Jaguars 23, Falcons 7
Q. You talked about it earlier in the week, you guys need to be dominant up front. Do you feel like you guys accomplished that?
JOSH ALLEN: It was definitely progression. I think we let them off the hook a little bit beginning of that second half to give them that touchdown. There's still room for improvement up front, especially for the whole defense to not allow that to happen. But it was a heck of a way to fight, heck of a way for guys to make plays when their number was called, and for my performance, I couldn't do a lot of it without the guys in front of me.
I had Foley helping me push the pocket, as well, to help me get that one, then Tre Herndon for the inside blitz. Quarterback rolled out right into me. In the second one I told the DBs just to give me a little bit more time. It was definitely a collection of everybody working together, but that process starts in practice. We'll continue to practice hard, continue to communicate, good things may come.
Q. This is the best start to a season in your entire career. What does that do for you momentum-wise the rest of the year?
JOSH ALLEN: For me, it's a week by week basis. First and foremost I've got to take care of my body. I've got to make sure that my body is where I can compete at a high level. When you're playing in the league, every week your body is going to be dealing with something, so it's how well can I maintain that and not have setbacks, so that's first and foremost, and nutrition. I make sure to eat right, pro eat, make sure to study accordingly, know who I'm going against, know their weaknesses, know their strengths, and execute those in practice, and it starts in practice.
I think the preparation all week has been on point, not only for myself but for the defense as a whole, communicate, run to the ball, do the little things we've always done, and for me, just got to keep going, keep studying, keep putting time in, keep getting your body right and just keep going.
Q. Is there a part of you that says this is the year for me and my future?
JOSH ALLEN: For me, it's just day-to-day. I try not to become a robot and say I have to do this, I have to do this. If I don't do this it's not going to happen.
I'm really in the moment and just handling my business. For me, this is strictly business. I'm about my business, and I'm ready to win games. I want to be the guy for the defense that we can count on.
I know last week where I could have made a little bit more plays, so I feel like I personally let the team down, and this week was just get back on track, and I got back on track. Go home tonight, finish this game, learn my corrections, move on to the Buffalo Bills.
Q. How exciting would it be to sack Josh Allen next weekend?
JOSH ALLEN: Again, I've done it before, but the Buffalo Bills is a really good team behind a good experienced offensive line, so it's definitely going to have to go back and study. Like I said, I'm going to start tonight, start looking at those guys because I have to be prepared for what I can do. Today I studied his weakness, and I found a weakness that I could exploit, and it was just waiting to get to those opportunities, which was stop the run. We stop the run, be able to rush the passer. Next week we'll see what their weakness is, stop that, and then I can have my opportunities.
I'm excited to play another game in London. I'm excited to get some rest tonight, and excited to go.
Q. Josh, what was the difference -- last week the defense couldn't get there, couldn't make a play. Today takeaways, sacks, every time you needed to make a play, you did. Can you pinpoint something that was working today that didn't work last week?
JOSH ALLEN: I think preparation. I think like just being dedicated to each other, playing for one another, having energy and being focused. I think all that starts in practice. All that starts when you're outside of work, how do you prepare, because I think we all prepare individually, we have team success.
But it takes every 11, and this week, man, we prepared the right way.
Q. So the extra time that you had on a plane, in the Grove together, did that play into it at all, that you got away from Jacksonville?
JOSH ALLEN: I definitely got with my guys and we definitely hung out, just played the game, studied some tape, just talked football, but I also spent time and talked to my family, as well -- well, as much as I can at 12:00 at night. But we spent a lot of time together, and I'm glad we get to spend some more time together, and just to keep building on this.
For me, this week, after tonight, this game is done and over with, and time to move on to the next one.
Q. Do you feel you have an advantage over your competitors because you've come to London so many times, you come every year. Are you used to it by now?
JOSH ALLEN: I've traveled a lot to London the past five years, so for me personally, I kind of know what to do, when to sleep, when not to sleep, things to eat, things not to eat. I know I need to drink a lot of water on the flight.
But for us, this is home for us. When we come here, we feel like it's a home game. We feel the excitement. We feel our fans. We feel the energy in the stands.
We love coming here. We know we've got the fans of all the fans out there, 85,000, I believe, cheering for us, and it was a great feeling.
Q. When you heard everybody sing "Sweet Caroline" --
JOSH ALLEN: It's pretty dope. It's pretty dope. I heard that. I was still locked into what I needed to do, but it was right when our offense was coming out, so I kind of was sitting on the sideline. I thought it was pretty cool. I thought it was pretty cool that everybody sung you guys' National Anthem. I thought that was pretty amazing, as well, real cultural, and yeah, just enjoyed the whole experience.
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