Jets 32, Jaguars 25
Q. Davante, what did (no microphone) 100th touchdown of your career?
DAVANTE ADAMS: Well, it was a lot going on with that. So I thought, honestly, I can't tell which play was better because the first one felt like I was about to get stuffed in the backfield. To be able to get out of that and basically sniff the end zone, that would have been cool. To come back with the fade, it was kind of like a little bit of, you know, he and I versus just like a scheme play.
Q. Did he tell you he was going back to you?
DAVANTE ADAMS: No, but I know. You know certain plays just based off the look. Like last week at the end when he threw the fade at the end to try to get into field goal range, that route that I had is not at all a route that -- typically, that's a route that if he's off coverage, I'm going to get the ball.
In that situation, I'm never supposed to get the ball. Probably four times in my career he's thrown it. There was no doubt in my mind in that moment he was coming there. It's kind of that telepathy, I guess you could say. But, yeah, it was good to be able to get in there. Teammates were gassing me up all week about it so I think they were probably more excited than I was, which is obviously a great thing.
So it's good to get it, and almost had 102 there, which would have been cool.
Q. Did you go down on purpose there on the almost 102?
DAVANTE ADAMS: I don't know, honestly. I don't know. Every step I took, I was thinking -- because we have presentations. One of our coaches does a presentation on situational awareness, stuff like that. Last week, I caught the ball, got pushed out of bounds. I'm thinking the whole time I'm running, there's a lot of space right here. I don't think the corner was even paying attention. He was looking at whoever was out in front, I think it was G.
And I'm just running, and I'm thinking, like, am I supposed to score right now or am I supposed to go down? And it just opened up and I'm like, damn, I got a decision to make. Once I went in, he kind of tackled me. I figured it would be good to get another time-out off of them. But I don't know, honestly, still if I was trying to go down or not. I think I was trying to score, but there was some indecision there for sure.
Q. What did you see on the 71-yard touchdown? What did you see on that?
DAVANTE ADAMS: Well, we've run that play a lot, a lot. Like a lot since 2019 or whenever Matt LaFleur's first year was, '18, one of those years. It's been too long now.
I've never -- based off the coverage, I run the route differently. Over the course of my career, I've never caught the ball on that one based off that coverage. So today there was a few that were a little bit backwards to what normally happens on the field. You kind of just got to just keep playing. We got a coverage open, middle of the field open. The middle backer was running. He was the Tampa player, and he was going basically to take away that.
Once I saw the safeties get real width like that, it was just a foot race. I look back and I see the ball up in there, and I was just, like, wow, this is about to be a 70-yard touchdown. Lo and behold, we got it.
Q. What happened in the second half? I don't think you had a touch in the first half.
DAVANTE ADAMS: I did not. I dropped one so that doesn't help. They don't usually give you a catch if you drop it. I think we all had kind of a weird energy -- it wasn't really the energy. It wasn't like we didn't have energy going on the field, but it was just things weren't really clicking the way that we intended them to.
Came back in and just talked to one another and really it was just a matter of just getting back out there. T.D. called some great plays for us to be aggressive. Aaron gave me one of those looks and said we're going to need you this half. Came out and was able to make some plays.
I'm sure you guys could understand, you get in a groove sometimes, it's like that ball is kind of -- like your hand's like a magnet to the ball. That third down, he throws it out here, see it for one quick second and catch it on the side of your head. That's some of the stuff you've got to be in a groove for.
Thank God I made a few plays before that to be able to pull that in. It was a good day. I wish we'd have been able to have more success in the first half to not make it so close. It's all about finishing it out, which we haven't done enough of this year.
Q. Davante, this team's had with you a lot of close calls, six points or less losses. Is there any kind of human nature element to thinking to yourself, after a day like today, like where's this been all year?
DAVANTE ADAMS: Yeah. I mean, winning is hard in this league. It's tough. Like you say, we haven't been getting blown out. I think the Cardinals is the only game you can say we were out of it. And even then, I felt like we just were so close, we were even driving that game.
So it's about being able to execute at the right moments and we did that today. And in the past, whether it was offense, defense, special teams, whatever, somebody didn't. And, you know, you need all three phases.
Q. When you and Aaron are in such synch like that, in the second half, does it take your mind -- does it feel like old times?
DAVANTE ADAMS: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Today was one of those days in the second half. Definitely felt very, very similar to the way we used to get it rolling. You can almost -- I mean, y'all will never be able to feel this. But being in the huddle with Aaron, it felt a lot different.
Obviously, with him being mobile now and not having the hammy nagging him the same way it was when I first got there, him being able to be on the run like that, I think teams are starting to play us the way they were when he wasn't. He'll make you pay. He not running a 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, maybe even a 4.6, but all you got to do is continue our spurts. You'll be all right. He's still got that.
Q. You had 135 yards receiving in the last four minutes of regulation, which is the most in the last 25 years.
DAVANTE ADAMS: Wow.
Q. Can you just describe -- you've done a lot of things in your career. But to be able to do that now, in such a close game.
DAVANTE ADAMS: Football is crazy, man. We were just talking about it. It's like the only sport where you can come out -- going in the half, team scores right before half. Then come out, get the ball again, and literally the whole game is different. It's just about making plays at the right times.
Sometimes it's just this big of a difference, the ball being here or your hands being there. So we've had opportunities to maybe make teams pay the way we did today, but just being able to execute is the -- that's the hard part. We did that and got some favorable coverages to the plays that we were running. And sometimes it's getting lucky with the scheme, knowing what they're going to be. Sometimes it's getting lucky based off the coverage and just making it work with the opportunity you have.
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