JACKSONVILLE – This aligned feeling remains positive. Very positive.
Tony Boselli increasingly has felt that since taking over as Jaguars Executive Vice President of Football Operations in January. Head Coach Liam Coen and General Manager James Gladstone joined Boselli on the most recent "EVPodcast," and this much remained clear:
The Jaguars' new decision-makers are operating as one.
"It has been a lot of fun," Boselli said.
Boselli, Gladstone and Coen joined senior writer John Oehser on the EVPodcast shortly after the end of the 2025 offseason, with Coen and Gladstone agreeing with Boselli that the working relationship between the Jaguars' three top football decision-makers has made the last few months special.
Coen discussed his relationship with Gladstone and their similarities having grown up as sons of football coaches.
"There's a natural balance of what you appreciate in players, coaches and personnel," Coen said. "Our ways of communicating are very aligned, just naturally. When you grow up as a coach's kid – in the locker room, on sidelines – you gain a little different perspective for the game, for the players and for the people in the building. It starts there."
Gladstone discussed an increased connection between he and Coen since arriving in Jacksonville, having previously worked together in different roles with the Los Angeles Rams in 2018-2020 and again in 2022.
"With a previous working relationship, you understand broadly who the person is you're stepping into the bunker with," Gladstone said. "It's showing itself in new ways, though … just the growing appreciation for the way in which he moves. One of the biggest elements there is the standards in the sense of, 'Look, these are the standards that we set and we're going to uphold those.'
"It's something I have a deep respect for, and I think everybody can have a respect for that – especially when it's rooted in all the right things and all the things we're aligned on."
Said Boselli, "What else can you ask for but to be able to wake up every day and go do something and you enjoy and look forward to it? It's not like you wake up and go, 'Ugh, I have to go to work,' or 'I have to go see Liam or James.'
"It's enjoyable. I can't wait to get there. It's a long ride. Let's enjoy."
The trio has worked together through free agency and the draft, with the Jaguars engineering one of the most high-profile draft trades in recent memory when they traded up to No. 2 overall to select for wide receiver/defensive back Travis Hunter
With last week's mandatory minicamp at the Miller Electric Center ending the '25 offseason, the trio on the final '25 EVP Podcast looked ahead to the beginning of Training Camp in late July.
"We're not naïve and being Poliannic and thinking everything's going to be great and we're going to Kumbaya every day and high five," Boselli said. "That's not reality. But it's OK to disagree and have hard conversations. We've been purposeful in sitting down and talking through not just what we're going through now, but what it's going to feel like and look like when the bullets are flying.
"We're starting understand and learn each other's personalities and communication styles."
Listen to this episode of the EVPodcast in full on YouTube or jaguars.com.
