Seahawks 20, Jaguars 12
Q. How do you explain that kind of performance coming off a big-time Monday night win? Everything you guys did to shoot yourselves in the foot, it looked like, maybe the last couple years.
TREVOR LAWRENCE: I mean, yeah. We obviously didn't play our best ball today. A lot of mistakes. A lot of self-inflicted wounds like we've talked about in the past. We've got to clean it up. We've got to be more detailed. We can't have a lot of penalties. We had a lot of drives where we started off negative, and it's hard to play in second and third and long all game.
So I think that's the obvious, right? We're doing some things, some difficult things well. Then we're doing the simple -- we're messing up the simple things and having a lot of penalties. And it's hard to sustain drives when you keep going backwards.
So there's some stuff we've got to clean up. We've got to look in the mirror and fix the problems that have really been there all year. I feel like last week we did better with some of the penalties. It showed up again this week. We've got to clean it up and move forward.
Q. Liam said there was a clear focus on throwing the ball going into the game. In terms of the discrepancy between the run and the pass, how would you evaluate balancing the two today?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. I mean, I think that was definitely part of our plan was we knew going in we'd throw more, especially early on in the game. This defense has done a good job of stopping the run, and we felt like we had some opportunities on the outside and the perimeter to make some plays. So that was part of the plan. Obviously, you want to run it as well as you can as the game settles in or as you settle into the game. Finding more opportunities there.
I felt like a lot of opportunities that I had where I could have taken some completions on first down and helped keep us out of some second and longs. So I've got to be better. I don't think I started the game great. Missed a couple throws and had some opportunities where I felt like I could have got back side and didn't.
So, yeah, there's a lot of things out there we didn't take advantage of. Obviously, we did some things in the passing game well. But more consistency. First, second down, we weren't great.
Q. Trevor, Liam stood there and said it's on him today. What was his message to you guys in the locker room?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It's on all of us. As far as his message was great with the team. It's just accountability, all of us looking ourselves in the mirror. The same thing he said to you guys, he said to us. It's on all of us. It's never on -- it's never on him. It's never on just one person. It's all of us taking accountability and fixing the things that we can control.
I know that there's a lot of things that we did on offense today that doesn't have to do with coaching. It's just players doing their job at the right time, including myself. Like just do your job, progress, make the play that's there. The penalty stuff, focus, attention to detail throughout the game.
I mean, there's things that we know better, and we didn't execute well today. So it's on all of us, and I think that's the first step is everybody taking accountability and, hey, what can I fix? Don't start pointing fingers and looking at anybody else. We've all got plenty that we can fix.
Q. Trevor, today seemed like the offense couldn't get into a groove. What did you think went wrong? How challenging is it when there's pressure and there's different things happening around you?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: It can being challenging, but it's the NFL. You play good teams, you've got to find a way to move the ball more consistently, to start faster.
To start the game, they matched our first play really well. It was good coverage for the play we ran, and they did a good job. Didn't have much there. The second play, I didn't progress on a quick game. They covered up the front side, didn't get back side, and ended up getting the holding because I scrambled center early and put Ezra in a tough spot. That's an example of something I can improve on.
From there, it felt like the first two drives were three and out. Puts our defense in a spot. Putting them back on the field over and over again, not getting points, not moving the ball, flipping the field is a big deal. There's things we've got to clean up and start games faster.
Q. Trevor, six week in at this point, are you guys past the newness of the offense, trying to, like, work with it, figure out how it runs, everything like that in game situations and all of that stuff, getting different looks? Are you guys beyond that at this point?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. This is our system. We know what it is. You have game plan stuff that's new every week, a little bit. But we're all comfortable in what we're doing and on the same page. I think some of the procedural stuff, as far as getting in and out of the huddle, getting up there was better today.
Then we had penalties on other things that hadn't necessarily showed up yet but showed up today. Same thing. It's going backwards. We've got to correct. But as far as the offense, I think guys know what to do and we know what we're doing. We just have to have a little bit more focus at times and not make the self-inflicted mistakes.
Q. Trevor, seven sacks is one thing. But all those pressures, all the knock-downs and everything, does it become psychological at that point for you when you're going back on a pass attempt? Like here they come again, that kind of thing?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: No. I mean, that's part of playing quarterback in the NFL. It's a tight pocket back there. Those guys on the other side of the ball get paid to -- paid a lot of money to rush the passer. That's their job. There's times where that's just part of it. You've got to play through it. I thought we managed some of that well today at times, made some plays down the field.
We've got to clean it up. I thought there were some times I could have been better in the pocket with some of my movement and not moving into pressures. That group on defense does a good job of moving around, trying to pick our guys up front. It can make it messy at times. I've got to be able to navigate in there and make throws down the field and find guys and get the ball out of my hands when necessary and not take quite as many sacks.
Q. Liam said it wasn't just the penalties. It's when they're happening, they're wiping out positive plays. Does it feel like that's what's halting momentum sometimes?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, that hurts. Today we had three or four big plays with a penalty, and it gets called back. Yeah, it's just the feeling of the momentum. Now we're going backwards ten yards instead of having the 50-yard play or the TD to BT or whatever it is. Now we're going backwards and it wipes out a big play.
But when that happens, we've got to respond and find a way to go score. But, yeah, you don't want to wipe out the positive plays for sure.
Q. Trevor, how much do you think they took away some of the things you wanted to do, especially down the field, with the 33 pressures and seven sacks? Could you just not get to some of it?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah. I would say sometimes, yeah. Obviously, you have shots and, like I said, the defense is trying to rush the passer. They're playing coverage, and sometimes you don't get the look you need to throw the ball downfield.
And then sometimes we had time and opportunity, and they played the coverage where it just didn't present itself. We had to check it down. I think there was a good mix of that. They did what we thought they would do coming into the game. We just didn't execute good enough.
Q. In terms of the penalties, and maybe this is more of a question for Coach than it is for you. But how do you stop? Like you said, the bone-headed penalties at the line of scrimmage, is it a matter of players getting together? Is it a matter of discipline? How would you evaluate how you can counter it?
TREVOR LAWRENCE: Yeah, I mean, it's just everyone taking ownership of their part of it. Look at today and say, all right, what can I do to improve this? How can I help the guy next to me or yourself or whatever?
I think it's more just focusing on what you can do as an individual, and I think that's where some of the things might be more of just like a lapse in focus at a certain time. Little penalties like the offsides or whatever it is, it's just that consistent focus throughout the game to where these things don't show up.
Besides that, we all know what they are. You've got to fix them. It's on us as players to just not do those things at the end of the day. You can only coach it so much. You've got to make the improvements and keep that focus throughout the game. Thanks, guys.
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