Dolphins 20, Jaguars 17
Q. Did you at all walk off the field in disbelief thinking to yourself, man, I just can't believe we lost that game?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: For sure, yeah. It's pretty spot on to my feelings after the game. We just kind of gave it away. There's going to be a lot to learn from week 1. It's early, and we've got a lot of confidence in the group we have. We've got a really good team. But we can't give games away, especially against another really good team, which is going to be every week.
Yeah, definitely disappointing.
Q. The turnover in the end zone seemed like a momentum turn --
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Is there a question with that? Do I feel that way? I mean, obviously turnovers are killers, especially down in the red zone, but I thought Travis did a good job of bouncing back and keeping his head in the game. Stuff like that is going to happen at times, and you preach taking care of the ball, not doing it, but I've been in that same position, and that's what I told Travis. I've done it before, too. No one is pointing fingers.
We still had plenty of time in the game, and we have to be able to handle the adversity and go score in the next series, and that's the only good drive we had the whole half. It's on all of us when something like that does happen. We've got to gather around and make the next play, and we didn't do that. It seemed like we couldn't get any rhythm going the second half besides on that drive.
Yeah, obviously that's going to be the story, and of course that's important. That's something that you don't want to do and you can't do, but we had plenty of opportunities after that, and we couldn't get anything going. I took a bad sack on 2nd down on our last drive that we got that put us in a tough 3rd down. There's plays all over the place that we've got to make and that we can't -- it's more mistakes, though, than the plays you've got to make. It's more don't beat yourself, and I think you look at the whole game and that was where we struggled.
We made a lot of great plays, and our defense did a good job of holding a really explosive offense, and offensively we didn't score any points in the second half. That's something that can't happen if we're going to win a lot of games, which is the plan.
Q. You said last season felt hard a little bit towards the end. Any thinking of here we go again, or --
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Not really. You know, it's just kind of -- it's what happened today, and don't make it more than it is. We know we have to improve and get better. The reality is, though, it's week 1. We're 0-1. Not the start we wanted. But even if we're 1-0, we still have 16 more games that we've got to do something with.
The mindset doesn't change for us. Obviously there's some sense of urgency of we've got to clean some things up. It was pretty sloppy at times.
I thought in the first half we played really well, complementary, moved the ball, even after a rough start on that first drive offensively we settled in, but for whatever reason there was a disconnect in the second half, and we didn't seem to get things going. We were behind the chains, and they took back the momentum. We've got to be able to play with the ebbs and flows and make those plays when we need them, and I take that on myself, too. I've got to make a play in that last drive that we ended up having because you're sitting there and you don't get the ball back and you feel like you blew your shot.
For me, I'm frustrated with that, as well.
Q. From your vantage point, what went wrong in the second half? You touched on some things, but what did you see out there? What happened with the offense?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, just some untimely errors, a couple -- early on the first couple drives, I don't know if we had two or three three-and-outs, but we started off really slow, and just getting behind the chain early, whether it was a penalty or a stuffed run or an incompletion on 1st down. They were all kind of something different, but just didn't seem to get the drives going, and then in those 2nd and longs we didn't get anything positive in those, either, so then you're in 3rd and long. That's going to happen occasionally and you've got to convert, but you can't rely on doing that time and time again. Defenses in this league are too good and you've got to stay ahead of the chains, and we didn't do that early, and then whether we put a good drive together, seemed like we were rolling, great tempo, and then same thing, had the turnover, and then after that it went right back to just kind of stagnant, weren't able to move the ball. We've got to be able to put drives together consistently like we did in the first half.
We'll have to look at it and see exactly what it was. I don't have all the answers right now. But I definitely know that we had our opportunities, and we really just didn't take advantage of them.
Q. What did you think of Brian --
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Played great.
Q. The two plays, the PI and also the touchdown.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: PI, I was pissed because I missed the throw, left it a little short, and he did a great job. Safety ended up jumping down and took Christian away. So we had the shot over the top. He did a great job.
The one at the line of scrimmage, I think it was press, too, with Jaylen, so he did a great job winning, and I underthrew it a little bit. Fortunately we got the PI, but he did a great job going and winning, and then the one in the end zone, just -- that's just us and trusting it and me trusting he's going to get there and him trusting I'm going to put it in the right spot, and you see he made a great play, so it was awesome.
Q. The 4th and 1 to Travis, was there any audible at the line of scrimmage on that, or was that an intentional call to run Travis wide?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: That was a call. Obviously it wasn't to go there and then back across. He's playing ball and trying to make a play, and they did a good job -- I'd have to watch it to know exactly what happened, but it seemed like Jalen Ramsey did a great job of setting the edge there and wasn't what we thought was going to happen, obviously. We had a plan for that play, and that really didn't play out how we thought it would. Got to give credit to them. They made some big defensive stops at the end of that game. But we put ourselves in some tough spots. You'd love to go get it on 3rd down and not be in that 4th down situation where you've got to go get that. A lot of stuff to learn from, and yeah.
Q. Is it a missed opportunity right now? You're going to make put the game away. How quick does that change do you think?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It changes quick. This game, this league, it's a game of momentum, and you have to be able to -- if you're on the good side of the momentum flip, you've got to be able to take it and run with it, which they did today, and if you're on the opposite side, you've got to be able to weather the storm and settle back in as quickly as possible.
Seemed like we weren't able to do that. The next time we got the ball, like I said, real stagnant and just weren't getting many positives, and then had some bad sacks there at the end on me. I thought protection was really great all day, and those guys did a good job of getting me time. A couple of those were either coverage sacks or me trying to scramble into one.
Yeah, it's just frustrating. You feel the momentum flip and you've got to be able to settle in. Playing on the road, obviously that's a huge thing is don't let the momentum take the game away from you, and I felt like we didn't settle back in, and they did. Yeah, you've got to be able to recover from those things. It's football. It's the NFL. You're not going to blow many teams out. We had the opportunity coming out of halftime to go put some points on the board and really make it a 24-7 game. We didn't do that, and that would have been a big opportunity for us.
But all these games are going to come down to one score, so you've got to be able to win it at the end.
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