Jacksonville Jaguars Postgame Quotes 10/20

Postgame press conference
Sunday, October 20, 2024

(On if the team responded how he wanted after being down 10-0 early)

“I thought it was a great job today in dealing with the adversity. Every game you’re going to have some momentum swings every week. They scored early, and then we ended up punting on our first possession. Then they went and got a field goal. Offensively we knew we had to settle in and just get some points, get some positive plays going, and we were able to do that. We scored, and then I felt like after that our defense really settled in. That’s how you play complementary football is settle in early like we did in the second possession, and then our defense was able to really pin their ears back. Once we got control of the game, I thought we did a nice job of offensively of keeping those possessions really long. I don’t know what the stats were, but it felt like we had some really long possessions that chewed up a lot of clock. We can do better on scoring on all those possessions. I know that one turnover on downs down there inside the 15 was disappointing to us, but I thought we did a nice job of using the clock. We ran the ball great today, so that always helps.”

(On what changed from last week to this week)

“Yeah, this sport is kind of crazy. I don’t know. We had a great week of prep. This season, though, we’ve had good weeks of practice and not played well on Sunday, though, so I won’t say that that’s always — that doesn’t always mean that you’re going to play really well. It makes it easier. It’s hard to if you don’t have a good week of preparation in practice. So, I thought we had a good week of preparation. I thought that just the energy of practice was good. Guys were having fun. Obviously, it sucks kind of where we were at and haven’t won as many games as we wanted to win, but we had a lot of fun. We competed, and I think just being around our teammates, that helps. We…