Broncos 21, Jaguars 17
Q. How hard is it when you have a big game like that but the team comes up short overall?
TRAVIS ETIENNE: I feel like just being a competitor, it sucks. I feel like when you have an L in the stats it doesn't matter. Although we did some good things out there, we didn't come out with a W, so therefore I didn't do enough to win the game.
Have to go back to the drawing board, have to watch film, look at things I can get better at. Feel like there's a couple plays I probably could have got a little more out of something, and I have to just critique myself, keep being my biggest critic and keep getting better, so that way the outcomes are not L's and they're W's.
Q. How tough is it to stomach these close losses?
TRAVIS ETIENNE: It's really hard. It's really hard because we're out here, we work each and every week, we go there and we put our best foot forward every time. It's just something that you work all your life for and you're just not getting the result that you want, but you just have to keep your head forward and keep hitting the rock, just keep hitting the rock.
Eventually it's going to break, and I feel like once it breaks, it's going to be great things for us here.
Q. Travis, pretty big workload for you today; how do you feel? How did you come through it? How fresh were you?
TRAVIS ETIENNE: I feel like I'm a running back, and I feel like you ask any running back that question and we get better as the game goes because now they tackle us, so I feel like we get better as the game goes, the offensive line keeps rolling.
And I want to give my shoutout to them. They played a hell of a game. I feel like as a running back you're a competitor. Then the team needs you, you make those plays. I feel like throughout the game I just kept getting better and better of just getting in that zone.
I feel great right now. I'm pretty sure I'll wake up sore a little bit, but that's just football.
I'll do my little rehab and pre-hab to work on the things so I can be better next Sunday.
Q. What did you think of your first game here in London?
TRAVIS ETIENNE: Well, outside of the L, everything else was amazing. I feel like the fans were great. I felt like just the whole London experience for me was just a great experience. You're asking me as a little kid or somebody in high school if I'd be playing football in London, I would have just looked at you and been like, man, you're crazy.
But just to have the whole experience and just running out the tunnel and having the fans just yelling, I never thought people in London knew who I was, honestly. Just had like a little sign the day before and had a kid come in there and he had my jersey on. And then another man, he was like, man, we got to get your jersey here.
I feel like that's a blessing, and I feel like that's just God -- it shows that he's real. Ask him every day just to continue that let that light in me shine brighter than the one that's on me, and all the glory goes to Him. Just forever thankful.
I feel like London is definitely a place that I'll get back to. I feel like there's much love. I had some wings at the hotel, and I know wings are simple, but they were great. They were really great. I went for like seconds and thirds, and I tore up the breakfast this morning.
It was cereal -- I didn't find a cereal I liked this morning, that was the only thing, but other than that, everything else was great.
Q. With these close losses, does the locker room still feel like the arrow is pointing up with this team?
TRAVIS ETIENNE: Definitely. I feel like we're football players. We're competitors, and the moment we lose faith, that's when everything falls down.
We can't lose faith. We just have to keep believing. Like we watch film just like y'all guys watch the game. We know we're doing great things out there. We know we're so close. As a team I feel like these games, we have to gel closer together because that's the only way we're going to make it.
I was just telling Trev, it's never on you. It's a team sport. As a team sport, we have to come together and just keep finding ways to be better, and I feel like at the end of the game we just have to keep finding ways, and when we get this outcome we just have to look in the mirror and come closer as a team because that's the only way we're going to get this done.
Football is played with 11 men on the field at that time a time and not one man is going to be the whole show. We just have to get 11 on the field, each of us doing our job, and that's how we're going to be better.
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