Which Team Is the X-Factor in the AFC South in 2025?

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00:00the houston texans booked as the favorite plus 110 in the two years that domico ryans has been

00:05the head coach in h town and cj stroud has been the starting quarterback the texans have won the

00:11afc south divisional crown each of those two in fact houston has won this division six of the

00:18previous 10 years the team that won it prior to the texans winning it twice in a row that was the

00:24upside of trevor lawrence of the jacksonville jaguars who enters year number five of his nfl

00:29career but under a first year head coach in liam cohen whose first task is kind of reinvigorating

00:35that career of t law the colts an interesting team this offseason that we'll discuss in the titans

00:42enter the second year of the brian callahan tenure there in nashville of course a lot to prove now

00:49with a new quarterback in cam ward the first overall pick this past april in the 2025 nfl drought drs if

00:57you were to use one word to describe the afc south taking a look at these four squads and these four

01:03divisional prices what would that one word be trevor lawrence that's the single word trevor lawrence if

01:09trevor lawrence plays well this year proper now trevor we'll go trevor on that one but that is my

01:15thought process here if he's good ben you know what happens in this scenario the jacksonville jaguars win

01:21this division as they should because i look at this and say liam cohen hey lynch see what i did

01:26with baker may feel like i am going to put you in positions that we are going to succeed and you might

01:30say well how can you do that now moving to jacksonville well look at the blueprint that you

01:34had in tampa bay let me load you up at wide receiver where these guys are going to be running

01:38wide open routes that can make dynamic plays like mike evans used to do with chris godwin and say now i'm

01:43going to replace that with justin with excuse me brian thomas jr and also travis hunter and then you have

01:48diami brown who's electric on the outside who could be a great third counter piece and then you have

01:52travis atia in the backfield still bigsby you draft by show tootin here from college football from

01:56virginia tech to come in as well i look at this and say to myself like jacksonville's upside is so big

02:02to me but also understand this this is a big like trevor lawrence already made it in the nfl not because

02:08he's had unbelievable success he got that monster second contract he's living the good life but i gotta tell

02:13you if he's not successful this year i oh he's still young no no no there's no more excuses this

02:19is a winnable division with unbelievable talent and a coach that should put you in the right position

02:25to succeed there are no more excuses in jacksonville that's the team i want to watch where

02:30their upside is better than any team in that division which includes the texans

02:35and then in the right position it is a team of people in that division which is a unit of