Drake Maye threw for 199 yards and the Patriots lost by 29 points. That sentence is the game.
Maye finished 14-of-25 at 8.0 yards an attempt, which reads like a functional afternoon until you stack it against zero touchdowns, two interceptions, three sacks, a lost fumble and a 15.5 QBR. Jacksonville 35, New England 6. The Jaguars are 2-1, the Patriots 1-2, and the margin belongs at least as much to New England's offense as to anything Jacksonville did.
Three Patriots threw a pass. None threw a touchdown. Maye's relief work came from Tommy DeVito (3-of-5, 30 yards) and Efton Chism III, who went 1-for-1 for 16 yards. Chism finished with the best passer rating in the room, 118.8, and the best QBR, 99.0. He also caught a pass and returned a punt. The most efficient passer on the roster was a guy who threw once.
The yardage was volume without payoff. Mack Hollins caught 6 of 9 targets for 87 yards and didn't score. Romeo Doubs had 3 for 49 on 4 targets. DeMario Douglas caught 1 of 5 for 38 yards. Kyle Williams 1 of 3 for 34. Four pass catchers, real yards, zero touchdowns.
The run game gave New England nothing to lean on. TreVeyon Henderson carried 8 times for 23 yards, Rhamondre Stevenson 7 for 22, Corey Kiner 6 for 18. That's 21 carries and 63 yards for the trio, 3.0 a pop, with Maye adding 4 for 18 and losing a fumble.
Sacks and turnovers are how 199 passing yards turn into six points. Maye went down three times for 11 yards and put the ball on the ground twice.
Jacksonville's half of the box score says less than the score does. Trevor Lawrence led the passing game and also appears among the rushing leaders, alongside Bhayshul Tuten, Chris Rodriguez Jr. and Ameer Abdullah. Four names, one of them the quarterback. A committee or a rotation, the distinction didn't matter at 35 points.
New England's last real snap came at 2:39 of the fourth: DeVito incomplete deep left to Douglas, the same Douglas who caught one of five targets. Jacksonville then punted with 34 seconds left while holding a 29-point lead, Cooke's 51-yarder taken by Chism at the NE 22 and returned 18 yards to the NE 40, J. Cameron on the tackle. The Patriots never ran another play.
The takeaway isn't Jacksonville's 35. It's the 6. A 29-point loss with 199 passing yards and no touchdowns from any of three quarterbacks is not a bad afternoon, it's the absence of a scoring mechanism, and a week of film study won't manufacture one. The Jaguars are 2-1 and I don't think this game tells us much about them. The Patriots are 1-2 and this one tells us plenty: until that offense produces a touchdown pass, the record will keep sliding the wrong way, and I don't expect the fix to arrive by next Sunday.
