Browns 18, Jaguars 13
Q. Can you start with the safety? Obviously you didn't have a lot of time there, but from your vantage point, what broke down on that play?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, obviously just play where even if don't have a ton of time I've got to get rid of it. You're in the end zone, and just held on to it for a tick too long, trying to wait on it to develop downfield, and I was trying to move away from a little interior guy that kind of got through, and then I just -- it was a bad play by me.
I thought the O-line did a good job for most of the night holding up against a really good pass rush, really good group. Yeah, just can't happen. Just live to fight another down. If it's not there right away, get it out of your second.
Second will be 2nd down on the 2 instead of making that safety and it basically ends the game. Obviously our defense got us another shot, but slim chances.
Q. How stunned are you by the offensive performance in the last six quarters?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, we suck right now, so I'm pretty shocked.
Obviously we had a great off-season, great training camp, and we've got to figure it out. We know we've got a good group, we've got good players, and we can be a really good offense, but clearly we're not.
Everybody has got to take accountability, look in the mirror, and fix it. I've got to play better. I'm the leader of this offense. It's on me.
The wideouts got to play better, the line has got to play better, running backs got to play better, we've got to coach better. It's everybody, honestly. But we're standing around, we've got to take charge. We're standing around waiting on somebody to make a play. Defense is playing their ass off the last two weeks.
If a team doesn't score more than 20 points, we should win every week. We can't finish in the red zone today, too many mistakes, getting in and out of the huddle, communication wasn't good. It's a lot of things.
Fortunately or unfortunately it's what pisses you off after the game. A lot of it we control. We control it but we're not doing it right. Until we do it right, it's a different story.
We know the things we've got to work on and we've got to find a rhythm as an offense. Too many good players to perform like that, really the last two weeks.
Q. I was going to ask you about that because obviously it's a rhythm position where once you get into a rhythm, everything kind of flows in it, but how hard has it been to get that kind of rhythm? Secondly, did the Browns show you anything differently defensively that maybe you didn't see on film before?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Not really. This is a team that does what they do. This coordinator has been in the league for a long time. He's been really good for a long time. Has had a bunch of good defenses.
Their scheme is simple and they're physical and they play fast and they diagnose things quickly.
We had what I thought was a good plan, and obviously maybe wasn't a good plan. Who knows? Didn't work. We didn't execute it great, either.
There's a lot of stuff we've got to go back to the drawing board and look at. Like I said, everybody has to look in the mirror. This isn't the time to be getting defensive. We've got to stand up and say, this is on me. I've got to fix it. Everybody has got to fix it.
Q. Trevor, just seems like things were disjointed from the get-go. You guys had to use two time-outs in the first half to avoid delay of games. You slammed the ball in frustration on one of them. Anything you can point to as to why it just took so long to get into any kind of rhythm?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I don't know, to be honest. Seemed like also one of those was on me. The clock was rolling, it was after a big play, and we didn't have the urgency getting out of the huddle and getting up to the line and seeing the play clock. I own that one, and we took the first time-out.
After that, it's just communication. We're getting in, getting in late, we're trying to figure it out, and obviously Evan went down today before the game, so some things changed, but it doesn't matter. There's no excuses. You've got to perform and you've got to be able to adjust.
Know the plan. Know the plays that are coming in. If it changes personnels, if whatever changes, we've got to get in faster, we've got to get out of the huddle. This is a team that's really good up front. You want to know where you're going protection-wise, you want to have time to communicate, you want to have time to get out of the huddle quickly so you can communicate, and they do have some pressure stuff that's really good that you have to be able to diagnose, and if you don't have time, it makes it really hard.
We played behind the clock way too much today, especially in the red zone.
We've got to look at it and say, hey, is it me? Am I not communicating good enough in the huddle? Are we not getting our substitutes in fast enough? Are we not listening enough in the huddle? Are we not tight enough? Are we breaking the huddle and asking what we've got? Different things. It's on all of us. We all have to look at that and just put emphasis on communication. It's day one stuff. It's simple stuff.
Q. You mentioned earlier about not having Evan. What about Christian Kirk? It just seems like for whatever reason he hasn't been able to get going, either.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. Yeah. It's a great point. That's something where there's opportunities where I've got to get him the ball, but we've also got to get him the ball. We've got to make that an emphasis. He's one of our best players. We've got to keep him involved.
I'm not putting that on anyone in particular. There was opportunities for him to get the ball today where maybe I didn't get to him quick enough or didn't find him, went somewhere else with the ball, whatever, but we have to continue to give him the opportunities to make plays because we've all seen how good he is. He's not the only one.
We've got to -- we can't hit the panic button, but we've got to have some real conversations. We've got too good of a team to come out here and perform two weeks in a row like this. I mean, these games are precious and you don't get them back, and we're 0-2 to start the year and it's not going to get any easier.
We've got a lot of good teams in our schedule, one coming up this week. We'd better fix it quick.
We can't hit the panic button at the same time. We have to stay together. We have to stay together.
Q. Just to piggyback off that part, what is that balance between not hitting the panic button but saying, hey, what we're doing right now isn't working, and is there a step to take to kind of jump start this thing?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I think it's holding yourself and others accountable. When we go watch this game tomorrow, whenever we watch it, I'm not sure the schedule with the Monday night game, whenever we go watch this game, we've got to be honest with ourselves, and if you don't like it and if you made a mistake and you don't like people calling it out and talking about it, you need to find a different job because this isn't the one.
Things matter. Little details matter. I'm talking to myself as much as anyone, so I don't want it to be misconstrued but that stuff matters. Everyone had a play today, at least one, that they can do their job a lot better. You look back at it, and all those plays add up and this they affect the game and you end up losing.
We played as bad as we can play, and what was it, 18-13? We were 1 for 4 in the red zone. We score one of those times, we win the game. It comes down to that.
We didn't get set on the one play, touchdown to Christian, and then you look back at the drive earlier in the first half, we had the two time-outs, and then after that I think I missed Brian who was open, and then after that had to scramble and whatever. It's just little details. We were in the red zone twice close down the inside the 5 and didn't score. You can't do that in this league. You've got to take advantage of those opportunities. So yeah.
Q. Did you and Doug, did some frustration boil over at one point? I think TV cameras caught you guys in an animated conversation at one point.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I don't honestly remember when that was. No, just me and him talking to each other. Is that what you were talking about? I honestly don't remember. We've had a lot of conversations today throughout the game, and it's stuff where -- we're on the same page. That's what I'd say there. We're on the same page.
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