JACKSONVILLE – What's done is disappointing, but what's next is what matters.

Liam Coen made that clear when speaking to the team following the Jaguars' first loss of the 2026 regular season, and the second-year head coach made it equally clear in his day-after message Monday.

"We have to move on and respond; that's what it really comes down to," he said.

Coen spoke to the media Monday, a day after a 20-13 loss to the 1-1 Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo., moved the AFC South-leading Jaguars to 1-1. Cornerback Jarrian Jones spoke shortly thereafter, calling responding to the loss, "Very important."

"I think that it was good for this to happen," Jones said. "Now we have to hone in on us. It's all about us, and if we execute and commit to our play style and things we do, it's going to be hard to beat us. I think it was good we had a wake-up call like this."

Added center Robert Hainsey, "It's the NFL; you're not going to win every game. And what you can take from it is, 'Where can we get better? Where can we improve the plan? Where can we improve as individuals? Where can we improve our play style and our effort and our finish, those things?'

"It's something we take a lot of pride in. We're always going to be looking for those areas to improve."

The Jaguars, who entered Sunday having won nine consecutive regular-season games, led the Broncos 13-3 in the third quarter. They produced 56 yards offensively after that with quarterback Trevor Lawrence throwing a third-quarter interception that led to the tying touchdown and kicker Cam Little missing a 54-yard fourth-quarter field goal. The Broncos scored on three consecutive possessions and drained the final 4:41 on their final possession.

"We all kind of took our turns," Coen said, with Jones adding, "We didn't earn the right to win."

"It's the NFL," Jones said. "We left too many plays out there. If you talk to anybody on the team, I don't think anybody in particular played their best game."

Coen on Monday also emphasized the need to be "better in practice," noting that the Jaguars "didn't have our best practices last week on Thursday and Friday, specifically on the defensive side of the ball."

"I'm not saying it was putrid by any means," he said. "It was just there were a little bit too many completions happening. The 'show' team had a little bit too much time. We addressed it and it kind of carried into Sunday in some ways.

"It's a clear line for our team to see, like, 'Guys, practice matters. [If] we don't dominate practice it's going to be really hard to go dominate an opponent and go play a high-level opponent. It's really what it comes down to. I know it's CoachSpeak, but if we don't do it throughout the week of practice, it's not going to just happen on Sunday."

Added Jones, "You have to practice like what's going to happen in the game, so if you are lackadaisical in practice, you're going to get lackadaisical with the details in the game."

Sunday's loss marked the first of two consecutive games for the Jaguars against 2025 division champions, with the Broncos winning the AFC West last season. They play host to the defending AFC East and AFC Champion New England Patriots at EverBank Stadium Sunday.

"We have to be extremely accountable to each other, to the things obviously we could improve on or where we fell short," Coen said. "We have to be accountable. We have to connect, reconnect. I'm excited to see us respond. I'm excited to get back on the grass on Wednesday with this group and get back to work.

"The message, especially some of the younger players, rookies, is, 'Hey guys, this isn't the college football playoff where you lose in Week 2 and you might not make it.'  We have a lot of games ahead of us and we have big opponent, quality opponent coming into Jacksonville this weekend."

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The Jaguars on Sunday continued their early-season approach of rotating cornerbacks, with Travis Hunter playing 59.7 percent of snaps, Montaric Brown playing 79 percent, Jarrian Jones playing 62.9 percent and Jourdan Lewis playing 51.6 percent. "It's by drive with those guys rotating in," Coen said. "We did it for the most part of the last season as well before Travis got hurt. It's something that we have to continue to do. We have corners we have confidence in. Those guys can all make plays for us. They can all communicate for us. They've been in the system now. We have to play it better, for sure, but we also got to get to the quarterback to help those guys out as well in the back end. So It's a rotation based on pregame. We have it all laid out. The players know it. They all know the rotation. It has been clearly laid out to them what the expectations and standards are."