The Facts: For nearly two months, Lawrence and the Jaguars were without a head coach. It wasn't until Thursday night, almost 50 days after Urban Meyer's departure, that the Jags found their guy in former Eagles coach Doug Pederson. "We're really excited obviously," Lawrence said on Saturday. "Everybody's really relieved we got our guy, and to be able to move forward and go to work now is a really good feeling."

Diehards Line: Lawrence struggled early in his rookie season, as first-year quarterbacks are wont to do. The former Clemson QB completed 59.6 percent of his passes for 3,641 yards, 12 TDs and a league-high 17 INTs as Jacksonville stumbled to a league-worst 3-14 record. In an uninspiring offense, Lawrence did not look comfortable in the pros until late in the campaign. After working for less than a season under Meyer, a longtime college coach who never played in the NFL, Lawrence sees in Pederson, a former NFL quarterback who's coached in the pros since 2009, someone to whom he can relate and with whom he can prosper. "He played the quarterback position," Lawrence explained, "so he sees it through my lens more so than a lot of coaches that haven't played the position." A major reason Pederson was considered and eventually hired to be the seventh head coach in Jaguars history was to get the most out of Lawrence, the 2021 first overall pick and face of the franchise. Pederson struck gold in Philadelphia with 2016 second overall pick Carson Wentz in the QB's second season before he was lost to a season-ending knee injury, and he worked wonders with journeyman backup Nick Foles when Wentz went down, as Philly marched to an improbable win in Super Bowl LII and its first title.