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FOX Sports’ NFL experts provide the biggest takeaways from every Sunday game in Week 13 and what they mean for each team going forward.
Texans: We talk so much about the Texans’ offensive woes in the second half of games, but what about the defensive side of the ball? DeMeco Ryans’ unit is just as much at fault for the team’s season-long late duds. It happened again on Sunday. The Mac Jones-led Jaguars, who combined for 13 points the past two games, scored 14 points in the final few minutes of the fourth quarter, creating a nail-biting finish. Breakdowns by Houston’s defense piled up — just like against Tennessee last week, when the Texans allowed a 70-yard catch and run touchdown in the fourth quarter of their surprising loss, and against Detroit in Week 10, when Houston gave up 19 unanswered points in the second half. With a quarterback like C.J. Stroud and a running back like Joe Mixon, Houston can close any game. But scraping by is not a sustainable recipe for success against playoff-caliber teams in January.
Jaguars: Is this the last we’ve seen of Trevor Lawrence this season? It has to be at least under consideration. He was quickly ruled out Sunday with a concussion after taking a late, vicious hit from Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, leading to the QB being carted to the locker room. And Lawrence had entered the game less than 100 percent, with a sprained AC joint in his left shoulder that forced him to miss the previous two games. Jacksonville has five games left in a season that’s going nowhere, Doug Pederson’s tenure as Jaguars coach is very likely over after the season — if not sooner — and the franchise is less than six months removed from its five-year, $275 million investment in Lawrence. So it makes sense to keep the QB on the shelf for the rest of the year, even if he’s healthy enough to finish 2024, and get him prepped for a resurgent 2025. —Ben Arthur
Cardinals: It looked for much of the game like the kind of validating win…
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