Travon Walker & Robert Hainsey on Jaguars’ Focus at Bye Week | Jacksonville Jaguars

Travon Walker & Robert Hainsey on Jaguars’ Focus at Bye Week | Jacksonville Jaguars

We can start with Demetrius. Hey Trey, um you know, obviously the first five weeks of the season went pretty well. Just in terms of the last two weeks, how do you sort of prevent yourselves from panicking? Just just the losses from the the two good teams. Uh I wouldn’t say I wouldn’t even say prevent ourselves from panicking. It’s just like everybody in the in this building knows uh what we have to go into this by week to work on to fix and the the things that kept us from winning those games the last two weeks we just have to stay positive, stay together and potentially build on what we’ve been building ever since we started in OTAAS. What do you think, you know, the as far as the defense is concerned, what do you guys have to do coming out of the by-week to sort of improve? What what’s the biggest things that you think need to improve uh in order to have success? I mean, personally, like I say, just continuously stick together and buy into the plan as far as what the coaches give us throughout the game, throughout the week, and uh just go out there and execute, do our job. Everybody has to look deep down inside and just continuously improve on and ourself individually and then come together collectively as a defense to execute the play calls and things of that nature. Appreciate it, Trey. Jamal followed by Drock. What up? Uh, how’s the wrist and club treating you? Hey, it’s treating me lovely. I’m still living and breathing. That’s all I can ask for. Um, the byee this week, is this a almost like a bad timing for the bye-week? Cuz I mean, the backto-back losses, you got to kind of wait a little bit longer till you can get out there and kind of get back on the right foot, right? I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s a bad time, but obviously no one wants to go into a by-week coming off two losses like we had. But, uh, I I think it’s going to I think it’ll be can be used in a positive way just for the simple fact that we guys get healthy, things of that nature. And, uh, obviously we want to just continually grow throughout this bye-week every probably get away for a little bit, refresh the minds, and come back with a healthier mindset. Um, focused on leading into these last 10 weeks of the regular season. Appreciate you, bro. Drock followed by Shipley. Hey, Trayvon. How much is that club limiting you? You know, especially since it’s covering all your fingers, you know, can’t grab at all. Uh, I mean, it’s a club, so like you say, I can’t really grab. That’s the only thing that is really limiting limiting me from doing. Uh, but other than that, I’m not complaining. Long as I can go out there. Uh, I got one hand, so I feel like that one hand does me enough, but I know I could be a lot better with both of my hands. I will say that. How important is it for the pass rush to get home more in the second part of the season here? Uh it’s very important. Obviously, uh we haven’t been we haven’t been doing up to our standard. Um and that’s something that we want to continuously continuously improve on. So, uh that’s just something that we got to hone in on. And like I said earlier, long as we execute play calls and things of that nature, know what we’re doing, be in the right spots at the right time, then I feel like on the back half of of the regular season, that’ll take care of itself. And not able to get turnovers, I don’t think the last two games there. How much does that make it harder when you’re unable to really kind of give the offense some short fields to work? Uh, it’s very hard. Uh cuz obviously we want to put the offense in a good position to go down and score a good field position, but obviously the main thing is if you don’t get takeaways and don’t win the takeaway margin and nine times out of 10 you’re going to have you’re going to struggle uh with coming out with the win. And one more thing for me um the the continual mistakes that you guys make, the little mistakes, you know, as Coach Cohen says, beating yourselves. How frustrating is it that this team can’t seem to get past that at this point? Um, I wouldn’t say it’s frustrating obviously because I the way I look at it, it’s still early in the season. Uh, like I say, we’re going into a by-week now. So, uh, it’s time for us to just take a little step back and as we go into this bye-week and observe all the things that we continuously made those same mistakes on and just try our best not to make those same mistakes over again. Thanks, Bo. Hey, Trayvon. Thanks for doing this. Um just you know Liam’s message to us kind of yesterday was just that you guys still have you know the whole season obviously ahead of you doesn’t want to make any wholesale changes. I mean is that just kind of the way you guys are seeing it as well? You just still have a lot of football in front of you and everything you guys want to do is still kind of there. Yeah it’s not it’s not always about how you start but it’s about how you finish. Uh like we got 10 weeks left of the regular season and we’re going to go out there and make the best of all 10 of these games. Thanks. We can start with Demetrius followed by Rhino Howerin. Hey Robert, when when you um look at this team, what do you think is is sort of holding you guys back from being more consistent? Um I mean the things that show up obviously are the the penalties. Uh just those operational errors. um operation, penalties, mis assignments, those are all things that are super controllable as a group and as individuals and penalties, mental errors, they’re going to show up. It’s just the the nature of the game. But when you compound those with having to play really good teams and really what’s this? What’s this still? I don’t know. Um, when you compound that with having to play really good teams and really good players where you’re battling technique-wise all the time, like everyone’s going to get beat at some point. Um, that’s just how this game works. Everyone’s good and you’re you’re competing and you’re battling. So, what but when you add all those up, it just it becomes way too many and you just negatives the negatives just decrease your chances of continuing drives and scoring on drives by astronomical numbers every time you get one. So every time you have a negative play, you’re just you’re really fighting an uphill battle. Even if it just is one, it might not seem it’s only one play, but it almost kills that drive statistically. Sure. Yeah. And just in saying that, how do you sort of prevent um yourselves from panicking just given over the last couple weeks and and sort of how it’s turned out? Yeah. I mean, it’s not panicking. That that’s definitely not the feeling. Um because if you look at where we’re at, uh four and three going into the bye-week, 10 games left, and haven’t even sniffed our best football. We have so much to look forward to and so uh so much improvement to make. And us making that improvement and as individuals, as a offensive group, as a defensive group, and as a team as a whole is what’s going to dictate how the rest of the season goes. But the nothing you’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. You’re not trying to do anything crazy. It’s just where can you find those advantages on a daily basis in practice in the meetings in the film that is going to elevate your play as an individual which in turn elevates the play as a group. Thank you. Oh followed by Jamal Robert Ryan O’Halerin from the Times Union. I got two for you. Um on the pass protection issues the last two games granted you weren’t in the first game. Um is it guys losing their matchup on the play or does the communication need to be uh honed in on? I think it’s just it’s technique. It’s uh getting on the same level, playing together. I mean, it’s first of all unacceptable and it’s something that we need to address and improve upon. So, as a group that’s it’s up to us um in our room to make sure that we are doing everything we can to prevent those things from happening. We know we’re going to get games. We know they’re going to line up in their giant fronts and their Abby fronts and give us twists in games, especially on third down. So, when you’re in that situation a lot, they get the they get the opportunity to tee off. So making the run game go early on um from an offensive line perspective doing everything we can executing there so we can stay out of those third and longs those obvious pass situations where you know that stuff’s coming because it’s not the easiest thing to pass off but being extremely prepared for when they do come up because at some point in the game it’s going to happen. And last for me is in times of adversity like the last couple weeks how does Liam come across the team as being honest but not sounding overly negative? Yeah. I mean, I think I mean I think his honesty is not overly negative because there is negative that shows up, but there’s a hell of a lot of positive, too. So, when you’re being honest and honestly evaluating and he looks at it, he can look at us and honestly say, “Hey, we need to clean this up.” But we’ve done some really good things. And when we’re playing at our best, we’re a very hard team to beat. That’s the honest truth. how we clean them up. Like that’s like I was saying that’s us individuals improving to elevate the level of the team. Robert Jamal. Hey Robert. Uh the timing of the by-week, I know you guys probably had two games in a row that you wanted to get back. I mean, do you feel like this is good timing because it gives you a little time to clean it up or is it a long bye week because now you’re kind of chomping at the bit. You got to wait another week before you can go out there and do it. Um, I think in general like the by-week when it comes is one of those things that’s out of your control so you got to roll with it. I’ve had later by weeks. I’ve had super early by weeks and it sometimes it almost never feels like it’s a good time cuz there’s always something you want to be working on. Um, but nonetheless, regardless of whether where you’re at like where we’re at coming off those last two games that for sure we want to improve upon, how can we make this the most productive week possible? uh as players and coaches take our time, reflect, figure out what we’re going to really want to do when we get back in here next week and and be ready to hit it hard because we we got a long stretch coming up of good games that um our improvement is going to make a huge difference in. You were in Tampa with Liam last year. You learned this offense last year. Are there any similarities to like the growing pains you’re seeing in Jacksonville to maybe some of the stuff you saw last year with Tampa? Um, maybe a little bit. I’d have to maybe think about it more, but it’s always every season you could you could play the same with the same group for five seasons in a row and you’d have growing pains quote unquote every year and they’d be they could they’re always going to be slightly different. Since you’re always trying to we’re always we’re all going back to the same basics or fundamentals. fundamentally sound, situational masters, um, attacking and tough. Like, those are the things we got to be when it comes to the scheme and how things are rolling. There’s throughout the playoff, throughout the rest of the season, throughout the playoffs, the postseason, you’re always constantly improving. So, there’s and constantly trying to improve. So, it’s super I think it’s very individualized as what those what things are going to come up for every team in the league because there’s not a single team who’s not trying to fix something today. Does that make sense? That’s perfect. Appreciate you, Robert. This will be our last one. D-Rock. Hey, I got booted off, so apologies if Jamal asked this question already, but I’m just wondering, did you guys in Tampa last year have the same kind of um issues early in the season in terms of the mistakes? Is that what he just asked you? Yeah, that’s what he just asked. Did you hear my answer or do you want me to expand? I just heard a a short part of it, but if you as answered it already, that’s not a problem. I’ll just get it off the transcript later. But I do have uh another question. Um would you call this group this team um a physically tough team still after the last two weeks that that was your identity the first five weeks? Has it changed at all? No, I think I mean if you if you really watch the film and you watch how we play like we play hard, we play tough, we play physically tough. And what you’re seeing is what I’m thinking that you’re seeing is the last two games how much obvious pass we’ve been in and how many times we’ve thrown the ball. And it’s gets kind of it’s you still have to play physical in the pass game, but from outside looking in, when you think physicality, you think moving the line of scrimmage, running the ball, and when you don’t get the run game going and you cannot we were excellent at early in the year that we’ve not not regressed, we just haven’t continued that standard, I think. And so getting back to that is important because that is our identity when you’re playing like that. It’s felt on the sideline, it’s felt on the field, the other team feels it, and you you you can tell that they feel it, and that’s how you wear your opponents down. Um, yeah, thanks both. Mhm. This will actually be our last one. We can do one more quick one. John Shipley. Hey, Robert. Just, you know, talking about starting fast, how important are those first downs, especially early in the game for kind of setting the tone and putting you guys in those run situations? Yeah, I mean, very, you definitely, it’s you really want to be able to establish the get those first downs, establish the run, and make everyone feel confident in getting back to it. uh you know going out three and out to start twice is not great because then you’re all then all of a sudden you’re down 14 points a bunch of times off the clock and it’s like all right now now we got to establish a run but we’re already in a place where we have to play catch-up. So starting fast, finishing strong. I mean, there’s no point in the game where it’s like, all right, we can chill here. That doesn’t exist. But that’s some that’s again something our first few weeks we we came off uh we’d start with the ball, go down, score, and getting everyone you get in that rhythm. It just gives you a lot of confidence going out going out to the next drives. Thank

Jaguars DE Travon Walker and OL Robert Hainsey speak with the media on Tuesday of the bye week during the 2025 NFL Season.

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