Jacksonville Jaguars 21, Houston Texans 37
Q. What’s your level of disappointment in this game and what went wrong defensively? Why was it so difficult to keep him (Tyrod Taylor) in that pocket?
JOSH ALLEN: You know, it's just -- in those situations, it was just -- we've got to make the play. It's just that simple. We all got a job to do. Like I preached before. And once those situations come, we've just got to make those plays. So it's not just a team or defensive scheme-wise. You know what I'm saying.
We got our name called. And if that's the jersey that comes up, we've got to make the play. We missed a lot of those opportunities, but we're going to come back next week, and we're going to double up.
Q. You put a lot of work into this week for preparation. Is there a little sense of ‘whoa’ when you look at the scoreboard and it’s 27-7 at halftime?
JOSH ALLEN: It's football. I'm going to do my job, you know what I'm saying. Stuff happens, you know what I mean. And in a situation like that, I'm not going to say we lost the game. I didn't see -- some crazy stuff happened.
So I'm going to do what I've got to do. I'm going to go out there and do my job as a grown man, as a captain, as a player on this team. I'm going to do my job. And I hope the guy next to me and the guys behind me do their job. So we just have to come out there and we've just got to get better next week.
Q. How demoralizing was that last long touchdown before the first half? Does that take a lot of the wind out of your sails?
JOSH ALLEN: They had a lot of -- like I said, it was -- when the play's called, it's going to go to one person to make a play, you know what I'm saying.
They have more opportunities to go make that play, like I said. You know, he had his number called. Got to make that play. So definitely seeing that. Definitely hurts. But it's football. What are we going to do?
There were a couple -- we had a couple plays when they had long games, but defensively we stayed strong. We didn't give up touchdown's down all the time. We've got to correct those turnovers man. We've got to get the ball.
That's one thing we have to really harp on is getting the ball. We didn't have that many opportunities to get the ball, but we've got to go get them. And that's up to me. That's up to all the other defensive players. We've got to get the ball. Got to. Got to.
Q. How would you describe the mood of the team afterwards? All of the bonding that was created in preseason, is it still going to hold up week after week when you have a loss like this?
JOSH ALLEN: It's one game. This is a long season. We all healthy. We all came out 100 percent, you know. We got bumps and bruises. That's what we need to come back on. We need to come back 100 percent for next week.
It's a long season, man. And it's football. And we're going to come back next week. We're going to work on the things we need to work on and we're going to come back swinging. And that's all we can do. We're still going to ball. We're still going to kick it. We're still going to be us.
By the end of the day, ain't nothing going to change. We're still going to go fly around that ball, stop the run. You know, jobs that we have to do. And just come back.
This didn't define us. Because we lost. Like, this was -- this is a bad feeling. Like, I'm not going to say that it wasn't a bad feeling, although we're going to get better next week.
It sucked. And we've got to get better. But for the team and for us as a team as a whole, we're going to gel back, you know what I'm saying. We are all grown men. We're going to look at this. We're going to get the corrections. And we're going to move on. That's all we can do. And that's what we've got to do. That's what we are going to do.
Q. How hard was it to prepare for three running backs coming in? And then to see they solely rely on a guy like Mark Ingram?
JOSH ALLEN: In the first half, we stopped the run. They had -- you know what I'm saying. They was running the ball, but it wasn't 30 yards a carry. It wasn't those big, explosive runs. Yeah. He had one or two.
So as a run defense, I feel like, yeah, we can get better -- especially toward later in the game -- of doing a better job stopping the run. But overall, I think we did a good job, especially for them to have three backs or whoever they got. The MO they're trying to establish this year.
I feel like we did a good job. And they kept them fresh. They kept them in. But we've just got to hit them a little harder and get the ball back.
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