Pittsburgh Steelers 31, Jacksonville Jaguars 25
Q. ...first on the drive.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It's good to get back out there. Just to be a live-game setting, felt good. Felt good to be back out there. Some stuff to clean up, you know, operationally. A couple penalties, especially our drive to start the game. Got behind the sticks early in the first play, obviously, a penalty and got in second and first or second and long with the later penalty of the drive. So some of that stuff to clean up, setting us back a little bit, having to get back on track. But I thought there was some good stuff out there. Like always, like I said there will be a lot of stuff to learn from the tape and we'll learn from it.
Q. Was that first drive enough to get your feet wet and get back in the flow of things?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, it's like these games, you know you're not going to play much. It's kind of like you get in a rhythm or you want to get in a rhythm, but it's just so short. It's hard to get a flow. It would have been nice to -- obviously once you get out there and get playing, you want to keep going but I think they're doing the right thing, being smart, keeping guys healthy.
But it was good just to see the offense go in a real game setting, live. Protection, run game, finishing and then obviously all the procedures and penalties. You get out there, all that stuff is magnified. All the little mistakes that sometimes aren't always caught in practice because we don't always have, you know, full official deal. So I think that was a good thing for us to see like hey, this stuff is critical and can set a drive back if you have a big penalty and playing behind the chains.
Q. How many of a comfort level is it to have Cam knows he's got unlimited range? Does that help you play calling-wise? Does it help situationally to know you have three points in your pocket?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, it's unbelievable, especially be the new kickoff deal, more returns, you know, leads to typically better field position and if it goes in the endzone you get it at the 35. With him tonight, what is that? 10 yards away from the field goal? I don't think we're going to be kicking 70-yarders in the first quarter or anything like that, so we would like to get him a little closer but unbelievable to see him make that. He's an awesome guy, awesome player, obviously. But, yeah, that's huge. Especially those two-minute drills. If you can get it near the 50, you got a really good shot. Having a guy like that is a weapon.
Q. First time you've been hit, I think, since December, since the hit here. Does it feel good to get that and just brush it off and go back to being normal?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, like I said at first. For me, just getting back out there where you can get hit. You don't have the red jersey on, feeling the pass rush settling in there and guys did a great job up front. That scramble up the middle and they did a nice job but, yeah, feels good. That's real game stuff, getting hit and not having the red jersey on, so it was nice to be back out there.
Q. How intentional was it to get everybody a touch, get them all the ball?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, you know, it is intentional. We have so many play makers. You want to get them all involved and early and let guys get the rock and do something with it, so I think that is intention fall for sure and there's time where is the ball just kind of finds guys more than others. I think in games like this, obviously you want to spread the ball around, you want to get guys touches, get them rolling, kind of see what we can do.
But obviously had the one drive so it's really hard to evaluate beyond that but, yeah, I thought the guys did a good job when their number was called.
Q. (Inaudible) would do kind of simulate in your mind what you would like to detail?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: For sure. It's the same offense, you know. Obviously it's not me the one out there running it but it's the same offense. Hearing Liam call it and the tempo and what he's thinking and taking all those mental notes throughout the game of just what we're doing and obviously not game planning stuff for the pre-season, but those situations are personal to him, how he's calling it and to play it, try to play it as real I can from the sideline and just bank extra reps. I think that's the biggest thing, watching every play and try to see what decision I would make.
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