QUARTERBACK TREVOR LAWRENCE
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025
(On training camp being here and preparing for it) “Yeah, I think it’s obviously the
preparation and the work you put in the offseason and the stuff that’s already been done.
Now that we’re at camp, it’s not necessarily the time to flip a switch. It’s kind of been on
since really post-surgery, recovery, trying to get back healthy and learning the new system.
All that stuff, I put a lot of time in this offseason making sure I’m ready to go this season. I
say that too because I have a lot of confidence in what we’re doing here and the system, the
staff, the new players we brought in, the guys that have already been here, the culture,
everything we’re building here. I really have a lot of confidence and belief in what we’re
doing and that we’re doing it the right way. I think that frees me up in a lot of ways and kind
of allows me to say that and feel confident about it.”
(On how he evaluates the first practice of training camp) “It’s better than the spring. I think
for everyone, I speak for myself, but I assume the offense feels very similar. It just feels
good to know the system and to hear the calls and to go play and to not think as much.
Feels more like second nature. So, a couple of execution things. A couple of plays that we
missed just a little bit that we’re going to hit and we have to make moving forward, but that’s
always going to happen. It’s never going to be perfect. It felt good to get back on the grass,
guys moving around, flying around, kind of getting our bodies and minds back going. It was
a good first day, competitive back and forth. Defense made some plays, offense made
some plays, and it’s kind of what you want. So, we’ll build off that and for us just to
continue to make those all those contested plays, we have to treat them like those are all
our balls. Either make the throw, make the catch, make the block, whatever it is, go make
the play.”
(On the extra work he and the offense put in during the break and how it shows up) “Shows
up a lot. There was some stuff in the spring where I was just coming off injury. Just getting
back in the flow of throwing and really wasn’t doing much field work. I just started that once
we started OTAs in addition to a lot of new receivers and getting some timing. And even with
BT [WR Brian Thomas Jr.], we only got half a season together. So even some things there I
wanted to polish up. We were able to get a lot of work in this offseason, whether it was in
the Bahamas or here, guys being in town to work out. Guys did a great job of being around,
being available, and that stuff carries over. So, when you start camp, there’s a couple of
throws a day, there were some timing throws that I felt like we were on point that you
wouldn’t get if you didn’t get the reps in the offseason just because they’re hard. You have
to throw it before the guys break. They have to trust you’re going to put in the right spot, and
you have to have that time.”
(On playing with WR Brian Thomas Jr.) “He’s great. Obviously, he’s kind of that silent
assassin. He just goes to work. That’s one thing I love about him. He’s not a big ego, look at
me guy. He just goes and puts the work in and makes plays. His speed, his one-on-one
ability, it’s really impressive. And to have him on the outside, that matchup, if they ever
want to go one-on-one, we feel like that’s a favorable matchup for us, and we’re going to
win most of them. And then to add the pieces that we’ve added, only helps that because
now you just have so much speed, so much talent everywhere and there’s a lot of
mismatches. You can’t tilt something one way just for BT or then you’ve got some other
issues. So, it helps a lot, and I just like the way he approaches his work every day, honestly.
Just the way he carries himself.”
(On when he doesn’t have an answer for what the defense presents at the line of
scrimmage) “Yeah, there’s sometimes that you know that you don’t have the answer. You
know it before the snap and that’s not a good feeling. You try to just make the best out of
the play that you can, but then there’s sometimes where right when the ball is snapped,
you’re like, ‘Oh, shoot, this isn’t right.’ And that’s sometimes either maybe I should’ve gone
to the other play or maybe it was just a look that we didn’t anticipate. There’s a lot of
different scenarios like that but either way, I think it’s managing those times because that
does happen. I think our staff does an awesome job, but there’s going to be times at some
point where we’re not in a great play. You can’t be perfect, and they trust me to do the best
thing with the ball. That’s some of the most important situations. Not to make bad play
worse, find a completion. That’s something I’ve definitely had to learn throughout my career
is not to try to do too much on a play that’s an uphill play.”
(On how different he feels physically) “I feel really good. It’s the best I felt in a long time
physically. Yeah, it sucks not playing. Not being on the field. That’s what I love to do. I love
to play. You put in all the work in the offseason and through camp then to have the season
cut short isn’t fun. It’s given me a really great appreciation for the game and how much I
love it and love being out here. Sometimes you take things for granted when you get to do it
every day and you’re healthy. You take your health for granted or playing the game for
granted, when that’s taken away for a little bit, you kind of reflect and take a step back. In
some ways, it’s been good for me. Unfortunately, I’ve missed some time, and I never want
to miss time, but I think it’s been good for some perspective things with me and myself and
how I view the game and moving forward how I want to prepare myself and how I want to
play.”
(On if he did anything different this offseason than in years past) “A lot more prehab, rehab,
therapy stuff on my shoulder, obviously after the surgery. I think through the injuries I’ve
had, you learn things and you try to really stress those areas and put them in different, I
guess, positions and uncomfortable spots, and you train those things to avoid reinjuring the
same thing. And I think you learn a lot after getting hurt as far as my body, and maybe you
look at things in our plan, maybe we didn’t address that enough and we can add some
mass there, we can add some strength there, whether it’s shoulders or lower body or hips
or whatever. There’s a lot of things you can learn from injuries and how to kind of minimize
those moving forward.”
(On the quiz he took a few days ago from Head Coach Liam Coen and if that is a common
occurrence) “No, it’s not common. It was pretty difficult. Not all the questions, some of
them were some layups, but yes there were some good questions in there, some tough
ones that kind of got us back going for camp and get the minds going. All the stuff you have
to do as a quarterback, it was good to kind of encompass our whole offense whether it’s
scheme, protections. It was a lot of stuff that was good to do one of our first days back to
kind of make sure we’re ready to go and we’ve been looking over our stuff this offseason.”
(On if this is the most difficult offense he’s had to learn) “Yeah, I would say so. I think now
looking at it going through it now for the second time after OTAs, I feel so much more
confident and comfortable in it. So, the things that I thought were difficult at first have
become more second nature and aren’t as big of a deal now. But yeah, I would say just the
amount of things you have to know, the amount of calls with multiple plays so that we can
be in a position to succeed and be in the right play, it’s more of that than I’ve ever had. It’s a
lot of motions, a lot of shifts, all those things and then just longer play calls. A little bit more
verbiage because of, like I said, multiple plays and motions and shifts but once you know it
it’s second nature. You know what everything means, and it all makes sense. But at first, it’s
like you’re trying to just spit everything back out and then put it together at the end.
Thankfully, we’re past that and the guys are rolling and feel good about it now.”
(On how he scored on the test) “I was, to be exact, 85 out of a 100. There were a couple bad
answers in there by me that I know. It’s timed too, so it’s like twelve seconds to punch in the
answer. Some of that puts pressure on you, so I had some dumb answers. And then it
glitched a couple times, at least three times on some of my answers, I’ll say too.”
(On if that was an okay grade for Coach Coen) “Yeah, it was good. It was a good grade. It
was B-plus. Not great, but B. Yeah, weighted B-plus. We’ll round up.”
(On the progression of his footwork) “For sure. Nick [QB Nick Mullens], he’s been in the
system. He’s really smart. He’s played a lot of football. So definitely can take a lot of things
that he says and he does and learn from it for sure. I mean, he’s a guy that, like I said, he’s
really smart. He plays with a lot of anticipation, reading coverages, he’s really good. He’s on
time. His feet are always synced up. So, it was something I watched early on when we
started, just his footwork because it is the same system pretty much that he was in.
Hearing him just when I first came in, his confidence and how he feels about the system is
like, man, you’re going love it. You can trust it. The progressions are great. You just keep
trusting it. Trust your feet. Stay on time. All those things. And to see to hear him say that and
to see him do it, and he’s had to play a lot in the past few years and played well, you can
see that that’s real, especially coming from someone that’s done it. It’s nice to hear.”
(On using his eyes as a weapon) “Yeah. It’s been great. Something I’ve worked a lot on in
OTAs and then in this summer break we were on. Just using, exactly like you said, my eyes
as a weapon and not giving the defensive tip on anything of where I’m going with the ball
and trying to use my eyes to move people or to open up certain windows or whatever. It’s
been something that a lot of quarterbacks do and I never really know. It’s something that
I’ve never really been taught necessarily, but to hear their perspective on certain plays and
the emphasis on certain plays to use your eyes, especially to open windows, is something
where it makes sense, but it’s just if you’re not told to do it, sometimes you don’t think
about it. And then now, learning those little things that can help make the windows two
yards bigger. I mean, that’s a huge difference in this league. So, it’s helped a lot, and they’ve
taught me a lot about stuff like that.”
(On wearing pads in some of his workout videos) “In case someone comes in and hits me, I
just want to have my—no, I’m just kidding. I usually try to throw towards the end of the off
season in pads at least half the time just because you don’t throw in pads all OTAs, all
spring. And then you come to training camp and you’re in pads, and then you play games
and you’re in pads. So, it is different. You have less range of motion. It’s clunkier. You’re
moving around, especially on the run. I think it just helps me kind of get ready to throw in
pads. It sounds silly, but you do have to practice those things.”
HEAD COACH LIAM COEN
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(On the how the first practice went) “Yeah. I think what what we were looking for was,
alignment, assignments, kind of limited some of the motions just to, hey. Let’s go get our
cleats in the ground. Let’s go play fundamental football. I thought overall, you know, semi
clean. Had a couple procedures, but it wasn’t egregious. Had a couple good hard counts
there. We got a free play, so there’s some situational stuff that came up. You know, had a
turnover on the defensive side. So, hey, it was back and forth, which is kind of what you’re
expecting and hoping for in practice one and pretty solid.”
(On WR/DB Travis Hunter playing both offense and defense in practice) “Yeah. Yeah. He
will. Probably within the first, you know, six practices or so. We’ll probably have him you
know, you want to give him a couple days offense, couple days defense, and then give him
an opportunity to go flip flop within the same practice. And then that will kind of become
the norm. Right? Like, once we do that, that’ll kind of become the norm and how we
operate, but it’ll probably be within the first week or so.”
(On if the role of WR/DB Travis Hunter is mapped out for camp) “Yeah. Yeah. The whole
camp’s mapped out. Every single moment, I don’t know if you saw during special teams, he
was doing defensive drills and fundamentals and footwork. So, you know, every moment,
every minute that he is in the building, it is accounted for and, trying to make sure that we
maximize, his time, our time so that we can ultimately get the, you know, the best
outcome.”
(On his feelings about players working together over summer break) “Yeah. It’s huge. I
mean, look. There there’s a lot of new faces and a lot of positions. And so, ultimately, you
know, for us to truly play as a team, they’ve got to get to know each other. They actually
have to enjoy one another’s company, enjoy doing it together. And I appreciate them doing
the extra, you know, some of the their own personal time, what you would call as vacation.
You know, I’m sure they had a good time getting to know one another, but also got some
quality work in which we as coaches appreciate.”
(On the injury and schedule of DT Maason Smith) “Yeah. I don’t think extremely long.
It’s not, a major issue. It’s a little bit more precautionary. You know, just tweaked it kind of
the week of camp. He had a great off season. He worked his tail off. He was here a ton. He
was in great shape. Worked his tail off, so it was a little bit of a bummer, obviously, but, it’s
a little bit more precautionary. Could he go and play in a game in this week, who knows?
But, it won’t be too long.”
(On what DT Maason Smith’s injury was) “I’m not sure if it’s disclosed. I don’t think it’s
disclosed yet.”
(On the transition of coaching and buy-in of the players) “Yeah. I think that, ultimately,
everybody wants to be coached. I think that we’ll see the buy in a little bit more in in truly
our game, you know, in our games. But in the process, they have they’ve done everything
we’ve asked them to do from an energy standpoint, communication. You know, it’s still
every day, you know, we’re continuing to improve those things and continue to, you know,
talk about it in the meetings, in the team meetings. But, you know, so far pretty solid
feedback. I think anytime there’s change, there’s ultimately, you know, things they like, and
there’s probably things they don’t like. Right? At the end of the day, we all understand that.
That’s very normal. So, you know, I think just getting to know them a little bit more on a
personal level and what they’re trying to get better at, how we can see them improve.
Anytime a player thinks you can help them, I think ultimately that’s when they start to trust
you.”
(On the evolution and evaluation of WR/DB Travis Hunter’s schedule) “Yeah. I think it I
mean, it evolved a little bit from the off season program. Right? Like, we saw there was a
span where maybe he practiced on offense. Let’s call it a Thursday because we didn’t do
anything on the Fridays. And then he had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then Monday, he
was on defense. That’s like four days without doing anything on offense. Well, we learned
that it was too long. Right? That’s too long to kind of go without doing anything on maybe
the other side of the ball, so we learned something there. And we also, within these blocks
where we’re kind of three days on with an off day, it allows us to map it out maybe a little bit
cleaner and give him more opportunities. But every single day that he is on one side of the
ball, he will meet with the other side of the ball at least once, maybe twice as well. So trying
to not let that happen where he goes offense, offense, then practice on defense, but he
hasn’t heard a single thing on the defensive side of the ball in two days. So we absolutely
learned, and I could see it continue to evolve this training camp.”
(On developments that QB Trevor Lawrence has made with his footwork) “I think today I
thought he was pretty clean in a lot of ways. It’s more so we want to get our feet to our
target, but that doesn’t mean your eyes have to be at your target. We can use our eyes as a
weapon while keeping our feet clean. That’s been something we’ve continued to work on.
Going into this year in your development, your eyes have to be a weapon, and your feet
have to be in rhythm. We know once stuff starts moving, it’s not going to always be perfect,
so if we can continue to drill that… I thought he had a good day, like I said, today, and he’s
taken to it. He was right foot up all last year and really the course of his career, and now
he’s left foot up—in the shotgun, I’m talking about. So, that kind of involves a little bit of a
different rhythm, footwork, and I think he’s done a nice job progressing that so far.”
(On if practices will be more physical in training camp) “We’re going to have to. I mean, we
only have the one joint practice, so ultimately, we’re going to have to do it with each other at
times. Obviously, you’ve got to control it and make sure we’re doing it the right way, but
yeah, we’re going to have to be physical with one another. That’s just the bottom line. Right
now, we’re trying to continue to find our edge. What is our edge going to be as a team, as a
unit, as a position group and each player and coach? What will be our edge? We need to
make physicality a part of that, and playing with an edge. We will definitely have to get after
it a little bit.”
(On working with players off to the side during practice) “Just get some more immediate
feedback. There are ultimately coaching points that happen out here that, shoot, maybe I
forget in, like, two hours to continue to remind them of. Whereas I know their position
coaches will cover it, it’s good to hear from me ultimately on both sides of the ball, hey, this
is something I’m seeing. How can we make this better? Both those guys, it was not
necessarily a mistake, it was just something that we can continue to clean up, make better,
evolve. Those guys take coaching really well.”
(On encouraging WR Brian Thomas Jr. after a drop) “Good. I mean, ultimately, we had a few
drops today, right? We had three of them I think to my knowledge. That’s part of the game.
It’s a physical mistake. He didn’t mean to do it. He didn’t try to do it intentionally. It’s
usually what happens when you lose your legs a little and you lose a little focus. So, hey,
man, let’s move on. We’ve got to be short memory, all of us at all times, speaking of myself.
Play the next play. Nothing matters but the next play. It’s so much like a golfer, being a
caddy as a coach. Next shot mentality, next play mentality, let’s move on. You can’t do
anything about it.”
(On if he’s happy with the physical condition the team is in after break) “I think it’s so hard,
we do a conditioning test and that conditioning test… The conditioning test for players is
playing the game. So, ultimately, I’m pleased with the way they came in; we’re going to have
to get in football shape still. That’s the reality. They can get in conditioning shape all they
want, but football shape is a completely different thing. I think it’ll probably take a couple of
days for us to really feel like we’re not dying out there while having to think and move and do
all those things. I was pleased with them. I think they all worked pretty hard this summer.”
(On who helped him create the training camp schedule as a first-time head coach) “That’s
a great question. You’ve been to multiple different stops, and you’ve got great coaches on
your staff to rely on, so we kind of took a few different models of places we’ve been
whether it was L.A. [Rams], Tampa, Minnesota, Seattle, a couple of different places where
our coaches have specifically been, Green Bay with Campy [Defensive Coordinator
Anthony Campanile]. And just kind of, alright, what fits us? How do we make this ours? That
was it, really. That’s how we went through it. [Assistant to the Head Coach] Jay Kaiser and
[Pass Game Coordinator] Shane Waldron really helped me out with that throughout the
offseason program. It’s something I’ve only had to do on one side of the ball with an
offensive calendar and install schedule. Now you’ve got to make and create schedules for
the entire offseason program and season. It’s a little different, but ultimately, the benefit of
having 1 o’clock games throughout the whole season with the exception of the Monday
night game is we don’t have a ton of different schedules and routines for the year.”
(On if schedule building is one of the unseen things a first-time head coach has to deal
with) “Oh yeah. Yeah, that was one of those things that you think you can kind of just copy
and paste from places. ‘Oh, well I just did it like this in Tampa, it worked, it was good.’ But
there’s different ways to skin a cat and there’s different ways that ultimately you want to
make sure that you’re maximizing time while also being fair within the schedule and making
sure that we don’t leave training camp and we’re not going into Week One with no legs.
That’s not the goal. The goal is to go into Week One with legs, feeling fresh, feeling fast and
ultimately healthy. It’s definitely a little bit underestimated and I’m glad that it’s over.”
(On balancing pushing the team but not too hard) “Absolutely. It’s definitely, especially in
training camp, one of the more delicate things you think about as a head coach. You’re
continuing to try to push and you want to push those limits of toughness and be able to
make sure that we’re getting mentally and physically tough every single day, while also
balancing that you never want anybody to get hurt. It’s like, alright, rep count, time on the
grass, recovery time, transition times, it’s absolutely a balance. You want these guys to
come out cranked up, ready to go each and every day, but it’s definitely a balance that I’m
still learning.”
