JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It was another rough day for Jacksonville Jaguars rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

This time, it was against the New England Patriots, where he completed 17 of 27 passes for 193 yards and a touchdown with three interceptions in the embarrassing 50-10 loss at Gillette Stadium.

One of the interceptions was a pass that should have been caught but bounced off running back Ryquell Armstead’s hands -- but the other two were bad decisions and bad throws.

It was Lawrence's second three-interception game, and he leads the NFL in interceptions (17) to go along with just 10 touchdown passes.

On the other side of the field was Patriots rookie quarterback Mac Jones: 22-of-30, 227 yards, 3 touchdowns, 0 interceptions and a seat on the bench early in the fourth quarter with the game well in hand.

The contrast in the two players was pretty clear: Lawrence, the first overall pick, continues to struggle, while Jones, whom the Patriots took 15th, is a candidate to be the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year.

The reason for their opposite fortunes is also pretty clear: Jones landed with a good organization, and Lawrence did not.

This is not meant to diminish anything Jones has done on the field, but he ended up with coach Bill Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. The Patriots franchise has won six Super Bowls, has an owner in Robert Kraft who knows how to maintain organizational stability and has a culture (the Patriot Way) that doesn’t tolerate losing. It would have been shocking if Jones hadn’t had success in 2021.

Lawrence? He got coach Urban Meyer, owner Shad Khan, offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and a franchise that has been the laughingstock of the NFL for the past 10 years.

Lawrence was expected to win games, fix the culture and start the Jaguars on the road to becoming one of the league’s top franchises – but it turned out the Jaguars essentially wanted him to do it by himself because they certainly didn’t give him much help.

With all of that working against him, it’s no surprise that Lawrence hasn’t played very well.

“I say this for young quarterbacks: It’s almost impossible to develop and win,” ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky said. “You’re asking these young quarterbacks to develop, which means he’s got to break his old habits from college, and then you’ve got to start to build new NFL habits. [Teams then ask] ‘Hey dude, on Sunday you need to find a way for us to win the game.’

“Those two things are so contrary -- and it’s really, really hard unless everything around you is so ideal.”

Which it most certainly is not in Jacksonville.

Over the past 10 years, the Jaguars:

• Have lost at least 10 games in nine of those seasons, with the lone exception a 10-6 record and a surprise run to the AFC Championship Game in 2017.

• Gone through three general managers and four head coaches.

• Had just one first-round pick sign a second contract with the team.

• Had four of those first-round picks either get cut, traded or suspended indefinitely before reaching the end of their rookie contract.

And just when it didn’t appear things could get much worse: the 2021 season happened.

Khan, who purchased the team in November 2011 and took over in 2012, hired Meyer to turn things around. Eleven months and a long list of drama and distractions later – including a report that Meyer kicked former kicker Josh Lambo in the leg, another report that he called his assistant coaches losers, and two viral videos that showed him behaving inappropriately in a restaurant/bar with a woman who wasn’t his wife – Meyer was fired.

General manager Trent Baalke, who came to Jacksonville in 2020 as the director of player personnel, remains in charge despite playing a large role in building a roster that has gone 3-29.

Fans are so upset at that decision that they’ve rallied together on social media and changed their avatars to a clown with a mustache (Khan has a mustache) and constantly bombard the team’s official Twitter account and internet shows with a mustachioed clown emoji.

This is the muddy river in which Lawrence must swim every week. Does that excuse some of the poor decisions and throws he’s made on the field? Absolutely not, but it does explain why he’s not flourishing the way many expected.

Yet Lawrence -- somehow -- remains optimistic that things will change.

“I haven't been around the NFL long, so I really still don't even know how everything completely works, but I'm just trusting who is in leadership positions,” Lawrence said. “At the end of the day, my job is to be a quarterback and to lead this team, and I can only do so much, and that's what I'm going to do. Other than that, I'm just going to put my head down, go to work, and I have faith that we are going to come out in a way better spot next year than we are right now.

“I 100% believe that, and I'm just looking forward to doing that because a lot of these guys deserve it.”

Until the Jaguars (2-14) make sweeping organizational changes, get the right people in place and execute a plan to build around Lawrence, things won’t change. Good organizations thrive. Bad ones don’t, and right now -- and for much of the past decade -- the Jaguars have been a bad organization.