Miami - 22, Baltimore - 10
Q. They were blitzing a lot of defensive backs.
LAMAR JACKSON: Yeah.
Q. What was the biggest problem to overcome that?
LAMAR JACKSON: You know, it was cover zero the majority of the whole game. They just got hot each and every time. I was dropping back, just couldn't do nothing about that.
Q. Is that something you've never seen before?
LAMAR JACKSON: Nah. We seen it before. We was practicing it the whole week. We just got to do a better job, do a better job facing that. Get a handle. I feel we'll be good. Dolphins played a great game.
Q. What do you mean they had a guy hot?
LAMAR JACKSON: Nah, I was hot. There was a guy free every time I was dropping back. I was hot.
Q. Lamar, you know the NFL is a copycat league. So one thing has success, you're going to see it every week. What's the key going forward to beat that defense?
LAMAR JACKSON: Play our game. You know, do us. Do our thing. We'll be good. There was some plays we left on the field, some things we left on the field. Little mishaps. Just be us. That's it.
Q. They showed a clip of you kind of yelling on the sidelines. How frustrating was it that you kind of -- you know, when you were stalling so much offensively?
LAMAR JACKSON: I was hot. Like, we wasn't scoring no points. We were putting our defense out there. They played a great game. Dolphins had their little plays -- they had their great plays on offense. But I feel our defense played lights out, man.
We just wasn't getting it done on offense. So that's why I was mad. Because if you was on offense, you would be mad, too. Like, you know? They played a great game, man.
Q. Lamar, was there something just chemistry-wise that was not happening? You know, there was a lot of three and outs, a lot of punts for you guys. Was there something --
LAMAR JACKSON: No, I wouldn't say it was the chemistry. They just had a great day. We couldn't find ourselves.
Like I said before, our defense started getting out there, stopping them, three points, stopping them in the red zone, three points. We're just not capitalizing. We got to, you know, watch film, get back and regroup.
Q. You guys were having a lot of quick throws outside.
LAMAR JACKSON: Cover zero. Cover zero.
Q. Right. Was it just, I need to get the ball out of my hands as fast as possible kind of -- was that the approach?
LAMAR JACKSON: Yeah, around -- like I said, they had the guy off the edge coming in hot. So I tried to get the ball out to the receivers, make a play.
You know, sometimes it was tipped passes, you know, the ball was getting batted down. Just played a great game. They played a great game.
Q. The last time you were here, you had an incredible game against them. Some players on the team -- on their team are still there. Were they kind of talking back and forth to you, kind of letting you know that's not going to happen this time around?
LAMAR JACKSON: Nah, they -- nah, nah, nah. There wasn't none of that. They didn't say none of that. You know, they going to talk trash. It's football. They going to talk trash. But, nah, it wasn't none of that. It was respect.
Q. Lamar, did you talk to Sammy about what might have happened on that first pass when he was in the back of the end zone and he might have lost the ball as it was coming down?
LAMAR JACKSON: Actually, you know, I was hot. I was hot. And I had to throw the ball in the air and give them a chance.
But, you know, if he's not sitting with the back in the backfield, it would probably be hard to try to track the ball, if I'm just throwing it up trying to make something happen. So, nah, I didn't talk to him about it.
Q. Coach took responsibility for this loss. But it seemed you guys knew what they were going to do, that you were prepared to see what you saw.
LAMAR JACKSON: Yeah.
Q. So was it as much execution as, you know, being surprised by them or anything?
LAMAR JACKSON: Like I said, you know, we just got to do a better job out there. Things like I said before, things we left out on the field. The mishaps. We got to get that fixed, regroup, get ready for Chicago.
Q. Lamar, in the past, you guys generally start pretty fast.
LAMAR JACKSON: Right.
Q. This season --
LAMAR JACKSON: Slow. Every week. It's ridiculous. I don't understand it either. We just got to do a better job at that. You know, hit the ground running, like we supposed to do. And that starts by staying calm and just doing us. Don't put nothing extra on our minds.
Q. Do you have to game plan to your team -- you know, even though it was a disappointing loss, you are six and three. Did you try to send that message, as well?
LAMAR JACKSON: Our guys good. We got grown men here. Like I always say, it's a brotherhood. We not pointing no fingers in here. Not never. We going to get right. Got to. Trust.
Q. Lamar, do you think teams are blitzing you more than they have in the past, especially on those third-and-longs?
LAMAR JACKSON: Say again.
Q. Do you think teams are blitzing you more than they have on third-and-longs?
LAMAR JACKSON: I don't know. I feel like I got blitzed a lot on my rookie season. I don't know. We'll get it fixed, though. We got a lot of games left in the season. We're good.
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