{"id":416779,"date":"2023-01-26T17:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=416779"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:36:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:36:02","slug":"jaguars-gm-trevor-lawrence-doug-pederson-a-match-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/jaguars-gm-trevor-lawrence-doug-pederson-a-match-made-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars GM: Trevor Lawrence &#038; Doug Pederson &#8216;A Match Made In Heaven&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Baalke, general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars, believes that the relationship between second-year quarterback Trevor Lawrence and first-year head coach Doug Pederson has only just begun.<\/p>\n<h2>Jaguars GM: Trevor Lawrence &amp; Doug Pederson &#8216;A Match Made In Heaven&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;That\u2019s a marriage made in heaven there because they related to each other that way (being coolheaded),&#8221; Baalke told reporters about the Lawrence-Pederson partnership, <\/em>per <a href=\"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2023\/01\/25\/trent-baalke-trevor-lawrence-is-certainly-trending-toward-being-elite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myles Simmons<\/a> of Pro Football Talk<em>. &#8220;They\u2019re both fearless, Trevor doesn\u2019t fear anything. They\u2019re very authentic, so when you have leaders at the quarterback position and at the head coach position that are like that, everybody else just kind of falls in line.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jaguars&#39; Run to AFC&#39;s Final 4 Has Trevor Lawrence, Doug Pederson in Elite Company <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AutNcQ4hoE\">https:\/\/t.co\/AutNcQ4hoE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Shipley (@_John_Shipley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_John_Shipley\/status\/1615906707569254400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In less than a full season, the Jaguars rightly abandoned the Urban Meyer experiment and hired Pederson in the offseason. The team was &#8220;pressing the reset button,&#8221; as Pederson pledged during the spring, with Lawrence, and the 23-year-old later remarked that he and the new coaching staff were &#8220;on the same page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars under Pederson started 3-7 before winning five straight games to win the AFC South. The Jacksonville Jaguars then overcame a 27-0 deficit to shock the Los Angeles Chargers in the playoff wild-card round before suffering a 27-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs the following weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;They\u2019re both fearless, Trevor doesn\u2019t fear anything.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars believe the franchise has struck gold by teaming up Doug Pederson with Trevor Lawrence.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qRIUDYLS9x\">https:\/\/t.co\/qRIUDYLS9x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1618614862698975233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is &#8220;definitely trending,&#8221; according to Baalke, toward being a premier NFL quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars were 2-1 with victory over the Colts and Chargers at one point in the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>After that, they lost their next five games in a row, dropping to 2-6. However, following a Week 10 loss to the Chiefs, the team won seven of its next eight games to take the AFC South title and a playoff match against Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jaguars coach Doug Pederson on Trevor Lawrence: &quot;I\u2019ve said this before that the success of your football team lies with your quarterback and you\u2019ve got to get that piece and that player right and I feel that Jacksonville got that person right. And he\u2019s just going to get better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael DiRocco (@ESPNdirocco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNdirocco\/status\/1616978552276267009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars&#8217; future appears as promising as it has in a long time going into the 2023 offseason, especially with quarterback Trevor Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 No. 1 overall pick finished the regular season having completed 66.3 percent of his passes for 4,113 yards with 25 touchdowns and eight interceptions \u2014 good for a 95.2 passer rating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9fhpiXVNqJo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE NFL UPDATES-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NFL Tight End Benjamin Watson Shares \u2018Worst Interview\u2019 Moment During NFL Combine\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nfl-tight-end-benjamin-watson-shares-worst-interview-moment-during-nfl-combine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NFL Tight End Benjamin Watson Shares \u2018Worst Interview\u2019 Moment During NFL Combine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tom Brady Touring Miami Schools For His Kids Leads To Dolphins Speculation\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/tom-brady-touring-miami-schools-for-his-kids-leads-to-dolphins-speculation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tom Brady Touring Miami Schools For His Kids Leads To Dolphins Speculation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Baalke, general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars, believes that the relationship between second-year quarterback Trevor Lawrence and first-year head coach Doug Pederson has only just begun. Jaguars GM: Trevor Lawrence &amp; Doug Pederson &#8216;A Match Made In Heaven&#8217; &#8220;That\u2019s a marriage made in heaven there because they related to each other that way (being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":416780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,48],"tags":[4617,2211,2819,4812,4813],"class_list":["post-416779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jacksonville-jaguars","category-nfl","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-nfl-updates","tag-trevor-lawrence-doug-pederson","tag-trevor-lawrence-doug-pederson-match-made-in-heaven"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416779","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}