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Press Pass | Lawrence: "It's a lot better to be able to learn from a win than a loss" · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You overall thoughts on pulling that one after.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it feels good to win first season opener
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  Speaker 2: of one here. So it feels good, especially in this stadium.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't had a ton of success over here lately,
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  Speaker 2: so it feels good. I mean, that's a good team,
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  Speaker 2: presented some challenges for us, you know, offensively, pretty sloppy game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: some some good points in the game for us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we made some plays. We ended up making the plays
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  Speaker 2: we had to make to win. Defense really kept us
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  Speaker 2: in the game. You know, I thought, so I'm only
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  Speaker 2: giving up fourteen points. We put them in a bad
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  Speaker 2: spot a few times where they got some huge stops
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  Speaker 2: and you know, turnover on down some some turnovers. It
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  Speaker 2: was big. It was great to see them pick us
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  Speaker 2: up when we needed it. Obviously, it wasn't a super
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  Speaker 2: clean game offensively, there's a lot of things to clean up.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, can't be too upset with a win.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to win in this league and division game two,
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's big for us. Good start.
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  Speaker 1: You chalk that up kind of not maybe all the way,
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  Speaker 1: but just week one. I mean, everything's kind of new.
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  Speaker 1: Do you kind of cast a little of that aside
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  Speaker 1: because of Week one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, week one is more challenging sometimes for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different reasons. I mean sometimes, you know, defenses might
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  Speaker 2: do things a little differently. Not to say that the
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  Speaker 2: Colts did, you know, I think they stuck to who
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  Speaker 2: they were and they just did a really good job
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  Speaker 2: of making things difficult up front for us. Those guys,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's one of the best fronts, especially the
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  Speaker 2: interior in the whole NFL. Those guys are really good.
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  Speaker 2: They make it challenging for you. So they do some
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  Speaker 2: really good things. They're back end played sticky, they did
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  Speaker 2: a good job, they're really sound. They just did a
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  Speaker 2: good job. They put us in a lot of second
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  Speaker 2: and third and longs, and that's harder obviously from an
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  Speaker 2: offensive perspective. Your your call sheet shrinks a lot when
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  Speaker 2: that happens. So we got to do a better job
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  Speaker 2: of being efficient on first down, We got to be
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  Speaker 2: better on third down, gotta be better on fourth down,
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  Speaker 2: I mean all the downs. So but yeah, obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more. It's a lot better to be able
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  Speaker 2: to win, to learn from a win than a loss.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's still wins, a win and crazy play.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead or anybody kind of.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody kind of rallied behind him. Obviously, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a weird play. It's like it's tough obviously,
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  Speaker 2: get get hit and you don't know if it's a
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  Speaker 2: funbar and completion, and you know, we we teach our
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  Speaker 2: guys treat every loose ball like it's a fumble because
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  Speaker 2: because that and he even recovered it and then just
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  Speaker 2: standing there and they punched the ball ou because the
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  Speaker 2: wrapped it below of the whistle. So that's a crazy
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  Speaker 2: play and one to learn from it. To shame having
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  Speaker 2: to a rookie, because that would have been a tough
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  Speaker 2: play for anyone. Really, you recover and then you end
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  Speaker 2: up getting it punched out, So yeah, just you learn
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  Speaker 2: from it, you move on. And that just shows the
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  Speaker 2: faith that we have in him to put the ball
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  Speaker 2: back in his hands there and you know, to give
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  Speaker 2: us that big touchdown and go up ten at the end.
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  Speaker 2: So doesn't concern He's gonna keep learning, obviously, he's a
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  Speaker 2: rookie and I think he did some good things today,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep getting better.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit. Like you guys have had some up
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  Speaker 3: and down early and then you were able to finish
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  Speaker 3: like that at all.
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  Speaker 2: To you, I mean a little bit. Obviously, I think
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  Speaker 2: we started the game better besides the first drive we
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  Speaker 2: had a three and out, you know, which you want
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  Speaker 2: to start better than that. But you know, we scored
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  Speaker 2: a couple of touchdowns early, put a little pressure on them.
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  Speaker 2: They answered. Then our defense really really bowed up, and
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  Speaker 2: then we just got sloppy in that kind of the
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  Speaker 2: second and third quarter, even the beginning of the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: and we just got sloppy. And I think we could
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  Speaker 2: have taken advantage of more things out there and really
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  Speaker 2: put ourselves in even better position obviously going into the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game, just to put them away, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't do that. But it's it's harder than if.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, they're not gonna lay down, you know
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  Speaker 2: that they're doing. They got the same job we do,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna make it challenging for us. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a good football team. And yeah, so it was a
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  Speaker 2: good game, and obviously it's it's better when you can
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  Speaker 2: find a way to win.
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  Speaker 3: So much about the positive publicity in this preseason has
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  Speaker 3: been tailored toward the offense, the feeling that this offense,
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  Speaker 3: but today it just felt like the defense in the
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  Speaker 3: second quarter when those three consecutive stops kind of set
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  Speaker 3: the tone and maybe, you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say bailed you guys out, but certainly complimented.
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  Speaker 2: They played great. Yeah, I mean, that's that's the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's three phases. It's not about If it was all
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  Speaker 2: about the offense, you know, we would have been in
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  Speaker 2: trouble today, you know, and and same thing in different
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  Speaker 2: games if it was all about the defense.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's we pick each other up. We feed off
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  Speaker 2: one another. That's what makes teams great, and we got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to do that. There's gonna be a week
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  Speaker 2: where we're gonna have to pick our defense up. This week,
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  Speaker 2: they got some huge stops for us that we really needed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had some bad possessions in a row,
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  Speaker 2: and they were able to come through and get a turnover,
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  Speaker 2: turnover on downs, just get to a stop, make a punt,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. They played great. Hats off to them.
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  Speaker 2: I think they played they played with that chip on
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  Speaker 2: their shoulder, like like you want your defense to and
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  Speaker 2: it was cool to see him fly around and make
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  Speaker 2: some huge plays for us years.
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  Speaker 1: But do you remember your first start in NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously with Dacan Ridgardson is today it's some good, some bad.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get catch up with him.
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  Speaker 2: At the game and then him Yeah, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: made some great plays. Obviously, it's being a rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a tough spot. There's a lot of learning
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  Speaker 2: you have to do, and it's just every week learning
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  Speaker 2: and getting better. And the only thing I told him
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  Speaker 2: after the game was a great, you know, great game.
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  Speaker 2: He made some some unbelievable plays, but just try to
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  Speaker 2: protect yourself. You know, these the hits add up in
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  Speaker 2: this league and they're a little different than in college.
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  Speaker 2: So I just told him to protect himself. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch his career unfold. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a great player, and obviously we'll see him
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  Speaker 2: again later in the season. But that was my only
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  Speaker 2: message to him, really, just putt yourself. It's a long
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  Speaker 2: season and I think I think he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: great player. Yeah, like obviously, like today, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: I can't really state how valuable it is to have
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  Speaker 2: a guy like chat not only on the field, but
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  Speaker 2: just the guy he is off the field. It's such
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  Speaker 2: a good leader, consistent I mean well, I mean one
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  Speaker 2: of the most consistent guys in our team. Doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if he's a starter, if he's not starting, if he's
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  Speaker 2: a swing guy, whatever, he comes to work the same way.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why you need a guy like that. And
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  Speaker 2: he's so valuable for us. He can play center, he
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  Speaker 2: can play either guard. You know, he did a great
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  Speaker 2: job filling in when he needed.
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  Speaker 1: To make Calvin Ridley's performance obviously touchdown one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: some yards.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. Not not a surprised to me, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it was to anybody, but he played great.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was cool to see him, obviously in
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  Speaker 2: his first game back. I'm sure he was amped up
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go and just to to play well
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  Speaker 2: and uh make some huge plays for us.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome. Thank thank you all appreciate it.