49ers 34, Jaguars 3
Q. Did you have any conversations with Steve Wilkes on the sideline during this game?
ARIK ARMSTEAD: A little bit. I felt his energy. He came up to us, congratulated us on some plays, and that voice telling us to keep going and don't let up. So yeah, I definitely felt him on the sideline.
Q. How did you feel that Nick -- Nick has played well, but he hasn't been filling up the stat sheet. Did you feel something different from him today?
ARIK ARMSTEAD: Nothing different. Nick has just been doing what he has been doing -- we finally had a quarterback who held on to the ball for a little bit, and we were able to show up in the stat sheet today. But Nick has been playing great all year.
Whatever the criticism that comes with getting a big contract, Nick has been dominant in the pass and run game. He has been all year.
It showed up in the stat sheet today, but he's been doing that all year.
Q. Lawrence has been one of the quickest this year at getting the ball out. What was working that he was able to make that --
ARIK ARMSTEAD: Really tying the front and the coverage. The guys on the back end were -- we were disguising things. We were mixing it up. That allowed us -- guys being sticky in coverage allowed us the extra hitch, and confusing him, and once we confused him, he was looking to scramble, and our job was to keep him in the pocket and get him down.
Q. Do you see any change in him? You guys got a couple right off the bat on 3rd down. Do you see anything in him where this is going to be one of those days --
ARIK ARMSTEAD: When it starts out early, it could turn into one of those special days for you up front, and we definitely had a good day up front, but got a lot more to go.
We can continue to get better, and we weren't perfect out there, so it's a great feeling to get a win. Haven't felt that in a while, and it was great to play well.
But turn the page for sure.
Q. On the one play where it looked like you took one in the shin --
ARIK ARMSTEAD: I didn't take one in the shin. He tripped me, kicked me in my knee and kind of messed up my day.
Q. Did you guys feel that you had something to prove after the criticism you might have been hearing?
ARIK ARMSTEAD: I mean, we know who we are. We know what we're capable of. We have an extremely high standard for ourselves, bigger than any people or outside people can put on us. We want to be great. We want to be dominant, and we want to play at a high level.
We know our team is going to need us to do that if we want to get to where we want to go.
Any outside -- you guys need to do this, we already put pressure, and a sense of responsibility on ourselves to go out there and put the team on our back and win games.
Q. Is it just a bruise or something?
ARIK ARMSTEAD: Yeah, I should be straight.
Q. Did you say something back to him when he --
ARIK ARMSTEAD: I didn't know what happened. I have a lot of respect for him, but tripping me, kicking me in my knee, could have got seriously hurt. It was just a dirty play.
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