Jacksonville Jaguars Media Conference

Monday, September 23, 2024

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Trevor Lawrence

Postgame Press Conference


Bills 47, Jaguars 10

Q. Trevor is there anything you can put your finger on as to the why tonight?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, honestly, no. Yeah, I thought we had a good plan coming into the week. Had a really good week of practice and prep.

At some point you got to go do it in the game and we haven't been able to do that yet. Don't have a great answer for you right now. I think obviously watching the tape is going to help, and we got to fix the mistakes that are showing up.

Plenty of them to pass around to everybody. We're the ones that got to make the corrections. At the end of the day, we know when we step on the field we got to make the plays. I think that's what we're lacking right now, just not making the plays.

We're in positions to do it and not doing it, so...

Q. Almost feels like (indiscernible) or is it a lot of the same stuff?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, like I said, I have to watch it and really see kind of all the plays. I know there is obviously some in my mind that I'm thinking about that didn't go our way. We got to figure out why and how do we learn from it, what we can do better every position.

You know, it's just one of those times where we don't have any momentum. It seems like everyone takes their turn on making a bad play at the wrong time, including myself. Seems really difficult to go forward. Can't find that rhythm right now. We all have or share in it.

It takes us making the plays out there. You know, players play, coaches coach. We step on the field we got to make the plays.

So we have to take all the accountability, all the criticism, scrutiny. We're just not doing that right now and that's our job, is to go make the plays.

I know that I'm not playing as good as I can play, just point-blank. There are plays out there -- the one to Brian, I'm sure you guys saw, just a throw you miss and turns into a turnover.

It's a game where the defense needed us to make some plays to get some momentum to settle in to keep the ball, put some points on the board, give them a little breather, and for example that really hurts us.

So yeah, we got to make the plays. It's that simple. This game, it's hard but not that hard. We made it look really, really hard today. We're a lot better than that.

Q. I know it's week to week, but how do you prevent the feelings of that (indiscernible)?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, honestly, this is just one you throw in the garbage. You watch and make the corrections and move on as quick as possible. We got a day less than normal. We got Houston. Good week for a short week in my opinion. We need to move on and flush it.

So that's really the mindset there, is it's enough talking and we're not going to talk ourselves into anything. We got to go out there and do it. No one is come to go save us. It's us.

I still got all the trust and faith in our guys, but we have to stick together. This is going to challenge us. Obviously the first three games haven't gone our way. Tonight was really, really bad. It's going to challenge us and we got to stick together.

We're going to be fine, but we got to go do it.

Q. Doug mentioned maybe changing the process, maybe how you go about the week. Anything in terms of your process you might think of changing?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Of course I'm open to changes, but I work really hard in the week to prepare myself to play. Like I said, I'm not playing my best right now, and that is frustrating.

I got to look at maybe there are things I could do better in the week to prepare. I put the time in. I got confidence in that. It's just execution all the way around the board. Whether it's missing throws, being on the same page communication-wise, or protections up front, you know, all those things, there are so many things that go into it.

Where we are now, like I said, is just we -- sometimes you're on teams where everything is going right for and you can afford to make some mistakes and find a way to win. We're just not there right now. We have to make those plays early. Got to settle in earlier.

I think we started with a three and out again today. Right now we're not playing well enough to survive that. We just have to be sharper early in the game and settle in.

Q. There is really not much you can do (indiscernible) all off-season, all camp. Kind of being who you guys are.

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah.

Q. What can you really change overall?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Like I said, it's really as simple as just players playing and playing well and consistently playing well. We're not doing that right now.

So we believe in what we're doing, but we got to go do it. There is enough blame to go around for everybody. We're all accountable enough to own our part of it.

You can own it but got to do something about it. Got to go play better. So I got to be -- I need to play really well for us to win. That's the NFL. Quarterback has to play well every week to give yourself a shot to win.

Don't feel like I've done that consistently enough. I put that on myself. I got to play better.

Q. ...anger level in the locker room at this point?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: It's frustrating. Obviously just kind of -- after tonight, just a little bit stunned to be honest. We work really hard. We practice hard, put a lot of time in, so it's -- I mean, disappointing would be an understatement.

Felt like we had an opportunity, primetime game, Monday night, show who we are. That's not who we are and we know that. That's what it looks like we are right now, so we got to fix it.

It's on us. So I think all the talking and stuff I'm kind of tired of. We're going to have to keep doing it until we show some answers on the field.

Q. Do you know why you're not playing well, playing where you want to be?

TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I think early on in the games we got to find a way to stay on track, to get in a rhythm. I felt like we haven't been able to do that. Every game has been something different, so I think that's part of it.

I think another part is just I've missed a few throws, which happen. Every game you're going to have some. It's always nice when you can get in a rhythm early. Maybe you have that in the second or third quarter and bounce back next play, hit one, and get going again.

But, yeah, to be honest, I have lot of confidence in myself and what I can do. Disappointed in how I've been playing. So I would have to watch and see kind of what the issue was tonight.

I think it's really difficult in this league when you get down by that much to drop back pass every play. The defense knows it. Coverage changes a lot. Pass rush changes a lot. It's hard for the guys up front. So that speeds things up, too.

They did a good job. Credit to Buffalo. They disguised coverages really well tonight. Played just about everything you could play.

At times we had a good plan for it and exposed it, but not consistently enough. Yeah, it's a few different things I would say with why I don't feel like I've played as good as I can play.

Tonight obviously the costly turnover when we needed some momentum, that really hurt us. I throw a foot lower and it's a huge gain and we're rolling. It's a game of inches, though. You can't miss those.

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