HEAD COACH URBAN MEYER
(On the status of James Robinson…) It’s a bruised heel. He’s going to get looked at tomorrow
when we get back. I don’t know the depth of it.
(On his general assessment of the game…) Just disappointed. Obviously, we’ve got to play
better, we’ve got to prepare better. I didn’t see that coming. I saw a good week of practice, guys
were fresh off a bye week. We got down 14-0 and we got out of a . . . we’re not built to just be a
throw team, and we got out of the run game, and then the penalties were nonsense. I don’t know
if it was the noise or what was the problem. But we’ve got to get that corrected.
(On if this sloppiness today resembled the play of Week 1…) I felt like every week we made
great strides. I thought the team got better and better and better. Today was a step back. We tried
to build on the momentum of the win, because we played pretty decently in London, and
offensively Trevor had one of his better games, and offensively we played better, and
defensively we played better. We just went backward. On the positive, we held them to 60 some
(rushing) yards, got three sacks – our defense just kept swinging. Just placed in horrendous field
position. The defense hung in there against some talented receivers and talented players.
(On Trevor Lawrence’s play…) I’ll give you more next week after I watch the film, but
quarterbacks have a great day when the players around him play great. I can think of a couple of
drops off the top of my head, some accuracy issues. We’re a team. We do everything together.
So we’ll come back next week swinging hard.
(On if the early drops played a significant role in the outcome…) I don’t know if it was the
environment. It didn’t seem like offensively we were out of a rhythm. James (Robinson) went
down, but Carlos (Hyde) is a good back. We just didn’t have that balance, and then you start
getting behind on the scoreboard a little bit and you start doing things you’re really not built to
do.
(On if in that situation it hurts not having a big playmaker…) We have enough playmakers not to
let that happen to us. We’re going to continue to go back to work and get some momentum
going.
(On if he’s concerned that this occurred after a bye week…) We had Myles (Jack) come back,
we self-scouted. Yeah, like I said, I really felt we had a decent week of practice. The attitudes were fantastic going into it. Obviously, it just didn’t start well, and then that second quarter got us in trouble.
(On why, after not attempting a two-point conversion, he called for an onside kick…) Yeah, I
should have kicked it deep. We kind of had that discussion on the sidelines. They wanted to try it
and work on some things, get another possession.
QB TREVOR LAWRENCE
(On if this feels like a step back after the progress the team had made…) Yeah. I think a lot of
the stuff, we need to go back and watch the game and be honest with ourselves, make some
corrections and just move forward. I know I didn’t play well enough today and as an offense, we
just weren’t clicking. A lot of things go into that. I think it’s really just taking accountability for
everyone’s part and what went wrong. For me, third and fourth down, I think I had two missed
throws on third down and one on fourth down. Guys that are open and not giving them a
catchable ball, I think that’s all on me. So there was three right there. And then guys just making
plays when you need to make plays. That’s me on the third and fourth down, that’s receivers on
some catches, it’s everybody. [Offensive] line, running backs, tight ends, everybody. We took a
step back I think in making the plays that we need to make as far as just, good teams do that and
good players do that. It all starts with me. I think that’s the main point where we start and I think
just moving forward, just trying to keep it simple to where we just play and let our guys be the
players that they are. I think that’s where we’ll all just have to go back and watch it and see what
we can do to get better. I don’t think this depicts the team that we are [with] how we played
today. Just one of those days where we couldn’t get anything going. Seattle did a good job of
running with that momentum from the very beginning. I never felt like we were flowing our
offense. I thought the defense actually played pretty well today and we didn’t help them out at
all. Got to play better for sure.
(On if it was miscommunication on the interception…) Yeah, yeah the angle. Me and Tavon
[Austin] talked about it. It’s one of those, probably just leave it flatter, something that we had
talked a little bit about. That’s one thing, communication is so important in this game. We got to
be on the same page. Stuff like that can’t happen, whether it’s the throw or the route or whatever.
That just can’t happen. We’re driving and I think we were down by seven and we’re driving and
on the 50 yard line and then we get the turnover. It kills our defense and the momentum that we
had. Stuff like that we have to fix, like I said. But that’s all of us, me included. We got to get
better.
(On if the noise or the atmosphere a factor in the game…) Definitely, definitely a tough place to
play. The issues today didn’t have a ton to do with the noise. A little bit on a few of the play
clocks getting low. Maybe there. But overall, that’s not really what made a huge difference. It
was just our execution wasn’t great. But definitely a tough place to play. Even towards the end of
the game, the game was kind of already put away, we’re going on our two-minute drive and
they’re still roaring and it’s still hard to hear. The fans did a good job.
(On the offense struggling after James Robinson got injured…) Obviously when a great player
like him goes down, it hurts. You rely on guys like him. Obviously, when a play is there, he’s
going to make it, but also make plays out of sometimes nothing being there. He’s a guy that can
do that. But I thought Carlos [Hyde] and Dare [Ogunbowale] did a good job when they came in
and had their opportunities. I thought they did a solid job for sure. It was just kind of everything
else along with that. Obviously, I didn’t help. But there’s just so many other things that were
problems too.
(On if he’s more concerned that this happened after a bye week…) I think it just goes to show if
you don’t come out ready to play and you don’t play well, this can happen to anybody on any
week. It doesn’t matter who you’re playing, you just have to play well and we didn’t. It’s not
concerning, for me it’s not. Because I’m in that locker room, I’m with all those guys and see how
hard they work, how they prepare. I know probably from the outside looking in, it might be. But
it’s not concerning, it’s just we played like crap today. That’s going to happen every now and
then, but we can’t let this happen again, for sure.
(On if this is the most physical beating he’s taken all year…) Cardinals was a pretty physical one
too. I would probably say that one is probably first but this was close, probably second. Same
thing, it kind of felt like some of those early games where you get behind and we’re having to
really air it out and that just lets those guys pass rush. It makes it really tough on the [offensive]
line when the [defensive] line can just straight pass rush and they’re not worried about the run.
So that’s something where we have to manage the game better and we have to put drives
together and get points because when you don’t, you give the other offense that many
possessions and they start scoring, the defense can only hold up for so long. Then you get behind
and you have to start throwing it way more than you’re running it. And there goes your balanced
offense and it makes it tough. That was kind of part of it today too, but we all had a part in that.
DL DAWUANE SMOOT
(On Urban Meyer making defensive changes this week) I know we played pretty hard this week,
we practiced pretty hard this week. There was just some key adjustments that we missed during
the game, and it just didn’t work out for us. It didn’t go our way.
(On Geno Smith) I feel like it was just a lot of 50-50 balls. A lot of plays that we could have
made. He played great, honestly. We started rushing him, we knew he’d start holding balls. I
think our rush got him. We’ve just got to win those 50-50 matchups.
(On if this loss today was a step backwards for the Jaguars) I don’t think it’s a step back. It’s
tiny, fixable things. It’s things we can work on, and just fix. I think that we’re definitely going to
take a step forward going into this week, and just make sure that we keep our head down and
focus on our next opponent.
(On if the mistakes today are concerning for the defense) You’ve got to understand we just came
off a bye week. We didn’t have as much time together. It’s just a new schedule. We’ve just got to
get back into the groove of it all and figure it out.
LB MYLES JACK
(On having 12 men on the field on back-to-back plays) In this league that should never happen.
There’s no excuse, we have to have better communication coming off the field. Obviously, it’s a
hectic environment. There’s D-linemen running on trying to get the play. There has to be
communication, and if you are running on the field you have to go 1-for-1. You can’t just run on
the field and say ‘Hey, it’s my turn to play.’ It’s a lot of things, it’s the timing of the substitution,
it’s guys not communicating when they come on. It’s such an easy thing to fix. It’s not like it’s
something hard. Raise your hand, you know who you’re supposed to grab when you’re coming
in. Everybody knows what they’re supposed to do, we’re just not doing it.
(On how big of a set-back this game is) You guys saw the score, it’s not what we want to put up
there. It was 17-0 at half. There are a lot of things that we have to do better. I can only speak for
the defense. We have to get threes instead of sevens. If we’re on 3rd down we have to get that
stop. If it’s 2nd and long we have to keep them there, not bail them out. It’s a lot of stuff that
we’re self-inflicting. That drive that we had 12 players on the field, we were still battling.
There’s a lot of positives, but we have to fix some things. Especially if you lose the way we lost.
We have to fix some other things. It’s on us.
(On being more crisp off of a bye week) I would definitely think so. It’s the craziest thing, we
had our best two weeks of practices. Honestly, I can truly say that, and the coaches would
probably say the same thing. Everybody was locked in, guys were communicating, the energy
was there defensively. We did really well, until we got to the game. There’s going to be fire
drills sometimes but we have to be able to weather the storm. We just didn’t do that today.
DE/ OLB JOSH ALLEN
(On what happened in the game today after a successful week of practice) We’ll know once we
watch film. Honestly, I can’t say anything right now about it. We’ve got to watch the film when
we get back. It’s going to be a long flight, a lot of time to self-reflect and talk to guys in there
and talk to coaches. It sucks.
(On if this game shakes his confidence) No, no. It was really one quarter of bad football. If you
look at the stats, look at the numbers, we played great football. It was just that first quarter. You
take that first quarter away, that team has zero points. We just have to do a better job of starting
off fast, not even do a better job, we just have to know and put ourselves in situations before they
really happen so we can make the plays. We just need to get back in that playbook and just get
better individually.
(On if he feels this performance was embarrassing) I guess. It was definitely a bad loss. I feel
like we had two weeks of those practices, and I feel like we were doing a heck of a job. Just to
come out of the game the way we did was depressing and embarrassing. Like I said, if you look
at the rest of the game and not just look at the score, we played statistically really good. We got
to the ball. They only thing we’ve got to do better is get takeaways. If we get one of those, we
won that game, I believe. Like I said, we have to go back in the playbook and correct ourselves.
Look at each other individually and have ownership into the plays we missed. I believe I missed
a couple plays. Once that play is over, you’ve got to move on to the next one. That’s what we
have to do a better job with. Not even play calls, it was penalties. We had a lot of penalties in the
first quarter that set us back even more. Doing a better job of not forcing those penalties. Like I
said, I believe we played good football in the second half. We came out. No we just have to play
10-strong, like Coach Urban (Meyer) always preaches. Play 10-strong on offense, defense,
special teams. We all have to have ownership of what we need to do, and I feel like we are going
to get back to it, we are going to fix those things, and we are getting back on our track.
