With Blake Bortles completing 13 of 15 passes for 155 yards and a touchdown, the Jacksonville Jaguars took 14-10 lead at halftime of Sunday's AFC Championship Game with the Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
With Blake Bortles completing 13 of 15 passes for 155 yards and a touchdown, the Jacksonville Jaguars took 14-10 lead at halftime of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game with the Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
Playing with black tape on his right hand, the result of the thumb injury he suffered at practice on Wednesday, Tom Brady showed no ill effects in completing all six passes he threw on the game’s first possession for 57 yards, leading to a 31-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski.
But the Patriots’ offense fell silent after that until James White went in from the 1 with 55 seconds remaining in the first half.
The drive was aided by two Jacksonville penalties for 46 yards, one a personal foul on safety Barry Church that left tight end Rob Gronkowski woozy and sent him to the locker room.
The Jaguars’ two scores were both 4-yarders, one a touchdown pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis, the other a run by Leonard Fournette.