Jaguars Respond to Flagrant Hit on Trevor Lawrence

Officers penalized Engram, additionally ejecting Jaguars rookie cornerback Jarrian Jones for leaving the bench and throwing a punch. Referee Land Clark mentioned in a post-game pool report that no Texans gamers have been penalized for crossing the sector to hitch the altercation as a result of they “have been principally restraining their very own gamers.”

“Clearly Jarrian on our aspect of it may’t do what he did, both,” Pederson mentioned. “That is unacceptable as properly. The league will clearly ship out fines for each gamers and possibly some others. It is an emotional soccer sport as it’s, however on the identical time, you need to be the larger man in conditions like that. It is simply lucky that no person else was ejected from the sport.”

Whereas Clark mentioned the officers did not concern warnings towards additional motion, Allen mentioned, “The coaches informed us, ‘The subsequent violent play you are going to get ejected.”’

Pederson referred to as the incident “unlucky.”

“I’ve quite a lot of respect for [Texans Head] Coach [Demeco] Ryans,” Pederson mentioned. “I do know he does not coach his staff that manner. We do not coach our staff that manner. I am simply glad Trevor’s going to be high-quality.”

The Jaguars, after trailing 6-0 on the time of Lawrence’s harm, rallied twice on Sunday – first tying the sport 6-6 early within the third quarter after which reducing a 23-6 fourth-quarter deficit to the ultimate margin with two fourth-quarter landing passes by backup quarterback Mac Jones.

“I assumed we may have gone considered one of two methods,” Jaguars middle Mitch Morse mentioned. “We may have misplaced our self-discipline, or we may have honed in and understood the state of affairs we have been in. I assumed it was the latter.

“You actually do have a brotherhood on this locker room. It was emotionally charged there. You would be remiss to say it wasn’t. We additionally understood that you could possibly use that constructively or you may get exterior of your self after which it may have gone worse for us. I assumed we did the very best we may.”