Seahawks 31^ , Jaguars 7
TYLER LOCKETT: Let's do this.
Q. Just how nice does it feel to get a win after this little the stretch you've been on? It's something you guys don't do very often.
TYLER LOCKETT: Yeah, man, it feels great to finally be able to get a win. If that was something that wasn't going to be able to happen, was going to be a long bye week.
So just the fact that we got things done, we got to go out there, we were able to get the win, feels good being able to head into a bye week so that way we can reset and really get our minds focused.
Q. Pete said there has been a rallying cry around Geno in the last few weeks. What has been the rallying cry and why is he someone so easy to rally around?
TYLER LOCKETT: Yeah, it's kind of like you heard. He's been around and played a whole bunch of football. It's not like he's a rookie that's coming in and trying to figure everything out. We know what he's capable of and all that will stuff.
I think the biggest thing is just people can put so many expectations on you, especially when Russ has been here for 10 straight years. For us being able to rally behind Geno and really be able to tell him, We know what you can do, what type of player you are. You've shown it your whole entire career. We just want you to be you.
I think that's exactly what you heard him talking about. He knows who he is. He's always going to be himself. For us as players, coaches, like or whoever, we have to be able to learn how to play through what people do best.
I think that's what we were able to do today.
Q. Did you think you scored on this first touchdown down there?
TYLER LOCKETT: I knew it was close. I felt like if he gave me a touchdown, which he did, if they reviewed it it would've been inclusive. But somehow ended up changing it, and, Hey, Geno, scored, so...
Q. Geno talked about this, the game plan was going to be a little bit different with the conditions being better. Did you guys feel going into the game, I mean, good to get the passing game going the way did you early?
TYLER LOCKETT: Yeah, but I mean, you never know what to expect when you're going into a game because all it takes is one play and it could change everything. We could run the ball, and if it's something there that we see, we'll run the ball all day.
And so you just kind of got to take what they give you. We saw that each and every week, but it's true. Some teams will make you run the ball and say, we want you to run the ball the whole game to beat us. Some teams will say, we want he to pass it, and some teams let you do both.
So you kind of got to be able to scout throughout the game and understand what it is they're trying to do, but also being able to understand like the game plan that we had coming in and making sure that we're in our right spots and that we're allowing Geno to have enough time to see the field, the coverages, with the play calls coming in so we're not getting delay of games.
All of that helping us being successful on offense.
Q. Your first 11 plays were runs. Was that the game plan or what the Jaguars were giving you?
TYLER LOCKETT: Those runs? I had no clue, but, I mean, we trying to make sure we can be a balanced team. That's the biggest thing that I can say. We don't want to be too heavy with the pass game, too heavy with the run game.
I think when you're a balanced team that's when we're more dominant. That's when it's hard for teams to figure out what we want to do. You hear Pete talk about it all the time, but I think at the end of the day that's really what it is. When you're balanced teams don't really know what to do. We know what defenses are going to play, we know what coverages they're going to do to try to stop us once we learn how to be great at what it is we're trying to do.
I think it was good to keep trying to running the ball regardless of the run defenses that we play, the teams that are great at it. We are going to keep on doing what we do, and pretty soon that's going to open up everything in the passing game.
Q. From an individual perspective you only had four catches the last two games, the first three starts for Geno; 12 today. What really clicked for you, the relationship with your quarterback?
TYLER LOCKETT: I mean, that's for every receiver, man. When you go back to the drawing board and you're in those weeks and you're grinding, it's really about learning who your quarterback is, the way he sees the game, the way he throws the game, the way that he throws the ball, so that way you can make your adjustment and work on a lot of those things.
Throughout the first two weeks there were things that we missed and stuff like that, but we'll go back in the practice and have those conversations. I'll see what it is he's thinking, he'll listen to me and see what I'm thinking, and then we are able to play off each other.
So sometimes it takes a few weeks to be able get that going, but that's what practice is for. If you don't of that combination, it's hard it develop that kind of chemistry, especially in the game of football that we play. So the more that Geno understands my game, the more I understand his game, it helps us to be able to find a middle ground in how we can make each other successful.
And that's not something just for me that. That's something for every person on the team that's in a skill position, is that when you have people at quarterback, you have to be able to learn how to be able to adapt to what they do, what they're great at.
You also have to learn how to not let the game that you play go. You got to learn how to balance your game and how they play and try to see if you can make it match.
Q. As a guy who has returned some big kickoffs in your career, what did you think the Travis Homer's?
TYLER LOCKETT: I was shocked. I was shocked. I just knew they were going to kick it to me after we called the time out, so I was ready. Then all of a sudden they kicked it to him again, and instead of him deciding to go down, he was like, you know, I'm going to go ahead and score and head into the bye week.
That was a dope play. That was a dope play. I think the last time I seen somebody do that was AJ Brown maybe last year or the year before. But, hey, the fact that you're able to focus on catching it, then making a person miss while they have nobody in front of them to block, got to give them the credit.
Q. What has Russ been like behind the scenes the last few weeks?
TYLER LOCKETT: I think he's done an amazing job just being able to just progress through everything that he's been having to go through. We all know what injuries is like. When we come to the league they say it's 100% everybody is pretty much going to deal with injuries.
So you don't know what you're going to deal with, but all you can do is figure out how you're going to deal with it. I think mentally he's one when it comes to that battle every single day, he always talks about winning, and it's about being able to win in every situation and in every circumstance.
Sometimes it looks bad and sometimes it looks good, but when we're out there doing two-minutes and he's running the show and all that, it's about figuring out how to win and just finding a way. So even though the injury it's the same thing. It might not be on field at the moment, but it's the same thing.
And it takes you to a different place. Speaking from experience. I've been hurt, I've had to sit out, I've gone through an off season and all that stuff. And so seeing a game without seeing the game without being in a game can also do a lot of wonder for you too as a person and a player when you come back.
Bye week has officially started.
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