Jaguars legend Maurice Jones-Drew explains how team can use London trip to 'springboard' into win streak

A corporate suspiration of alleviation from players, coaches, beforehand bureau unit and, of course, the fans came for the Jacksonville Jaguars erstwhile they bushed the Indianapolis Colts past week. 

Not lone was it the archetypal triumph of the 2024 play for this group, but it was the archetypal clip successful 9 starts that Trevor Lawrence, the backmost the Jaguars dished a $55 million-per-season hold to this offseason, got the sensation of victory. 

For Jaguars legendary moving backmost Maurice Jones-Drew, that archetypal triumph was monumental owed to the unit the squad had entering the 2024 campaign. 

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NFL Network commentator Maurice Jones-Drew during an NFL International Series crippled astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

"Your proprietor comes retired and says, ‘This is the twelvemonth we request to win. We person truthful overmuch talent.’ And it’s true, precise true," Jones-Drew told Fox News Digital aft gathering and grooming with United States subject members astatine Royal Air Force Lakenheath Military Base successful London up of the crippled against the Chicago Bears. 

"But I deliberation that conscionable puts much unit connected those guys to spell retired determination and play. The hardest 1 to get is your archetypal one. Once you get that archetypal one, it feels similar a batch of that unit is taken disconnected like, ‘OK, we got the archetypal 1 retired the way. Now, we tin settee successful and bash our thing.’"

Jones-Drew pointed retired how, contempt the team's 1-4 grounds to commencement the year, Jacksonville has been successful adjacent games but for the blowout nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills. Every NFL player, existent and former, knows winning those one-score games is the substance of conscionable a fewer plays. 

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The Jaguars were not making them, and that tin pb to "pressing," arsenic Jones-Drew says. 

"For them, it was kinda like, ‘Man, what is going on? We’re pressing.’ And I felt similar they were pressing excessively much. So, hopefully getting this triumph retired the way, present they tin spell connected a small tally and usage London arsenic a springboard to get them backmost into the play similar it did past year."

The NFL's yearly London games are thing players look guardant to each year, particularly if they person not been determination before. However, what is expected to beryllium a neutral crippled for some teams truly is not the case, with the Jaguars consistently going overseas each twelvemonth and processing a beardown fanbase. 

"I deliberation the Jags decided to marque this a home-field advantage, which I thought was astonishing and smart," Jones-Drew said. "A batch of teams go, ‘Oh, we got to spell overseas.’ The Jags embraced that, and I deliberation that’s fractional the conflict knowing you’re going to spell implicit determination for 2 weeks each year, play games. The Jags person a terrific instrumentality basal here, and again, I conscionable deliberation that fractional the conflict is embracing what’s going to happen.

Jacksonville Jaguars backmost Trevor Lawrence throws during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Indianapolis Colts connected Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 successful Jacksonville, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

"It’s becoming a 2nd location for them."

The Bears, led by No. 1 wide prime backmost Caleb Williams, person back-to-back wins now, and different would enactment them successful a large spot astatine 4-2 connected the year. 

So, what precisely bash the Jaguars person to bash to get that triumph streak going? 

"I deliberation one, you person to support moving the football. They request to tally the shot astatine a clip, and what I mean by clip similar 2-3 times each series," Jones-Drew explained. "You’ve got to tally the football. If you tin tally the football, it’ll instrumentality unit disconnected of Trevor due to the fact that it’s conscionable a play helium has to manus the shot disconnected and not person to think. Two, it allows your violative enactment to spell for it. And three, you acceptable the code of the crippled by moving the football. And the past one, it sets up play-action pass. That’s what you’re going to commencement to spot the Jags bash if they tin proceed to tally the football."

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr., #7, scores a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts successful the 2nd 4th astatine EverBank Stadium. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

Jones-Drew besides mentioned that getting to Williams successful the pouch is simply a immense facet of this crippled defensively, and helium mentioned Josh Hines-Allen disconnected the borderline arsenic having a imaginable breakout game, due to the fact that the Bears' violative tackles person been fishy to commencement the year. 

There is inactive unit connected these Jaguars to get backmost into this twelvemonth aft digging specified a speedy hole. However, the quicksand they were successful earlier – Jones-Drew made the metaphor – is seemingly disappearing aft that win. 

Perhaps now, Lawerence and institution tin conscionable spell retired and play their crippled successful a precise acquainted spot overseas. 

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Before Jones-Drew enjoyed watching his erstwhile team, helium got to marque caller subject friends alongside Bears fable Charles "Peanut" Tillman astatine Royal Air Force Lakenheath, wherever they ran USAA’s NFL Salute to Service Boot Camp for men and women to trial retired their shot skills. 

While investigating their 40-yard dashes, shuttles, wide jumps and more, Jones-Drew explained the interaction the lawsuit had connected him arsenic idiosyncratic who already had the utmost respect for those who sacrifice their lives to support america astatine home. 

Maurice Jones-Drew and Charles Tillman conscionable subject members astatine the RAF Lakenheath Military Base. (USAA)

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"These are radical that are consenting to wage the eventual terms for our freedom," helium said. "So, conscionable to get to cognize them, inquire questions. I saw a Raiders instrumentality there, which was awesome. I saw a Jags fan, determination was a mates Jags fans determination – that was big. Just to speech astir the game, and again, each time they person the quality to beryllium called retired to duty. To springiness them that small interruption and small solace cheering for your squad oregon talking astir the Jags oregon immoderate squad we were talking astir – wherefore they had a atrocious commencement oregon wherefore they had a bully commencement – was the slightest that I could bash to amusement my gratitude and acknowledgment for what they’ve done and what they are doing."

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