Conspiracy-Loving NFL Fans Think Trevor Lawrence Admitted Games Are Rigged

If you’re like me, once the Los Angeles Chargers took a 27-0 lead over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, you decided to turn it off and go find something else to do.

After all, it was Trevor Lawrence’s first playoff game in the NFL and he was truly stinking up the joint, throwing four interceptions in the first half alone.

I mean, the Chargers kicked a field goal in the second quarter after a punt bounced off a Jaguars player’s helmet, for cripes sake.

As ESPN pointed out, the last time a team turned the ball over five times in the first half of a playoff game was in the 1999 divisional playoffs. That team was the Miami Dolphins, and they lost that game 62-7 (against the Jaguars, go figure).

In fact, no quarterback in the Super Bowl era has ever thrown three picks in the first quarter of a playoff game, until Saturday.

So yeah, I thought the game was over. Big mistake.

What I didn’t realize was that the whole game was just following the script the NFL had laid out to generate the kind of buzz that only an improbable 27 point comeback can cause.

At least that is what the NFL conspiracy theorists (of which there are many) would want me to believe.

The most surprising thing about that is that the these latest claims that the NFL is scripted aren’t being spearhead by the world’s number one sports conspiracy theorist, former NFL running back Larry Johnson.

Instead, it’s NFL fans on social media who believe that Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence admitted in a post-game interview that the game was scripted.

Why do they believe such an outlandish thing? Because Trevor Lawrence said, “You couldn’t write a crazier script.”

Of course, that’s just a saying. He didn’t really mean that the game was scripted. Right?

“Trevor Lawrence said right there, ‘Could not scripted any better.’ It’s right there in everyone’s face,” someone else tweeted.

“NFL quarterback Trevor Lawrence admitting the NFL is scripted after coming back from 27 points down. Not even hiding it anymore….” another fan wrote.

https://twitter.com/MicahSavedMe/status/1614472651552047104

“Someone tell the NFL script writers that the ‘Trevor Lawrence sucks first half and clutched the second’ trope is overdone,” another fan commented.