Q. Jaguars has given up 10 points over the last two weeks. What is working for them?
SHANE STEICHEN: This is a salty group on defense. If you look at them up front, they're very powerful, they're very strong, really good against the run. Walker and Allen are very powerful. Inside they got the rookie linebacker from Utah, who is playing really good football.
Then defensively on the back end for them, they got Campbell, they got Griffin, they got Cisco, and they got Jenkins. I spent some time with Rayshawn in L.A. Good player. Flies around. They're playing really good football. Got a lot of respect for what they're doing defensively right now.
It will be a really tough challenge for us, but one we're looking forward to.
Q. (Question re Doug Pederson being familiar with players.)
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, I think personnel-wise obviously he knows those players really well. We're aware of that. I think offensively as coaches, schematically, each and every week we got to do a hell of a job putting our guys in position to make plays and dressing up the looks.
As you get going in the season, you do have some tendencies, you need to be able to break 'em. Going into week four, still early in the season, but we need to do a good job as coaches of dressing things up.
Q. You always talk about the double positives, turnovers, explosive plays. When you're getting a lot of explosive plays, you're taking some chances. How rare is it that you see a quarterback taking care of the football like Jalen but still getting all those explosive plays?
SHANE STEICHEN: I think that's a great question. Like I said, the double positive is huge for us. When you create explosive plays, you got a chance to score points. With the guys we have on the outside, with DeVonta, A.J., Quez and Dallas and Zach, giving those guys opportunities to go get it.
You saw it against Washington, he gave those guys a chance. A couple of those he put on the money. That big one on the third series down the sidelines to DeVonta was huge, great throw, unbelievable catch. Then he hit A.J. on a go ball. Right before halftime, the two minute, the post, he threw to DeVonta was huge.
That's a lot of trust with those guys. That's the repetition and the process we go through. Just getting work in practice, having the trust in those guys are going to make plays, they're doing it right now.
Q. What stood out most about Jalen's maturation this year?
SHANE STEICHEN: You know what, I think his mental makeup, his DNA, how he goes about his business, it's so impressive, second to none. If he continues on this trend, it's going to be special.
He's doing a hell of a job right now and we got to keep it going.
Q. (No microphone.)
SHANE STEICHEN: I would love to tell you that. We can do that off the record, but it's been good (smiling).
Q. First game that you guys have won without running the ball really well. How big a step is that for the offense, for Jalen?
SHANE STEICHEN: It's huge. Any time you can run the football like we can, throw it like we've been throwing it, it's a great dilemma to have. I've said this before, but each week it can look different. We could run it a whole bunch, throw it a whole bunch. I think the flow of the game dictates how that's going to go. Jalen was hot, kept throwing it, he did a nice job.
Q. DeVonta and A.J. lined up in a slot a few times. Why have they been so effective?
SHANE STEICHEN: I think with anything, like I said earlier, you try to put your guys in position to make plays. Certain things you see on tape, you try to take advantage of as best you can. Some of those things work out well for us. Do they work out every time? No, but it's been good.
Q. Jalen at the end of the first half, when you called two plays, was that the original fourth-down play?
SHANE STEICHEN: No, it was a great play by Jalen. We lost yardage there on the third down. One of the plays we have in our playbook, he got to it. We lose yardage so we get pushed back. He got to a play we've been running. That's just the preparation part of it. That's just the repetitions of talking through it in the meetings, practicing it every single day.
Great calmness by him in that situation to get that play lined up, get it snapped with one second or two seconds, whatever it was, to make that throw to DeVonta. It was special.
Q. (No microphone.)
SHANE STEICHEN: That happened really fast. It was really fast. You lose yardage, get back on it. Boom, he gets it wired up, gets it going.
That's just great growth. I said it last week, it just continues to grow and grow. We just got to continue to stay consistent week in, week out.
Q. Is there any resistance or feedback on your end when the team wants to utilize DeVonta from a returner perspective?
SHANE STEICHEN: No, that's not my area.
Q. (No microphone.)
SHANE STEICHEN: He doesn't leave the building. Like this guy is here all day every day. All he cares about his football. When all you care about is football, you're going to be successful. That's what he does. It's all he thinks about. He never takes days off. I mean, he's always working.
Shoot, on Friday we met after practice this past week. I'm walking through the weight room, 4:00, kind of everyone is gone, he's in there working.
Shoot, last week, I don't even remember what time it was, maybe 8:00 at night. He said, What's up?
You going to go home, get some rest?
I am going in the weight room and getting the bike.
Relentless in everything he does. He's showing up. When you work like, that good things are going to happen.
Q. We talk about his mental growth. Physically what do you see from his release and delivery that's grown from last year?
SHANE STEICHEN: Just the quick decisions he's making. You see it day in, day out. The processing, how he's going through his reads. It's very impressive. We got to continue that. The consistency is big. We talk about it all the time offensively. We got to be consistent in everything we do. He's doing that right now.
Q. Has he done anything physically to kind of quicken his motion?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, I think with anything, just the work and the process that he goes through in the off-season. We talked about it. He did a heck of a job of getting his body right and going through those things.
Yeah, it's coming out quick.
Q. Talk about the decision making. Is that the pre-snap experience, post-snap, the experience?
SHANE STEICHEN: I think it comes with experience. It comes with experience. That's all it is. The more you play, the more you're going to see. I think with anything, you keep getting reps at certain things that he's good at, you give him multiple looks in practice of, Hey, what if this happens? What if this happens? You go through that process. You give him all the different looks. When it comes up on game day, he's like, Oh, yeah, I saw that this week. It's good.
Q. What is a play from Washington that exemplifies that where he was able to problem solve in real-time?
SHANE STEICHEN: That fourth down before half. We just talked about it. That was huge. That's big-time football right there. It really doesn't get any better than that.
To get the guys lined up that quickly, get them in a play we've ran down there, get to it, throw that ball. It's the best.
Q. Was that touchdown thrown to A.J. a check from Jalen?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, so it was called, but he saw a look to where he adjusted one guy's route because he saw the coverage. That, again, was huge. I mean, that's the preparation part. That's watching film like he does day in, day out to get that done.
Great play by A.J. and by him. That was huge. That was third and eight at the nine, we were able to score there. It was a big-time play.
Q. When he makes those adjustments, you're watching from the sideline, do you know what's coming?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, and you get fired up when you see it. When you know what his checking to, the preparation part of it, within the scheme of what he's doing, it's fun to see.
When I saw him give the check, I was like, Oh, yeah, perfect. Everyone knew it. It was like, This is perfect, he's going to score. It was a hell of a job by him.
Q. All those adjustments that Jalen has made, does he remind you of a quarterback you might have had, seen?
SHANE STEICHEN: I don't want to compare him to anybody that I've had. He's his own person. But he's been great. Everything he's been doing right now.
Again, it's still early in the season. We got to be consistent with everything we do on all phases, right, offensive line, receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks. All of us have to do it together.
FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports