Jaguars 40, Cowboys 34
Q. Trevor, can you give us your emotions of the game and why you and Zay were so connected today with three touchdown passes?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I don't know, honestly. I don't know why. It's just one of those days. It's kind of how our offense has been working this whole year. You never know whose day it's going to be. It could be anybody's.
Obviously you have things in the plan for everybody. Maybe someone has a little bit more, depending on who you're playing, the defense you're playing.
But it wasn't necessarily a game where I knew Zay was going to have a huge day. It was just kind of how things went, and then we got some calls in there like the double move on the outside with the long touchdown that we got off the card, which was awesome. He made a bunch of great plays, so it was awesome.
Q. What did it mean to you seeing the defense get that three-and-out late and give you guys another chance?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I mean, just kind of epitomizes this team. We were down 17 at one point, I don't know, before that I think we were down -- whatever it was -- threw the pick, bad play, defense responds, holds them, kick a field goal, we get it back, go score, fight back.
We go on a little run those next two or three series offensively. We were just moving the ball up and down the field, and then we get them down at the end, we're down by three, have three minutes left on that drive, putting together a good drive, had a nice run, and then I fumble trying to cut back.
Right away I was like, oh, game is over, fumbled, and I was just obviously -- couldn't believe it and I was disappointed. Then I look up, well, we've got three time-outs, our defense has been bowing up every time we've needed them today.
So I am standing there at our defense's mercy just praying we get a stop, and really believed in those guys, just what they've shown, and didn't even flinch. I am walking off, they're all picking me up walking off after the fumble. They're like, we got you.
That's just the mindset of this team. No matter what happens you've just got to keep playing. We've all seen -- I mentioned even like the Vikings game the other night, you've got to keep playing.
You never know what's in store on the next play, and if you're too busy thinking about the last one you're going to miss it. I think that's a great example of how we were able to do that today. Just battled some adversity, and it was always the Jags, as Dewey would say.
Q. We did record him coming through the hallway creaming that.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Again today?
Q. Yes. We do have the video.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Awesome. I'll see that later.
Q. When you go back to the Broncos' interception. I talked to Christian, he referenced the Giants game you guys come up two feet short. When you look at those games, how you've learned from them, but also like you were just saying the resiliency of this team for you to fumble and no one flinches, how has that changed over the last five weeks with this team, that you guys -- that happens, and not only do you personally flush the play, but everybody seems to flush it?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I think it's one of those things. We were pretty -- this is a newer group. A lot of us haven't played together before. A few of us have obviously last season and beyond that, but we've got a lot of new guys, and I think you build that over time, that trust in one another. I think we built it pretty fast here, but still, it takes time.
I think early in the year we kind of had to prove to each other that we can win no matter what the situation is, and then you look at -- I'm trying to even think of the wins we've had. Baltimore is one of them, but especially today. Going back even before that, the Raiders game we were down 17.
I think we got more and more confidence as the season has gone on, where no matter what kind of hole we're in, we're going to find a way out of it. We just got to keep playing, keep playing, and I think we've done that now three or four times this season to where now when something bad happens, no one is looking around. We're all just staying calm.
We know we just got to make the next play. We all know when that time in the game is. All right, we're down 14. It's late in the third quarter. We've got to go now.
I think we've been able to make plays in those big moments where we have to have them. Obviously you don't want to be in that situation every week, but sometimes you're going to be.
Dallas is a great team. Really, really good team. That's going to happen. Just to be able to fight through that, I think that says a lot about this team, how much we trust one another.
And then just kind of icing on the cake, Rayshawn, the game-sealing pick six is incredible.
Q. And where were you on Rayshawn's pick six?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I was over by our little quarterback section on the bench just standing there watching. Big 3rd down obviously. I could just tell the way the play was unfolding kind of had to scramble. I figured we were going to get a stop there, but then I saw them throw the shallow and ball got tipped, and when he caught it I was just like thinking, okay, we're going to be in field goal range, maybe get a 1st down game winner.
And then we just kept rolling. I was like, thank goodness. I didn't want to go back on the field. Just end it right now. We all want to go home. Get the win. What better way to do it than a walk-off by him.
He had a crazy -- I don't know what the stats were, but he had a crazy day today, which was awesome.
Q. Apparently he had never had a pick six in his life before, going pack to Pee-Wee.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Good time for it. It was a really good time for it.
Q. It's a national game; it's the Cowboys; what do you think people take away from this team that were watching this game, about this team's identity, about who they are, about what kind of feeling you guys have about this team?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I don't really care, honestly, what people think. I say that; I do think it feels good to win a game like this. A big game, national game, like you said, against a great team. It feels good just to show who we are. You can't lie; that feels good to show people that.
But it doesn't change anything about us. We're the same group. We lost five games straight in October and everyone wrote us off. If you listen to what people say, you're not really in a good spot. It's the same group and we've just stuck together. It's been fun.
Right here, three games left, we've got a little run we've got to make, and we've said that the last couple weeks, and we've stepped up to the challenge. We've got to do it again on a short week.
This one is short lived. We've got to flush it by the morning and get ready for the Jets.
Q. Obviously you go into the game with Travon Walker inactive; the Cowboys come up with a double-digit lead, but like you've said, this team is accustomed to adversity anyways. How much did Travon Walker not playing enter your mind that you're going to win despite him being out of the lineup, that you guys can prove to people that you are a legitimate football team on the rise?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, today is his birthday, actually. I don't know if you guys knew that. So I saw him in the training room and he's been trying to go all week. Just doing everything he can to play because he wants to be out there, and saw him in there not suiting up, so I knew he wasn't going to play. I saw him today. I was like, hey, we got you. We're going to get this one for you. That was what I told him. Saw him after the game and gave him a hug. I was like, I told you. That's just how this team is. It's awesome.
Q. You mentioned about going 0 for 5 in October. When you see the script flip the way it has, talking about the way the season has gone, does it in any way make you feel like this is a team of destiny at all?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I don't even know what that means. Tough question. (Laughter.)
I think that it just shows what this game is about. You're never out of it. Obviously we put ourselves -- we've been saying this for a while. We put ourselves in a hole with that little rough stretch we were on, but you're never out of it. I think that's the cool thing about this game is you get to see yourselves fight through adversity, be resilient, and we're a lot better for it.
Even today just the way we won that game -- when you win games like this, like we did with Baltimore, too, and the Raiders, when you win games like this, it just builds so much trust in your group. When this comes up again because it's going to happen again; we're going to be down seven or 14 again, and there's no panic because we've been there. Literally that's what we say on the sideline is we've been here before. That's what we said today.
To answer your question, I don't know. We've got to finish this year and we've got three games left to give ourselves a shot, and we're really only focusing on the Jets now, and that's what you have to do, one game at a time and see where we're at, but we're stacking up pretty nicely here at the end, so we've got to keep going.
Q. The pass that got you into field goal range to tie the game up, tell us a little about that play because obviously getting that time out was an important thing. How many different options were there before you snapped the ball, got the play?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, it was an interesting little series of events. Obviously Evan -- that's one of the plays of the game, getting out of bounds there, throw him a shallow on the hash and he runs all the way and somehow gets out without getting tackled. Then after that, it was 3rd down and we get up there and they're bringing cover zero, then they called a time-out.
We would have to -- obviously they're bringing pressure, so you've got to figure out what play you want to get in. So I was kind of assessing that. They call a time-out, it gives us time. Then they check out of it. They go out, they go single high. They went zone; I thought it was man, so I got my man concept going on the other side, and it wasn't man, so I got kind of stuck there, so I scrambled. But then Zay did a great job just making himself available and we made the play and I think it was right over a guy's head. Barely got it.
It's just one of those games where we had to make some plays like that. It wasn't always pretty, and it was a pretty crazy little sequence there, though.
Q. You just referenced it a little bit, but how big was the Evan play to get out of bounds --
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Huge.
Q. Just the awareness, the situational awareness, the toughness --
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It's kind of like everybody asked me last week when he had a huge game, is it cool to see him have a game like that. Yeah, but he's been a great player for us this whole season. Like I said, it hasn't always showed up in the stats, but that play, you could argue that helped us win the game. If he doesn't get out there, we burn the time out, there's not many plays you can run to get 10, 12 yards and get out of bounds that the defense doesn't know you're going to do. Everybody runs the same stuff.
That's not a situation you want to be in where you've got to get out of bounds, you need 10 yards to get in field goal range, you don't have any time to get it inbounds and clock it, and that let us call whatever we wanted to call, and then scrambled and hit Zay. That changed the game.
Just little things like that. There's so many plays today that you can look at that if guys don't make, we don't win, and it's cool to be, like I've said before, on this side of it when we make those plays and win, so it's cool.
Q. Before I left my house this morning my seven-year-old told me a Jags' win would make his Christmas. What does it mean to you that so many people of all ages find joy in your success and the success of this team?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It's one of the cooler things about what we do. Obviously when things aren't going well, you're under the microscope and it's not always great, but when you have days like today and you kind of do what we've been able to do the last couple weeks, just to see the excitement.
People spend their hard-earned money to come watch up play, to travel to watch us play. Just to see the fans be able to enjoy the wins with us, too, when we're able to do what we did today, it's special. Like you said, there's kids, there's adults, everybody is really hanging their hat on what we do on Sunday. That's a pretty cool position to be in, and it's great when you can do something like we did today and be able to just to give them a little bit of joy, so it's awesome.
Q. Can you just talk about Walker Little, coming off the bench playing left tackle and right tackle against a guy like Micah Parsons, and what does that say about him?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Says a lot. If you asked anyone, that's probably the last thing someone wants to do going in to play, and these guys just flip back and forth each tackle position going against Micah moving all over the place. That's not really what you want to do.
But for him, he was pumped to get the opportunity, and just ready to step up and play. He's had to do that before last year. I think Cam went out right before the game we played Buffalo and we ended up beating Buffalo, and he had to play the whole game at left tackle without really getting any reps in practice. So he's done that before, and I've got a lot of trust in him, and he's been great for us.
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