Falcons 21, Jaguars 14
Q. Trevor, seemed to be a few more RPOs today and a little bit different looking offense. Do you feel like it was different? How good was it there to rally at the end behind some of that stuff?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I thought we had some good wrinkles today. Obviously not the result we wanted. Wanted to come out with a win. But I think offensively we were a lot more efficient. Number one thing is finishing drives. We've got to score more touchdowns. So I'd say that's the main thing. But I did think we took a step as far as productivity today. I thought we did a better job.
Q. It seemed like you found a rhythm when you guys picked up the tempo on the offense. Is that something that you like to do, go up tempo?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I like tempo. I think over the course of the season we've started to realize that's something that we do well. That's something that I'm pretty used to in college. We did some similar things.
I think did a great job executing our fast tempo plays today, so something we'll keep working on, and when the time is right we'll use it when we need it, but I do think we did a good job using it today.
Q. We asked Urban this question earlier. Earlier in the first quarter you threw that interception; did you think that was a free play? Was that kind of why you threw it so deep?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: No, I saw him jump. I wasn't sure -- I wasn't positive that was a free play, so that wasn't the reason I threw it. I thought we had a little bit more separation on the guy for the deep ball, and we got kind of held up at the top of the route. Yeah, I mean, I think that -- I thought we were going to win over the top, so you've got to anticipate those throws, and that's one we didn't. Me and Marv already talked about that and kind of cleared all that up. We communicated. But no, I didn't think it was a free play.
Q. After your last three you were talking with the official, you looked pretty upset. Were you upset about the 3rd down non-PI call you thought you should have?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, you can't ever leave it in the refs' hands. That's never a smart thing to do. So offensively we've got to put ourselves in a better situation. But yeah, I was frustrated that obviously 4th down didn't go the way we wanted it to, the play we had. But yeah, the 3rd down I thought was PI. Obviously I'll have to go back and look at it, but I thought it was pretty obvious. That's why I was so frustrated. At the end of the day, can't leave it in their hands. You've got to go execute and can't rely on calls. That's a lesson learned there for sure.
Q. How hard is it 11 weeks in that the offense is still evolving, adding more of the RPOs and tempo stuff, would you have liked it to get to this point quicker than 11 weeks?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I think we've all been trying to figure it out. We've had some ups and downs offensively and some lulls that we've been trying to figure out and there's a lot of things that go into it. Every week you're playing different defense, so that affects your scheme and then just -- there's a lot of things that go into it and we're trying to figure out what we're good at. I think today was a step in the right direction. Like I said, I thought we were more efficient, still got a lot of work to do, got to get better. Only scored one touchdown so got to help our defense out. You feel better after this game as an offense compared to last week or the week before.
That's a positive, but yeah, we've got to just score some more points at the end of the day.
Q. If you could just kind of walk us through that last drive. I know obviously you guys turned the ball over on downs, what you saw of those four passes that went incomplete.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, first play I think we ran a little -- threw a flat route to O'Shag and then to the two-minute warning, and then after that incomplete on a check-down, I believe, on that one. That just happened. So then we got 3rd down, threw a 3rd down conversion to Marv. Then from there we just -- 1st, 2nd down we didn't get anything going. 3rd down we had I think it was the route across the middle to Tread that I would have liked a PI call there but tough we didn't convert that. And then 4th down, they'd been giving us some tough looks all day, and that's something I can learn from. I didn't think I diagnosed it great. Just learning from that, going back and watch the film, like what are the tells for this certain defense because that's what people -- it's a copycat league. People are going to look at that and try to do some similar stuff. Just a lot of stuff I can learn from. As a young player every week there's been a lot of things to learn from, and there's definitely some on that last drive, and down in the red zone earlier in the game we need to be more efficient and that starts with me.
This will be a good one to watch and learn a lot from and communicate with the guys because we've got a lot of things to clear up.
Q. Speaking of that, second time in three weeks the comeback falls short. I know you have been so poised and you're looking at this as a bigger picture, this is a learning year, but how frustrating is this that it's the second time in three weeks that you guys had the ball with a chance to tie it at the end?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, it's frustrating. Our defense two times has put us in a situation to go win the game and haven't been able to do it. So we've just got to get better and go make those plays in the biggest moments. I know we can do it, but we've got to go do it and that starts with me and staying on schedule even in the two-minute. It's tough when you get in 3rd and 4th and 10. We've got to get better at that, but we're going to get some more opportunities and just keep working for when you do get it to go and execute and win the game.
Q. You mentioned you didn't think you diagnosed that 4th down play at the end all that great. Is that why the pass was so short of the target? Were you anticipating that the route would be a little bit shorter or could you just kind of take us through that?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I'll have to go back and look at it. Obviously we have certain depths for all of our routes and I'll have to look at where we ran that one at. I think I anticipated that to be a little shorter, but I'll have to watch it because I'm not saying that the route was too deep yet or not. I haven't seen it, so it's hard to tell. I didn't think it was a great ball on that last play, rushed it a little bit. Need to go back and watch it and communicate like I said. This will be a great one to watch with all the skill guys and really those situations are so critical. It comes down to one play here or there where you need to make a play and you need to be on the same page, and we've just got to get there.
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