Doug Pederson 'Not Concerned' Over Jaguars Offensive Line

The sky isn't falling for Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson.

Week 2 saw the Jaguars have their second-worst offensive performance of the Pederson era, with the Jaguars listing 17-9 to the Kansas City Chiefs and failing to score a single touchdown. A big reason for the loss, though, was an offensive line that the Jaguars were sure would be better than the national perception.

On Sunday, they weren't.

“I’m not concerned. I’ve seen these guys work together. One thing about the offensive line, one it’s a cohesive and close group," Pederson said on Monday.

"Five offensive linemen need to play in unison with one another, there’s got to be great communication. It starts with Luke [Fortner] and of course Brandon [Scherff] to Anton [Harrison] and Bartch out to Walker [Little] and all that."

The Jaguars allowed four sacks and seven quarterback hits vs. the Chiefs, with All-Pro defensive lineman Chris Jones recording 1.5 sacks and six pressures alone vs. the Jaguars' unit.

With Trevor Lawrence under pressure, the Jaguars' franchise passer was just 3-of-9 for 26 yards -- a meager 2.9 yards per attempt.

"One of the things yesterday that I was proud of and we focused a lot on was identification and communication, that was one of our talking points with the team because of what Kansas City’s defense presents. They’re a pressure team," Pederson said.

"It felt like coming out of the game that the identification and communication was great, but the execution failed. This is where we have to go back and evaluate it from a coaching perspective and say, ‘Hey. Are we doing too much? Do we have too many protections? Do we need to scale back just a little bit? Do we need to rep more of one thing in practice?’"

But despite the loss -- which saw four of the Jaguars' five linemen allow three pressures each -- Pederson isn't showing any public signs of concern for the unit. They are far from the only offensive line struggling, after all.

"There’s a lot of different things that we look at, but not concerned about the offensive line," Pederson said. "It does take a little bit of time, I think if you look around the NFL right now, there’s a lot of offensive lines that due to injury or they’re trying to figure each other out, that’s where we are right now.”

“Yeah, it’s Week 2, we’re all still figuring things out," Jaguars left tackle Walker Little conceded on Monday.

"We came in, we had a good gameplan, we just got to execute better as an offensive line. We had a lot of great plays out there as well as the whole offense did, but we also had a lot of things that we got to clean up. We watched the tape and we’re talking about it. The biggest thing is that we know we are a good group, keeping that confidence, and just moving onto the next game. Moving onto Houston, learning from this as much as you can but don’t dwell on it."