Trevor Lawrence is optimistic about the Jaguars in 2024 NFL season

Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL 2023 regular season had a record of 9-8 and failed to make post season after they lost to Tennessee Titans.

Have the Jaguars made the requisite progress this offseason to get them into the playoffs? Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence seems to agree with the statement.

Finally, starting his fourth year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, this version of the team is the best one according to Lawrence.

Going by what Lawrence told NFL Network, he probably meant it when he said, ‘The best days are definitely ahead of us. ’ >On an individual basis, in my game, I am definitely not close to playing my best football and that is something that is yet to come in my game, that’s why I am really looking forward to it.

Jaguars have signed many productive players through the free agency to try and make sure the organization’s best years are still ahead.

The Jaguars signed Arik Armstead to a three years, $ 51 million deal in the defensive tackles position. Jaguars defensive line was not as strong last season and getting armstead would be a step on the right direction on building a better defense. Bills agreed to sign wide receiver Gabe Davis to a three-year, $39 million contract, corner Mitch Morse to a two-year, $10. NFC South champions Bucs lost 5 million contract key players include, left guard ezra Cleveland, safety Darnell Savage, running back D’Ernest Johnson, defensive tackle Jeremiah Ledbetter cornerback Ronald Darby, Wide receiver devin Duvernay, Linebacker Trevis Gipson, offensive lineman Blake Hance and safety Daniel Thomas.

While Jaguars received numerous players, the team also went out on the field with less talent, such as Calvin Ridley who left the team after the 2023 season and joined the Titans, an opponent team. Other moves that the Jaguars made include the release of Dequan Jackson from the line of linebackers, and Wayne Ruby from the line of wide receivers but he was waived-injured.

The Jaguars did not get to playoffs in the last season but Lawrence had his moments. He hit for approximately 66 percent of the passes and getting 21 touchdowns. Despite that, he got injured for four times throughout the team’s season schedule; Week 6 left knee injury against the Colts, Week 13 ankle injury against the Bengals, Week 15 concussion against the Ravens and Week 16 shoulder A/C joint sprain against the Buccaneers.

Following Lawrence’s optimism about the 2024 Jaguars squad Jorge Andres, Craig Carton was asked whether he opines that the Jaguars offense has gotten better over the offseason on the Carton Show. Carton wasn't very optimistic.

That I don’t know, because I don’t know what Trevor Lawrence is anymore, Carton said. ”This was a team that nine weeks into last year, they had the number-one seed sitting right there on a platter. All he had to do is to play better football. Certainly the team would have won the division and even more importantly, have home-field advantage right through the playoffs. ”

Carton insisted that with the evidence of C. J. Stroud performing with the Houston Texans the label of the best quarterback in the AFC South belongs no longer to Trevor Lawrence.

The guest called C. J. Stroud happened with the Houston Texans, and the case can no longer be made that Lawrence is the best quarterback in the division: he isn’t, C. J. Stroud is, or that Jags is the best team in the division: they aren’t; the Houston Texans are.

Moreover, Carton said that since wide-receiver Calvin Ridley is no longer with the team the Jaguar’s offense is worse than it was last year and therefore, challenged Lawrence’s continued assertion that ‘the best is yet to come.

‘This is a prove it year for Trevor Lawrence,’ Carton said. >”The issue is that it is now year 3 of the Pederson System and Doug Pederson is actually a good coach and yes, he did win a Super Bowl but he was hired to do what Urban Meyer could not, to unlock the potential of Trevor Lawrence and frankly that did not happen last year.