Packers 30, Jaguars 27
Q. Can you kind of walk us through that last drive that resulted in the touchdown to Evan? Just obviously having so many guys out, so many different guys in, playing with two tight ends, can you just walk us through it?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. I honestly can't even remember all the plays that led to scoring. I know the one we scored on Evan did a great job at the line of scrimmage, won early, and then went up and made a great play.
Yeah, tough day. Really at all levels. Injuries. Didn't win the game. It's unfortunate. So definitely bummed and hate it for some of the guys, and we'll see. I don't know. It's not my job to do injury stuff, but hopefully we can get them back soon. Just hate it for guys that are battling through stuff and seemed like just guys kept going down today.
It's part of the game, but it sucks when it all kind of happens on the same day. Just praying for those guys that they get back quick and can heal up quick. So we'll see.
But, yeah, obviously it's 12 personnel, and you are in no huddle. It's not something you really practice much. Usually you're in 11, and you have your receivers out there. We didn't have any left. We had two left, and those guys, hats off to Parker and Tim. They did a great job just staying ready.
You never know when something like that can happen. Those guys did an awesome job of making some plays down the stretch and just being ready for their opportunities.
So that's a bright spot if there is one. Just those guys playing well.
Q. If you guys have to dip down to the practice squad where you got Elijah, Austin Trammell, Josh Cephus, did they do enough good things in training camp and in preseason games where you have some level of confidence that they'll be able to step in and perform?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: For sure. Obviously I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what the future looks like, but those guys have been working really hard. They've done a nice job.
Obviously if that happens and we do have to bring some guys up, then it's about kind of getting that chemistry going again because it's been a little bit since throwing with those guys and work some stuff. It will be a big week if that is the case, if that's what happens.
Those guys have been working really hard. They're prepared. It's something that we preach is just to stay ready because you just never know when your number is going to be called. Who knows? This could be the week for some of those guys, and I have faith in those guys and how they can play.
Q. Did you feel like you had the ball far enough away from the defender that you weren't concerned about moving it on the fumble? You held it away from where he was.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I was obviously disappointed and turned the ball over there, backed up, and giving them an easy touchdown pretty much definitely affected the game. So it's disappointing.
I honestly thought I was going to break the tackle and scramble, so I kind of moved it to the other hand to get out so I could use my off hand to try to get him off me.
He made a good play and made the tackle, and somehow I don't know what hit the ball. Something hit the ball, and just have to take care of it in that situation. Even if I throw it away or check it down and we don't get it, we punt, it's still better. Puts our defense in a position where they can get a stop and prevent them from scoring. I didn't help them out there.
Q. On the play prior to the field goal, was the motion timing a little bit off?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, something happened on that. I think it hit one of our guys during the motion. I'm not sure exactly. It's kind of hard to tell exactly what happened. It happened quick.
Yeah, same thing. Just another error that we have to fix. I don't know if it's the timing, if it's my cadence, time out that motion better. Like I said, we have a lot of injuries, and we have guys going that are doing stuff that they haven't done before. We're trying to figure it out on the fly.
It's no excuse, but we have to play cleaner.
Q. Kind of a tale of two halves. You talked about the success late in the game. Early on did Green Bay show you something? You guys just seemed to struggle to even pick up a first down until midway through the second quarter.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. Honestly they did a few things a little different. I think that's every game, though. There's going to be a plan for their defensive plan for us and what we do and what they see on tape. They have a plan just as we have a plan to play them.
There's always a couple of things, but it wasn't anything crazy. We just didn't execute. I missed a couple of throws on third down throughout the game. There were some other ones where it just felt like the details weren't good enough, whether that's being on the same page in the perimeter or whatever. It just seemed like some of the details we were lacking a little bit early and some of the third downs. They made some good plays too.
We have to be able to convert on some of those third downs. I think we had two or three three and outs in a row to start the game and put our defense in a tough spot, and they were playing great.
Yeah, we've got to be better on third down. We've been better the last few weeks going into this game, and we weren't good today.
Q. You guys were 2 6 two years ago. 2 6 now here today. Can you draw upon that experience and what is your confidence level comparatively to when you guys were 2 6 two years ago versus 2 6 today?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: That's what kind of sucks as a player and being a part of the team. You see the team coming together. Where we're at the last few weeks, we've really come together and we're playing more complementary, and we're giving ourselves a chance. Obviously there are just too many mistakes today, and we didn't make enough plays tend of the game to go win it.
I do feel the team coming together. We just have to find a way to get to 3 6 and go win next week. We can't worry about what's going to come after that. We have to take it one week at a time. That's the only way we're going to get out of the hole that we've put ourselves in.
I'm honestly not really thinking about two years ago. It doesn't help you now. Obviously the experience. Maybe guys have a little bit of confidence from that. It's a new team, and we have to go do it. We can't say we've done it before, it's going to happen. We have to go find a way to make these plays at the end of the game to go win it, so yeah.
Q. You guys scored with 1:48 left in the fourth quarter. Seeing how Green Bay's last drive played out, do you think you scored too quickly? Would you have liked to drain a little more time off the clock?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: No. You've got to score. You try to mess around, and you don't score, and you don't have a chance. We were down seven. You got to score. If you have an opportunity, you punch it in.
No, I don't think that we scored too quickly. I think it's ideally, yeah, you would love to take as much time, and you get down inside the five and maybe you can run it and make them use time outs. Who knows? Whatever it may be. That wasn't really the situation we were in. I felt like we were playing aggressive. We were moving the ball great. I was seeing it. Guys were getting open, making plays. We got our opportunity, our match up with Evan, and we took it.
I think it's not the same as when you need to kick a field goal to take the lead or whatever. When you have to score a touchdown, you have to take them when you can get them. Yeah.
Q. With the injuries you don't know who is going to be out for how long, but when you're facing a reduced line up like that, the pressure to be even more perfect, is that going to ramp up less of a margin for error you guys going forward if you are going to get back in this thing?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: No. Guys just have to step up, including me. It's the same every week. Playing quarterback in this league, if you don't play well, you're not probably going to have a great chance to win. So it doesn't really change.
It's any position. You just have to play well. Doesn't matter who you are playing. You have to play together. You have to execute in critical situations. Just all stuff that we've talked about, and we have to continue to get better at it. I think we have in some areas. It's one thing. The team has to stick together, and we can't be totally dejected by the result today.
I do think we've come a long way, and we are continuing to come together and become a better team, but we have to find a way to win next week.
All the work is not in vein. We've come a long way, and we just have to go find a way to win.
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