen's team returned home to face the defending AFC champions with a fairly simple challenge: prove that the 20-13 loss to the Broncos was a stumble rather than a sign of things to come. Trevor Lawrence looked like the latter on Sunday. The most telling sequence came after New England finally got a break.

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