Agnew one of the few Jaguars stars, down night for Trevor Lawrence, kicker Brandon McManus

Taking a look at the good, the bad and the ugly from the Jaguars’ 23-7 loss to the Baltimore Ravens at EverBank Stadium.

Up: Welcome return

On a Sunday Night Football stage where little went right for the Jaguars, one player stood out above all others: Jamal Agnew.

The Jaguars’ receiver and return specialist, who returned after a four-week stint on injured reserve, combined for 178 yards when taking into account his catch numbers (2 for 70 yards), punt returns (1 for 17 yards) and kickoff returns (3 for 91 yards).

After nearly fumbling the opening kickoff, Agnew had returns of 29 and 38 yards to deliver good field position.

The Jaguars’ biggest highlight was a wide open Agnew catching a 65-yard TD pass down the left sideline — the longest TD pass of quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s career — where he cradled the ball at the Ravens’ 30 and easily juked safety Geno Stone to reach the end zone. 

Down: Trevor fumbles/concussion

Things couldn’t have gone much worse for Lawrence as the Jaguars’ quarterback lost two fumbles and was put into concussion protocol after the game.

Lawrence lost one fumble on a strip/sack and the other when he was scrambling untouched inside the Baltimore 20, then mysteriously lost control of the ball. Those two turnovers led to 10 Ravens points.

Making things worse, he took a late fourth quarter hit on a scramble before throwing four straight incompletions to end the Jaguars’ last possession.

Lawrence now has six lost fumbles in 2023, one behind NFL leaders Josh Dobbs and Zach Wilson, after leading all NFL quarterbacks with nine last season.

Up: Coming to America

The annual tradition at Jaguars games of dozens of people taking the Oath of Allegiance to become U.S. citizens never gets old. At halftime, 91 were sworn in as America’s newest citizens.

Down: Kicker off target

Jaguars placekicker Brandon McManus has cooled off considerably since making 23 of his first 25 attempts. McManus hit the right upright from 50 yards away, then hooked a 55-yarder wide left that would have tied the game 3-3 in both instances. McManus is now 24 of 30 on the season, but has missed four of his last five attempts.

Down: No consolation

When McManus missed his 50-yard attempt, he went down to the ground after Keaton Mitchell tripped him up. Holder Logan Cooke and McManus complained about not getting a flag.

It didn’t make the no-call any easier to accept when NBC rules analyst Terry McAulay told the audience that Mitchell should have been penalized for running into the kicker, which would have given the Jaguars a first down at the Baltimore 27.

Up: Jenkins thievery

The Jaguars’ defense got its lone turnover when safety Rayshawn Jenkins cut in front of intended receiver Nelson Agholor for his second interception of the season, returning the ball 18 yards to the Jaguars’ 48.

Unfortunately, the Jaguars gave it right back on Lawrence’s first fumble. Jenkins’ other interception this season came against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 6 when he picked off a deep ball from Gardner Minshew and returned it 24 yards to the Indy 39.

Down: Bad sequence

Just when it looked like the Jaguars were going to tie or take the lead, after driving to a first down at the Baltimore 16, disaster struck.

It began with running back Travis Etienne being thrown for a 2-yard loss. That was followed by an Evan Engram false start, a Parker Washington dropped pass, and then Lawrence’s inexcusable fumble when nobody laid a hand on him.

Up: Dewey’s acting job

If the NFL handed out penalties for flopping, safety Andrew Wingard would have earned a flag for drawing a 15-yard unnecessary roughness call against Ravens guard John Simpson.

After a 1-yard Gus Edwards run to the Jacksonville 1, Simpson went up to Wingard and put his helmet in slight contact with his helmet, compelling Wingard to fall backward to the ground in an obvious attempt to trigger a flag.

The strategy worked as Simpson was hit with a 15-yard penalty, but the damage was minimized as Lamar Jackson hit Likely on a 16-yard TD on the next play.

Down: Run game disappearance

The Jaguars' spiraling down running game continued its recent four-game trend that has seen them rush 92 times for 285 yards, a 3.1 average. Travis Etienne has 55 attempts for 167 yards in that span, also a 3.1 average. After the first quarter against the Ravens, there was only token attempts at running the ball against Baltimore's stout, physical defense. The Jaguars had only seven designed runs for 7 yards in the last three quarters, seeing their only success on Lawrence scrambles.

Up: More favorable pass interference

The Jaguars drew their NFL-leading 17th pass interference penalty in the second quarter when Ravens cornerback Brandon Stephens got a flag for interfering with Zay Jones.

That cost Baltimore 8 yards, but the Jaguars got zero points out of it when the first half clock expired after receiver Parker Washington got tackled inbounds at the Ravens’ 4 by safety Marcus Williams.

Down: Ridley regression

With productive Jaguars receiver Christian Kirk on injured reserve, they needed Calvin Ridley to pick up the slack. That didn’t happen as Ridley caught just five passes on 12 targets for 39 yards.

He almost had the highlight catch of the game at the back of the end zone when a ball tipped by safety Kyle Hamilton on the Jaguars’ last possession went into Ridley’s body. He bobbled it momentarily and secured the ball, but it was still ruled out of bounds.

Jaguars coach Doug Pederson threw a challenge flag to get the call overturned, but it stood on review.

Again, NBC's McAulay vehemently disagreed with the referees and replay booth not calling it a touchdown.

As if the Jaguars don't have enough attrition issues at receiver besides Christian Kirk being on IR, now Zay Jones could be sidelined with a hamstring injury that Doug Pederson said looked "bad" after the game.

Down: Prime-time letdown

For the second time in three weeks at home, the Jaguars failed to distinguish themselves when having the NFL stage to themselves.

Two weeks after falling to the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football, the Jaguars lost on Sunday Night Football and dropped to 5-7 all-time on the SNF stage.

It marked the third time in Jaguars history they lost three consecutive games to AFC North opponents (2002, 2008) in the same season.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Besides Agnew's 65-yard TD catch, Jaguars didn't have much to celebrate