Remember when the Jacksonville Jaguars were flying high at 4-1 following the big prime-time win over the Kansas City Chiefs? That seems like an eternity ago as the Jaguars dropped their second straight game to fall to 4-3.
With a win today, the Indianapolis Colts now lead the Jaguars by two games in the AFC South.
“It’s on me,” Jaguars’ head coach Liam Coen said.
“You wouldn’t have guessed that we were here for a week prepared, ready to go play in this atmosphere by looking at it in terms of the way we started the game.”
The Jaguars were – again – in London to play a football game and this time it was a loss to the Los Angeles Rams 35-7.
Jacksonville Jaguars kill themselves with “self-inflicted wounds”
Quarterback Trevor Lawrence had a decent day statistically, but he still can be painful to watch. There is something extra difficult to watch when a guy has prototypical everything and he still just isn’t very good. We’ve been watching him do this for five years now.
“It’s not like we didn’t have a good plan or anything like that,” Lawrence said. “Some self-inflicted wounds. If we can clean that up and just stay on schedule, we have to make those corrections and do it, but I think that’s where you are seeing the slow starts and then we’re getting behind.”
Lawrence was 23 of 48 passing (47.9%…ouch!) for 296 yards and one touchdown.
“Against a good team like L.A., when you get down 14 points right away because you start slow and have some three-and-outs, it’s tough sledding from there,” Lawrence continued. “We have to find a way to get back to starting the game faster, on schedule, and just play ball.”
Rookie’s first big game comes in Jacksonville Jaguars’ blowout loss
No. 2-overall draft pick Travis Hunter hasn’t been bad so far in his career, but he hasn’t been worth the trade up from number five. Some have opined that Hunter simply needs to pick a side of the ball and be great at that, rather than try to be a stud on offense and defense.
But, today Hunter had a big day, catching eight balls for 101 yards and a touchdown. He said the team’s mistakes aren’t easy to correct, but “It just comes with football.”
“We just have to do better,” he said. “The most-disciplined team wins. They just out-disciplined us. We have to be focused and locked in more. We have to be professional and do our best to be professional.
“A lot of us didn’t do how coach taught us and it came back to bite us. We weren’t fully locked in and we have to do better on that part. We had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. We just have to do better. We just have to continue to trust each other.”
Coen acknowledged that this loss is very frustrating for everyone.
“But just like everybody else in there, you have to look inward first,” Coen said. “What am I doing as the head football coach that’s not clear right now? How am I communicating these things? How am I and how are we practicing these things? That’s what I’ve got to look at.
“I’ve got to look at the whole thing, ultimately, but not going to stand up here and blame these players. It starts with me.”
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