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Lindsey Thiry
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Lindsey Thiry
ESPN
- Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times
- Previously covered the Falcons
- Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite building a 27-0 first-half lead, the Los Angeles Chargers saw their postseason disintegrate in the second half as the Jacksonville Jaguars stormed back for a 31-30 victory on Saturday night.
It was the third-largest comeback in playoff history. The Jaguars now advance to the AFC divisional round after their first playoff win since 2017.
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There are plenty of ways to describe the Jaguars’ performance in their wild-card win over the Chargers at TIAA Bank Field, but ridiculous pretty much covers it.
What other way to describe Trevor Lawrence throwing four interceptions in the first half — including three in the first quarter — and then the Jaguars rallying from a 27-0 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Chargers on Riley Patterson’s last-second 36-yard field goal?
It was so bad in the first half, and nothing summed up just how poorly the Jaguars played than a punt bouncing off Chris Claybrooks’ helmet that the Chargers recovered and turned into a field goal and a 27-0 lead with five minutes remaining in the first half. Nothing went right for the Jaguars in the first 30 minutes.
That was the Jaguars’ fifth turnover of the half, and it put the Jaguars into too big of a hole to overcome, though they made a surge in the second half to cut the Chargers’ lead to three points with 5:25 to play.
The last time a team turned the ball over five times in the first half of a playoff game was the Miami Dolphins in the 1999 divisional playoffs — against the Jaguars on this same field. The Jaguars won that game 62-7 and sent Dolphins…
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