“It was real good,” said Young, who jokingly estimated he totaled six sacks Thursday. “Everybody was tired. We communicated, we still were getting off the ball. I love what we put on tape today because it just showed how tough we were.
“We need to make mistakes. We need to be in situations where we’re not sure, so we can make our mistakes now. We can respond negatively now so in a game, we get in that same exact moment, we’ll be able to respond better.
“I think we played good ball, man. We definitely made a few mistakes but overall, I’m sure the coaches will be happy. I know I’m pretty happy.”
Likewise, Shough was pleased with how the offense operated.
“You don’t necessarily want to use the other team as a metric but at the same time, it’s also a competition-based sport,” he said. “I think it was a good day to focus on us as an offense and I feel like we really improved.
“And I think more than anything, it was good to go against a really good defense in the Jaguars and continually we’re going to be able to do that in the next couple of games against the Rams and Cowboys. We feel really good where we’re at but we also know that we have so much more to go. We’re nowhere close to where we need to be, but we also know we’re kind of light years from where we were last year as well.”