Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence made his highly anticipated NFL debut during his team's road Week 1 opener against the Houston Texans. After three years of near-flawless play at Clemson, Lawrence had one sluggish showing in his first taste of NFL regular season action.
Lawrence simply had a roller-coaster outing in his first start with the Jaguars. While the Jaguars quarterback recorded 332 passing yards and three passing touchdowns, he did throw three interceptions in the 37-21 defeat to Houston.
More so, this was the first regular season loss of his entire football career.
Today marks the first ever regular season loss for Trevor Lawrence in his life.
That’s through high school, college and NFL. pic.twitter.com/ki9Tt8iAT4
— StatMuse (@statmuse) September 12, 2021
Lawrence is not used to coming away from games on the losing end, especially as he finished his run in Clemson with an overall 34-2 record as a starter. But he did reflect after the game on this season-opening loss for Jacksonville.
“I mean, obviously it leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you don't win, but I mean it's a cool experience but yeah it's when you don't win the game, it's not a good feeling,” Lawrence said.
“I know I'm gonna respond well, you know I've made the right stuff, so I don't have any doubt about that, but it is frustrating and I hate losing. Hate losing and so we're going to get better, but that's all you can do. It's watch the tape, learn from it, get better and move on.”
The former Clemson star took plenty of responsibility for the loss, and in the big picture, he sees that there is much work to do at this early stage in the season.
“It's a mix of everything,” Lawrence said. “I think that's something we got to talk about is, you know, a team and office, coaches, everybody we got to just figure out what to do better there, definitely some stuff we got to clean up too many penalties.
“Like I said turnovers, it's all made three turnovers like you're not gonna, you're not gonna win many games with three turnovers, especially when you know margin was minus-three for us so it's not good to give them one right before the half.
“That's just not great, so a lot of things we got to do better, but like I said, you got to watch them and correct them and then move on.”
Lawrence will have a golden opportunity to bounce back from this performance, as four of the Jaguars' next five games will be at home. This may be a critical period in what could be a possible NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year-winning campaign for him.
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