JACKSONVILLE – Liam Coen likes a lot about what he's seeing.

That wasn't true about everything this past Sunday, particularly at game's end, but the second-year head coach said it's absolutely the case when it comes to how he feels about the Jaguars entering their 2026 Week 7 bye week.

The Jaguars are alone in first place, and Coen likes their direction.

"I have a lot of confidence in this football team," Coen said Monday.

Coen, speaking a day after the Jaguars' 34-31 loss to the Houston Texans at Wembley Stadium in London, discussed multiple topics – including his assessment of Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence thus far this season.

"Six games in, I've been very pleased with Trevor Lawrence," he said.

Lawrence, after finishing fifth in NFL Most Valuable Players balloting last season, has 14 touchdown passes with four interceptions this season. He completed 24 of 41 passes for 306 yards and four touchdowns with one interception Sunday.

"Trevor gives me so much confidence on a weekly basis as a play-caller," Coen said. "The way he's seeing it right now and playing, I'm very excited about this football team."

The Jaguars trailed 24-14 early in the third quarter Sunday after the Texans scored touchdowns on their final first-half possession and first second-half possession. The Jaguars then rallied from two 10-point deficits – 24-14 and 31-21 – to tie the game 31-31 on kicker Cam Little's 60-yard field goal before Texans kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn's 49-yard field goal as time expired.

Jaguars running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. rushed for 55 yards on 11 carries, running back Bhayshul Tuten caught two touchdown passes and wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter had a touchdown reception and an interception on back-to-back fourth-quarter series.

"You never want to lose, but I am glad we're able to respond in terms of the mental toughness of the group when it's not perfect or everything's not going exactly according to plan," Coen said. "They just keep playing their tails off."

"To be six weeks in, and to feel confident that your team is going to respond, that we're made of the right stuff to respond … we have so much football left that you're excited about. You're excited about being able to be in those moments again and maybe do it right or do it better the next time."

The Jaguars (4-2) enter Week 7 bye with a two-game lead in the AFC South ahead of the Texans (2-4) and the Indianapolis Colts (2-4), who lost to the fourth-place 1-5 Tennessee Titans, 26-20, in Indianapolis on Sunday.

Coen on Monday also discussed:

Having Little kick from 60 yards on fourth-and-4 from the Texans 42-yard line rather than going for the first down. Little's kick was good with 1:55 remaining, with the Texans driving 36 yards for Fairbairn's game-winning field goal:

"Every decision, it's a coach's decision," Coen said. "I ended up doing that. There's always hindsight. You say, 'We don't get it, we're going to get a stop either way. If we go down and go down by six points, now we have to go score a touchdown.' I felt like we had just got the turnover (an end-zone interception by Travis Hunter), maybe we put a little pressure on them on the other side of the ball. But [Little] gives you so much confidence to be able to be in those moments regardless of end of game, end of half, you feel like you have a shot."

An offense that produced four touchdowns, 412 total yards and 24 first downs Sunday:

"I was pleased with the offense's response in a lot of ways. To move it effectively throughout, I never really felt like we were just static or couldn't move it. They should take confidence from some of those things."

The Jaguars' No. 1-ranked run defense allowing 114 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries to the Texans:

"I thought their backs made some good cuts and we missed some tackles. As a coaching staff, you look at how can we continue to help provide answers throughout the course of a game for some of those things. And also, our play style has to show up each week. It just does. Getting off blocks, playing violent, swarming around the football, and doing some of those things, which I'm not saying we didn't do all game. I thought it showed up. We had more runs on us than normal and that's something that we take pride in. It's one of the pillars of our defense. When you get the ball thrown over your head at times, now that allows for the whole playbook to be open as an offensive play caller, and those are some of the things that showed up. It definitely wasn't our standard, that's for sure. Good, humbling day."