Jacksonville 42, Indianapolis 7.

At EverBank. First football in fifteen days. First since Wembley.

It did not go like Wembley.

The first quarter was one drive that mattered. Twelve plays, 98 yards, seven minutes and change, and Thomas at the end of it from twelve yards out. 7-0, and nothing about it said what was coming.

The second quarter said it.

Boerkircher from 31. Tuten on a 39-yard run. Then Lane took a Jones pass back 92 yards the other way, which is the kind of touchdown that arrives when an afternoon has already turned. 28-0 at the half, and the half was the game.

Rodriguez added one from 28 in the third. Tuten caught one from 25. Indianapolis got its touchdown in between, Downs from six, and that was the scoring.

Here is the line worth reading twice: Lawrence threw fourteen passes. All day. Ten of them landed, for 210 yards, three went for touchdowns, and none went to the other team. Fourteen attempts in a 42-point game is a team that never once needed the pass to rescue it.

Because the run was the rescue. Tuten carried sixteen times for 104 yards and scored on the ground and through the air. Rodriguez went for 41 on six carries of his own. The team page headlined it Run to Win, which for once is a slogan the box score agrees with.

And the time of possession line is a comedy. Indianapolis held the ball longer, 30:22 to 29:38.

They held it longer and lost by thirty-five.

Now the thread this column has been pulling all season, the gap between the yardage and the scoreboard. Jacksonville outgained Indianapolis 366 to 243, which is roughly 120 yards of daylight. Against Philadelphia they outgained by nearly 200, 433 to 242, and won by two. At Wembley, Houston gained slightly more and won by three. This was the first Sunday all year the yardage and the final margin told the same story at the same volume.

The record is 5-2.

The Colts are 2-6.

The rest arrives fast. Thursday night, 8:15, at Baltimore, on a short week after a long rest. The schedule gives with one hand.