{"id":278513,"date":"2021-07-27T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/gardner-minshew-ii-no-2-is-not-an-option-in-jags-qb-battle\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:29:03","slug":"gardner-minshew-ii-no-2-is-not-an-option-in-jags-qb-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/gardner-minshew-ii-no-2-is-not-an-option-in-jags-qb-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Minshew II: &#8216;No. 2 is not an option&#8217; in Jags&#8217; QB battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gardner Minshew II was quite graphic in declaring his disinterest in accepting the No. 2 role in the Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; quarterback competition.<\/h1>\n<h2>Minshew, 25, will be battling 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/nfl.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> Draft top overall pick Trevor Lawrence for the starting job.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll say this man, in preparation for the competition, I haven&#8217;t taken a (expletive) in weeks, because No. 2 isn&#8217;t an option for me. No. 2 is not an option,&#8221; Minshew said on &#8220;The Green Light&#8221; podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gardner Minshew on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Greenlight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Greenlight<\/a> podcast with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JOEL9ONE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JOEL9ONE<\/a> said he is ready to compete with Trevor Lawrence during camp.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cNumber 2 is not an option for me.\u201d \ud83d\udca9\ud83d\udca9\ud83d\udca9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3iCgS292Xq\">pic.twitter.com\/3iCgS292Xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jamal St. Cyr (@JStCyrTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JStCyrTV\/status\/1419110839341158401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minshew burst on the scene during his rookie season in 2019, taking over for an injured Nick <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/chicago-bears-can-be-happy-that-someone-really-wants-nick-foles\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foles<\/a> in the season opener. He threw for 3,271 yards with 21 touchdowns and six interceptions in 14 games for Jacksonville, which finished with a 6-10 record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Minshew, like the Jaguars, had a much more difficult time in 2020. He played in just nine games and battled for playing time with Foles, Mike Glennon and even Jate Luton as Jacksonville limped to a 1-15 mark.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/when-will-trevor-lawrence-face-his-first-defeat\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence <\/a>was 34-2 as a starter at Clemson and led the Tigers to the national championship as a freshman. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 quarterback completed 758 of 1,138 passes at Clemson for 10,098 yards, 90 touchdowns and 17 interceptions. He also ran for 943 yards and 18 TDs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is the only quarterback ever to win three Atlantic Coast Conference championship games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trevor, pulling up for his first media day!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DUUUVAL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DUUUVAL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9z8MYkHeb\">pic.twitter.com\/q9z8MYkHeb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacksonville Jaguars (@Jaguars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaguars\/status\/1419995445913391131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardner Minshew II was quite graphic in declaring his disinterest in accepting the No. 2 role in the Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; quarterback competition. Minshew, 25, will be battling 2021 NFL Draft top overall pick Trevor Lawrence for the starting job. &#8220;I&#8217;ll say this man, in preparation for the competition, I haven&#8217;t taken a (expletive) in weeks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1767],"class_list":["post-278513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-gardner-minshew"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}