Browns 23, Jaguars 13
Q. Were you wanting to get maybe one more series?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Always, yeah. You always want to -- that's the tough thing I'm learning about preseason. You've got to take care of yourself and the team and make your plays count when you're in there because you just aren't going to get as many as you'd like sometimes, just depending on how the game is going. I thought we were starting to kind of settle in there a little bit. I thought the guys that came in there in the game did great. Cleveland did a good job, big zone team. They matched us pretty well.
But no, I mean, I feel like the first time out there I felt comfortable, felt poised. Obviously the first play is not kind of what you want for the first play, but after that I thought we did a good job. We communicated well up front. They did a really good job with protection, at least one of those sacks was on me for sure, just holding the ball too long. That's something I'll work on and just maneuvering in the pocket is something I've always got to work on.
Other than that, I missed an easy one to Marvin, a little quick out that I wish I would have hit, but other than that I felt good out there. I thought we were seeing it all on the same page and there's obviously things to clean up, but I thought it was a pretty good day.
Q. Did you feel your comfort level grow as the drives went off?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: For sure, yeah, and that's like anything. The first play, especially the first game here in the NFL you're a little bit nervous, but after that you're just playing ball. Definitely felt that setting in. Was feeling more comfortable, and like in these preseason game it's just hard to get in a rhythm the way we're doing it because we're just trying to get looks, and a lot of people playing and figure it out. I think we're doing a good job.
Obviously want to win the game. That's the goal. Want to get better from that standpoint. But no, I thought the guys, we played the whole way through, and I think everybody saw that.
Q. After that second series you spent a lot of time on the sidelines with Marvin Jones. What was he sharing with you after that?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, we were just talking. That's the first time -- obviously we've been together in practice and all that, but in a game it's different, and the communication and what -- we had a 3rd down and we had a certain route on this 3rd down. We were just talking about how DP is, what I'm thinking he's going to do, how I'm seeing it, how he's seeing it from his standpoint, and it's just great conversations to have, a guy that's been doing it for a long time, and now playing with a new quarterback and I haven't played with him before, those are things you've just got to work out and talk about, so he's awesome, communicates really well, and that's what I'm trying to do with all the guys. This is what I'm seeing here, this is why I did that, that's why I made this call, and just working through it.
Q. Do you look upon this result tonight as disappointing in any way or do you just look upon it as a learning experience, it's the first preseason game and just kind of move on from that?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, it's disappointing any time you lose, but it is a preseason game, and for us that doesn't change anything. We still want to win. But you do have to take the nuggets that you can learn from and some things you're going to do well and other things that'll kind of show you I need to work on it, got to clean this up. We learned a lot. There's a lot of things we need to work on. But at the end of the day you want to win the game, and we didn't, so we want to get better at that.
Q. It looked like you held the ball a little bit on a couple plays. Would that be normally where you'd scramble a little bit and you were just trying not to scramble and take those hits in the preseason?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: No, not -- it wasn't that, but I will agree with what you said. I think using my legs a little bit in those situations when protection is great, we don't have anybody open, they're just matching us well on defense. They had some good zone calls today. Just using my legs to extend some plays and put us in a better situation. I think I could have done that a little bit better tonight for sure, but no, it didn't have anything to do with me not trying to take a hit or anything.
Q. Do you take a minute or a second at all to kind of soak it in?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, I think that's something we talked about this week, some of us players, like during the National Anthem, that's a really cool time to soak it all in. We're all line up right there, the whole stadium is quiet and you can kind of just reflect and know how blessed you are to be out there, and it was a pretty cool moment for my first time out there, and really just even to hear guys like Linder, like he talked about that. This is eighth year and he's still -- like that moment is still so big for him every game. We're all just grateful to be out there.
Q. Any nerves more so for this game than any other games you've played just because it's the first one in the NFL?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Not really. I mean, a little bit, just like first NFL game, whatever that is. Not really -- I usually typically get nervous before the first game of any season anyway, so that's pretty standard, but no, it was exciting. I was ready to get out there. It's been a long time coming. This has been my dream, so it was good.
Q. What did Laviska give you on those really short passes that you guys were hitting early?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, he's awesome. Just run after the catch, super strong, physical runner with the ball, and you can see what he does in space. Like we had a few tonight that he did a really good job. He always will make the first guy miss or shed the tackle. That's something he's really good at. He's just a really dynamic player because he can run any route in the route tree and get open, and then he can do stuff like that where he can get the ball in his hands and he can make plays.
Q. Could you talk about the throw you made to Marvin Jones when you had time and you watched him run that route and you read that play?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, so we had a -- I'm trying to think on that play. I was in the pocket for forever, so eventually it ended up turning into a scramble basically because he's seeing me back there like, all right, I hit you up three, four times, nobody is open, and he did a good job of getting open and reacting, and that's something we've been working through camp is a scramble drill, and I didn't actually scramble, but everyone has that time clock of, all right, the play is not working as it was designed; at this point we've got to make something happen. He did a good job, reacted quick, went upfield, and at that point I saw his back turned. I could have probably led him a little bit more, I just didn't want to overthrow him with the DB's back turned, so he made a great catch.
Q. Coach Meyer mentioned wanting to up the tempo on the offense, get to the line a little bit quicker. Is that just them getting the play call to you earlier or are you taking a little bit of a different approach in the huddle?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I think it's a little bit of everything, different times, it's different things. It's just sometimes you're not going to be able to get the play call in really quick, like Coach Bev has got a tough job to get the right call for that situation that changes every play. So sometimes it could be that, but I thought we did a good job getting the call in. It's more so now like early when you have different personnels coming in and you're playing a lot of different guys, you've got to get used to the flow of substitutions and we've got a big roster right now so a lot of guys are playing, so it's not always the easiest thing just to come in and out and stay on the ball really fast. That's something we definitely need to work and get better at and in practice having the play clock emphasis, like when I get the call, let's get it out, get up there quick, try to ID it so we can make adjustments because that's what you don't want is to get up there late and not be able to react to what the defense is doing. You're just snapping it because you've got to hurry and beat the play clock.
I'm sure that's what he was talking about and I agree it's something we've got to get better at. Yeah, it's always a little bit tougher when you've got so many substitutions right now.
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