JACKSONVILLE – The positives were many.

Doug Pederson on Monday spoke to the media a day after the Jaguars' first victory of the season. He spoke positively of quarterback Trevor Lawrence – and multiple other areas, too.

Among the overriding themes?

"Protection," Pederson said.

Pederson, the Jaguars' third-year head coach, indeed focused as much on the Jaguars' offensive line as anything else this week when discussing a 37-34 victory over the Indianapolis Colts – and for good reason.

The line not only held the Colts without a sack, they didn't allow a hit on Lawrence.

"It's rare," Pederson said as the Jaguars (1-4) prepared to play the Chicago Bears at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London Sunday. "Usually, that doesn't happen. You're going to get hit a couple of times, quarterback hurries, things of that nature. They did they did a great job keeping him clean yesterday, and Trevor did a great job of distributing the football.

"It's just a credit to the O-line, just paying attention to detail, focusing on your job and just the things we've been talking about with the team."

The game marked a second consecutive strong performance for a line that has improved steadily this season, with Lawrence following Sunday's victory saying: "The guys honestly this whole year have done a good job protecting me."

Lawrence completed 28 of 34 passes for 371 yards and two touchdowns, completing an 85-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. and a 61-yard pass to wide receiver Christian Kirk.

"It's the NFL," Lawrence said. "It's never going to be perfect. You're going to get hit sometimes playing quarterback in this league. That happens."

Lawrence added of Sunday’s hitless/sackless game, "Hats off to those guys. It doesn't surprise me at all, but it's cool to see it happen and to be back there and just have the confidence of the group in front of you that they're going to do their job well and keep you clean, and you have the time to distribute the ball and get it downfield and we have a shot."

All five starters – left tackle Cam Robinson, left guard Ezra Cleveland, center Mitch Morse, right guard Brandon Scherff and right tackle Anton Harrison – have started all five games this season. The line started six different lineups last season, and never started the same five for more than five consecutive games.

Pederson, who talked often last season of the need for continuity on the line, reiterated on Monday a point he made Sunday – that that continuity can't be overlooked as a reason for this season's improvement.

"The O-line played good as a group again," Pederson said. "From a scheme standpoint, you kind of get back to your core stuff. Those five guys playing together, there's the continuity, there's the rhythm, there's the timing of blocks, the combination of blocks. We can do a little bit better coming off to second level. But these last two games have been good for the offensive line."

NOTABLE

• The Jaguars have struggled at times in pass defense this season, particularly Sunday. The Colts scored 24 fourth-quarter points, with quarterback Joe Flacco completing 7 of 9 fourth-quarter passes for 183 yards and two touchdowns. Flacco threw for 359 yards and three touchdowns Sunday. "We have to make sure we as coaches do the right thing for the players, making sure we put them in good spots," Pederson said, "but at the same time too, we have to have really good communication in the back end. Sometimes we're getting some busted assignments back there. Those are in critical moments, and we have to fix those. We just have to keep working and pushing through it. I think it's really close to opportunities to create some takeaways. We just have to keep going."

QUOTABLE

• Pederson on third-year defensive end Travon Walker, who had three sacks Sunday with five sacks in five games this season: "I think this [defensive] scheme benefits him. He has embraced and really bought into [defensive coordinator] Ryan [Nielsen]'s philosophy and the scheme and the attack style. He just continues to improve each week. I like where he's at. That's just him, and that's what I see during the week, how he prepares during the week and it carried over to the game Sunday."