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Trevor Lawrence dejected by offense's sloppy training camp: We've got to get better, cleaner
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Too many penalties, too many balls on the ground and not enough urgency to cut out the mental mistakes.
Those were what handicapped the Jacksonville Jaguars ' offense during the team's second scrimmage of training camp, the first at the Miller Electric Center this summer.
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Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence summed up the takeaway from today's scrimmage perfectly:
"There's always a little bit of that in camp," Lawrence said after practice on Aug. 14 , about mental mistakes and pre-snap issues. "But the amount we've had has been a little too sloppy for the offense than we want."
Among the roughly 14 offensive possessions split between four quarterbacks, Lawrence drew half of them, including a possession that began after an interception.
Lawrence and the first-team offense ultimately finished the scrimmage with just one three-and-out, but also only one touchdown drive.
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The Jaguars also had too many unforced, mental errors during their pre-snap process across all units, with five penalties offensively and five on the defensive side of things.
After practice, Lawrence didn't hold back when asked about how the session went and what the team needs to do to improve.
After acknowledging the competitive nature of the scrimmage, Lawrence didn't have many positives to extract from the day. The first-team offense finished the first drive with a touchdown. That was it.
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"From there, the defense picked it up a little and we had some mistakes, just self-inflicted wounds. Kind of been the story of camp, trying to clean up some of that stuff, pre-snap," Lawrence said.
"Just got to clean up the operations, the mistakes that the defense doesn't inflict on you, you do on yourself. We just got to get better and cleaner. But I thought there was some good competition, guys flying around. So, there were some good, some bad. We'll learn from it all."
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Lawrence finished the scrimmage, completing 17 of 27 passes, according to the Times-Union .
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The Jaguars have struggled with mental mistakes and pre-snap penalties since referees were allowed on the practice field during training camp.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen has mentioned multiple times, including after the team drew eight flags during the first preseason game, that they must improve the mental mistakes and prevent yellow flags from flying.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) receives the snap from offensive pass game specialist John Van Dam during an NFL training camp session at the Miller Electric Center, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025 in Jacksonville, Fla. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union]
He said earlier this week that he hopes the team's players are taking the penalty issues to heart.
"I'd hope so. Ultimately, we're not playing the game as coaches. We can only say so much at some point; the players do need to take the ownership of being out there," Coen said. "So much of what we talked about is until we kind of don't beat ourselves, then we're not going to probably be able to consistently beat anybody."
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It appears Lawrence is taking it to heart, looking to improve in that area as the team moves forward through the rest of training camp and into the season.
"If we want to be a great offense, you have to be really smart, not make those mistakes that hurt yourself. Obviously, execute. And I think the execution has been actually decent once the ball is snapped, but the other stuff before the snap, you don't ever get a chance if you don't do that right," Lawrence said.
To his point, the Jaguars have generally looked good after the snap, but there's been far too much dysfunction ahead of the snap for any of it to matter. Whether that was due to urgency getting lined up, like on the first snap of the game last week against Pittsburgh , which began with a false start.
"So, there's been some stuff that we just have to lock in on the details," Lawrence said.
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"For me as a quarterback, have to operate a little cleaner. Let's get up to the line faster so guys can communicate and think and have time to process and remind each other of the cadence. All those things. It's all of us in it. We just have to be sharper."
Trevor Lawrence feels footwork changes are becoming second nature
Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski couldn't nail down a singular thing that Lawrence has improved the most on, but he did speak about the operation as a broad area of improvement for the fifth-year signal-caller.
"I try to count all the things that he improved on and appreciate all of them," Udinski said.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) greets cornerback Jarrian Jones (22) congratulating him on his final defensive play of the 12th period after an NFL training camp session at the Miller Electric Center, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 in Jacksonville, Fla.
"I think when we look at the operation of the offense and his control of the line of scrimmage, the cadence, some of those things that we're still working to improve as a unit, but his personal growth is evident in that stuff, the footwork, some of the reads, playing fast, completion. So there's a lot of things and it makes it tough to pick one."
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Lawrence has had to adjust physically and mentally since Coen took over.
He's had to operate with a different footwork, learn an entirely new offense and playbook and adjust himself in shotgun. For instance, Lawrence's lead foot is his left now instead of his right.
The QB said it's becoming like second nature since he began the adjustment
"It's starting to feel a lot more comfortable and natural. I'm not having to think about it. I'm not having to say, okay, what's my footwork on this play? None of that stuff anymore, obviously. So, I feel comfortable with it. Some of the mechanical stuff that you've done for years — just the way you hitch, the way you transfer weight and some of that stuff — takes a little longer to train out," Lawrence said.
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"But we do such a good job of working it in Indy [individual] and all the periods that aren't team periods to where I'm starting to build that muscle memory where I see it carrying over."
During team periods, Lawrence said he's not thinking about it anymore.
The Jaguars will return to practice on Friday, Aug. 15, before traveling to New Orleans to face the Saints in Week 2 of the preseason.
Demetrius Harvey is the Jacksonville Jaguars reporter for the Florida Times-Union. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @Demetrius82 or on Bluesky @ Demetrius .
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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Trevor Lawrence: Jacksonville Jaguars offense must clean things up
