How Trevor Lawrence is Learning from Playoff Lumps

Trevor Lawrence will be better for it

The stat sheet won't be kind to Trevor Lawrence's performance against the Buffalo Bills. His Jacksonville Jaguars fell just short in the Wild Card showdown, 27-24. He finished with 238 total yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions on 18-of-30 passing. Jacksonville got the ball back with just under a minute left in the contest, but the game effectively ended when Lawrence tried to squeeze the rock into a tight window to Jakobi Meyers.

Tre'Davious White tipped the pass up, and Bills safety Cole Bishop came down with the pick to seal the win for Buffalo. It was a brutal end to an otherwise admirable effort from T-Law, one that erased all of the goodwill he built up this season in the minds of a lot of viewers. Jacksonville media asked him what he learned from this loss and his first postseason defeat at the hands of the Kansas City Chiefs three years ago:

"I want to watch the tape and kind of see what happened. But I think in any playoff game, mistakes are always magnified just because it always comes down to the end. You don't see a lot of blowouts in the playoffs. Everything is on the line. Everyone is fighting to keep playing. So whether it's turnovers or turnover on downs — we had three of those, I guess, today total — those add up, and those take points off the board... I've got to be better, cleaner there."

"The reality is you take points off the board, these games are going to be one-score games, and you're going to need them at the end. I wish we played cleaner in certain areas. I wish I made one or two decisions a little bit differently, threw a better ball here or there... That's a bummer, but I know that we left everything out there. I know I put everything into this this year, and it sucks that we don't get to keep playing, because it's a special group, and people don't get to keep watching us, and our fans have been awesome all year. I guess to answer your question... the attention to detail is so important and taking care of the ball is magnified, all those things.”

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