Tennessee Titans 37 - Jacksonville Jaguars 19
Q. How important is it to win after last week and you're hoping maybe you guys can maybe get the consistency moving forward to a big game against Buffalo next Monday?
TAYLOR LEWAN: Yeah. It's important to win every single week. What happened last week, getting started too late and all that, that's in the past now. The biggest thing was to focus on this week. And Jacksonville is a good team. I know they're 0 and 5 and all of that, but I think in past experiences, and something about Jacksonville is that it wasn't as much fight if the game got a little separate. They fought the entire game. They played hard. Their defense plays extremely hard. They have great leadership on that team. They're going to win some games this year. I know they're going to have a much better year than the start has been. They played hard all game, and I'm just really happy for the team to get back on track and kind of keep moving forward.
Q. When the defense scores first like they did today, what does that do to you guys on the sidelines?
TAYLOR LEWAN: Harold and I were talking one time and he was like, hey, when you guys go out there first and score, it makes it feel like there's not so much pressure. And I think that definitely happened. Obviously they did a great job of going down and scoring. Those guys fight, man. This is a tough place to play. They have a lot of young guys on their team that are very talented, very hungry. Just happy to get this one, get back on track playing cleaner games, getting the O line to play better every single week. That's the goal. And start hitting the stride. We have a big stretch coming up and a big game coming up Monday night.
Q. What can you say about the constant success Derrick brings on the field?
TAYLOR LEWAN: Yeah. This whole team loves Derrick. I love Derrick. He's a great guy. He wants to win, he wants to play well, but he could have 20 yards and as long as we win, that's all he cares about. I'm a huge fan of Derrick Henry. Have been for a long time, and I'm just happy he's on our team, man. I really am. I love being around the guy. He's a good friend. I'm really happy for him. The way he comes out and works every single week, there's a reason why he's captain. I voted for him as captain. I think he's a stud. And we know what we're capable of. And the crazy thing is from a rushing standpoint, as an offensive line, we could do way better. We've played way better in the past. So we're leaving a lot of the meat on the bone right now, and we know that as an offensive line, and it's just the continuation of every week getting a little bit better, moving a little bit further. For me every week has been making progress. Every week has been a cleaner game, being better. So for me individually, it's just continuing to go out and do that and help Derrick get more yards and protect Tannehill.
Q. When you say meat on the bone, you mean like from an efficiency standpoint?
TAYLOR LEWAN: Efficiency standpoint. I think we've played better in the past. There's times we've played better last year or the year before, us as a group. So I think we need to continue. Gotta keep working at it. Guys gotta keep going, coming in to work Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It's good to have 130 yards obviously, but we gotta start faster. There's a lot more we're capable of as an offensive line to help Derrick be more successful and to help Ryan be more successful. I think we hold ourselves to an extremely high standard, and we'll continue to try to work on that.
Q. Taylor, five games in with Todd, how do you feel like the offense has grown in the short early part?
TAYLOR LEWAN: Todd's a stud. Todd is a stud. And I think -- I love Todd. We talk all the time. The way he talks to the players, the way he talks to the coaches. There's a big -- people want to compare him and Arthur all the time. I think, you know, the easiest comparison is the guys don't have egos. They want to do whatever they possibly can to help the team. And I think when Arthur first got in, I don't remember -- was it '19 was our first year with Arthur? I think we started 2 and 4. And he just kept working. He never wavered. He never seemed like he was panicking. And really seems that way with Todd, too, that there's really never a panic. He's always willing to listen. At the end of the game I came up to him and said, hey, give me an opportunity to run left, like give me that opportunity. And he called a couple and a couple worked out. So I love Todd, and I think he's doing a great job. I don't know how to be an OC, though, just to clarify.
Q. The ability to stay on the field for those third downs and keep drives alive, how much do you think did that wear down the Jacksonville team?
TAYLOR LEWAN: I don't know how much they got wore down or their mindset in those situations. I think Ryan did a great job getting the ball out of his hands. I think the offensive line for the most part did a great job passing off games. They put a lot of five guys on the field and one-on-oned us and played a lot of games, which put us in a lot of games and really tested us. And Ryan did a great job of moving in the pocket and getting the ball out of his hand, and just a complete pro right there. Made us look really good.
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