Trevor Lawrence on what clicked for the offense in the second half of the season
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence discuss how the Jags offense was able to get going in the second half of the season. Trevor Lawrence joins on behalf of Zevo. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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It felt like to me, and you can tell me if I was wrong about this, felt like first half, second half, two pretty big splits there.
Felt different.
walk me through what happened in the first half, why things kind of felt like it got better in the second half.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of factors that go into it.
I think just in general, when you have a new, new staff, new system, a new offense that all the guys are running, you know, it take- it's a little bit of a learning curve- Mm-hmm.
-especially this system compared to what we ran in the past.
Yeah.
It's a, it's a big change.
So to get comfortable with that takes some time.
and obviously, you have a lot of work in the off-season, but until you have, you know, live bullets flying and you get to learn from real reps and games, sometimes it takes a little bit longer to click than maybe you would anticipate.
So I think that's a big part of it.
I think also with our offense, we, we really figured out who we were about that halfway point in the season.
What's our bread and butter?
What are, you know, certain guys on certain routes and different plays we like, and, all the things just started to click.
I feel like as we started to play with a lot of confidence as an offense in the passing game specifically.
You know, we ran the ball well- Right ... all year.
Yeah.
But I think in the passing game, that's where it took a big jump.
Just the confidence that I had in the guys out there, they're making a bunch of big plays, and then them, that they had in me to put the ball where it's supposed to be on time.
Guys trusting the details of the offense and the system, and you saw it start to pay off as towards the end of the season.
No doubt.
And when you say, like, that bread and butter, this is who we are as a passing game, now that you kind of feel like you, you've figured that out in the second half, what, what would you describe that identity as?
Yeah, I think it, it changes, you know, week to week.
There's You have to do more of certain things, less of certain things.
Mm-hmm.
But I would say just having that consistency.
Jacoby was a huge part of that, too- Totally ... as far as that consistent guy over the middle, making the contested catches over the middle, being able to attack the middle of the field.
and then Parker, a lot of the, the yak and the, the run after the catch that he was able to create at the end of the season was huge.
To create some more explos- explosive plays.
We weren't having to just take shots to create explosives.
Yeah.
We could throw it across the middle, catch and run for twenty, as opposed to just having to throw a deep ball.
And then BT was also able to stretch the field vertically.
Mm-hmm.
So we kind of were able to piece it together and, and, move guys around to where we It wasn't obvious necessarily what exactly- Yeah ... we were wanting to do every play, and those guys were versatile enough to change it up, but that became our bread and butter and, and where guys really excelled.
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All right, Trevor Lawrence, appreciate your time, man.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Have a good off-season.
Appreciate you guys.
