Ravens are down to their No. 3 quarterback with the AFC South-leading Jaguars in town

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Joe Fagnano's NFL career is beginning with two games in five days. There's not a lot of time to stop and think.

“Ask my wife. We go through walkthroughs in the living room. She’s reading plays and stuff,” Baltimore's latest starting quarterback said. “She probably knows the playbook just as well as us at this point.”

Fagnano was thrust into duty last weekend, when Baltimore had to turn to its No. 3 quarterback because of injuries to Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley. Now he's set to start Thursday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars, as the Ravens try to prevent their season from careening off the rails. They are finalizing a trade with the Arizona Cardinals for veteran QB Jacoby Brissett, a person with knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been completed.

Jacksonville has a three-game lead in the AFC South and is suddenly a huge favorite despite being on the road on a short week. This is a game that probably seemed daunting for the Jaguars when it first appeared on the schedule, but a lot has changed.

“We do a great job of not underestimating or overestimating the opponent if something’s going to happen — of not panicking, doing our job,” Jaguars defensive end Josh Hines-Allen said. "I think this is another case for that.”

Jacksonville already has benefited from weakened opponents this season. The Jaguars beat Philadelphia last month in London with the Eagles missing running back Saquon Barkley, leading receiver DeVonta Smith and pass rusher Jonathan Greenard — and days after right tackle Lane Johnson abruptly retired and the team traded center Cam Jurgens to Baltimore.

They thumped Indianapolis last week after the Colts traded two of their best players, defensive tackle DeForest Buckner and guard Quenton Nelson.

One question is what type of crowd the Jaguars will be up against this week. It would be understandable if Baltimore fans were a little demoralized, with Jackson expected to go on injured reserve and Huntley possibly headed there as well. Even before Jackson left last weekend's game at Buffalo with a thumb injury, the Ravens had lost five of their last six home games.

“Hopefully the fan base comes out there and gives us an opportunity, gives us a little grace. I think all of us wanted to be better than 4-4 at this point in time in the season,” defensive lineman Calais Campbell said. “We win a couple games, and we’re still in it. Who knows what happens with guys coming back and all that stuff? I’m still holding out hope.”

Besides Fagnano, who has been dealing with an ankle injury himself, the Ravens are down to Kedon Slovis and Austin Reed at quarterback. Brissett likely would start against the Chargers on Nov. 15.

Jacksonville (5-2) at Baltimore (4-4).

When/where to watch: Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EST, Prime Video.

Latest odds: Jaguars by 10.

Against the spread: Jaguars 4-3; Ravens 2-6.

Last week: Jaguars beat the Colts 42-7; Ravens lost to the Bills 36-10.

Last meeting: Ravens beat the Jaguars 23-7 on Dec. 17, 2023, in Jacksonville.

Series record: Jaguars lead 13-11.

Baltimore's offensive line against Jacksonville's defensive front. The Ravens' running game has struggled without Jackson, and the offensive line already has had to go through many injury-related changes since the start of the season. Baltimore surely would like to lean on Derrick Henry to make things easier for Fagnano. The Jaguars will try to prevent that.

— The Jaguars are playing their first Thursday night game since winning at New Orleans in 2023.

— The Jags are 14-4 against the AFC under second-year coach Liam Coen. They have outscored AFC opponents 553-320 in those games, a plus-233 scoring margin that’s the best in the NFL by 91 points.

— Last week the Jags became the first team since Kansas City in 2004 to have two TD passes of 25 or more yards and two rushing TDs of 25 or more yards in the same game.

— Jacksonville’s 10 scores of 25-plus yards in 2026 lead the NFL.

— Baltimore's Zay Flowers has 311 yards after the catch this season, trailing only Jaylen Warren (346) and Puka Nacua (323).

— Henry is ninth on the NFL's career rushing list with 13,650 yards. He is 12 yards behind Jerome Bettis and 34 behind LaDainian Tomlinson.

— Ravens LB Roquan Smith is the only player in the league with at least 60 tackles, multiple sacks and multiple forced fumbles this season.

— One stat Baltimore hopes won't be relevant Thursday: The Ravens have not been shut out since 2002. Their 395-game streak of scoring at least one point trails only San Francisco's run of 420 from 1977-2004 as the longest in NFL history.

AP Sports Writer Mark Long in Jacksonville, Florida, and AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida, contributed to this report.

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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence passes over Indianapolis Colts linebacker Caden Curry during the second half of an NFL football game in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Fagnano (12) passes against the Buffalo Bills in the first half during an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Alan Jones, the Australian who became the first driver to win a Formula 1 title with Williams, has died, his family said Thursday.

Jones, the 1980 Formula 1 world champion, died after a brief illness. He was 80.

“We are extremely saddened to announce the passing of our beloved Alan,” his wife, Amanda, said in a statement. “He will be dearly missed and fondly remembered by those closest to him, as well as the many fans whose support he was always grateful for.”

Jones, an Australian Motorsport Hall of Fame and Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee born in Melbourne in 1946, was the second and so far last Australian to win the Formula 1 world title, the highlight of an F1 career that featured 12 victories and 24 podium finishes.

He followed Jack Brabham, won three F1 world drivers' titles for Australia.

Jones was known for his aggressive driving style and abrasive personality. “If someone passed me, I took it personally,” he said on a 2019 podcast.

In an era when deaths and serious injuries weren’t uncommon in F1, Jones started each year by checking his life insurance and making travel plans for his wife to return to Australia if he was killed, but said he never personally feared death in a race.

“I never worried about the dangers,” he said. “I worried about the money.”

Jones found the right team with Williams, whose founder Frank Williams was adept at defusing his temper and keeping him focused. His driving style and physical strength were a good fit for the team’s FW07 car.

Jones didn’t seek to make friends with other F1 drivers.

“They were just things that had to be passed,” was how he described his rivals in the 2019 podcast “Beyond The Grid.” After one public feud with his Argentinian teammate Carlos Reutemann, Jones needed a police escort for his next race in Argentina.

Disappointed that Ferrari had gone back on what Jones later claimed was a signed contract for him to drive for the Italian team in 1977, he bore a grudge.

“When I used to drive down pit lane and they were working on their cars, I’d give them a little wave,” he said later. “Now, I might have only used one finger, but it was a wave!”

Jones grew up in Australia as the son of a successful amateur racing driver and moved to Britain in the late 1960s, funding his journey toward F1 by buying and selling old vans.

Jones drove for a series of small teams when he arrived in F1. His first win for Shadow in 1977 from 14th on the grid came as such a surprise to organizers of the Austrian Grand Prix that they hadn’t prepared a recording of the Australian national anthem for the podium ceremony. Jones later recalled that “a drunk played ‘Happy Birthday’ on a trumpet” instead.

After an unsuccessful title defense in 1981 — Jones believed he’d driven better than before but the car let him down — he headed back to Australia and bought a farm. Homesickness and a dislike for the British weather played a part.

Still, Jones was soon bored of his new life as a cattle breeder and made a one-off F1 comeback in 1983 with Arrows before returning with Haas — no relation to the current F1 team of the same name. The car wasn’t competitive and Jones had a best finish of fourth before leaving F1 again in 1986.

Away from F1, Jones won the 1978 Can-Am sportscar title and was third in his only IndyCar race in 1983. Jones kept racing in Australia’s V8 Supercars series until 2002, when he was 55.

Jones stayed around the paddock as a TV commentator and race steward but was critical of modern drivers, who he called “prima donnas” and “too corporate.”

Original team owner Frank Williams, who died in November 2021, was fond of Jones and once described him as “a man’s man” who was “great fun to be with.”

“He never needed propping up mentally, because he was a very determined and bullish character,” Williams said. “He didn’t need any babysitting or hand-holding and that’s the way it should be. It shouldn’t be necessary for me to ask a driver if he is happy, or if he needs his underwear changed.”

AP Sports Writer Dennis Passa contributed from Brisbane, Australia.

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FILE -Australian F1 driver Alan Jones, sits in the pit complex before the Qualifying round of the GP Masters at Kylami race circuit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

FILE -Three legends of Formula One racing and all ex world champions from left Alan Jones, Australia, Stirling Moss, Great Britain and Jack Brabham, Australia in discussion at the track in Melbourne, March 7, 1996.(AP Photo/Steve Holland, File)