JACKSONVILLE – This is the team, and the team's time draws near.

And make no mistake:

Head Coach Liam Coen likes the Jaguars’ 53-man roster as it stands Thursday – two days after the NFL-mandated cutdown day. And with the real stuff 10 days away, he and quarterback Trevor Lawrence are positive about where the team stands.

"We feel solid about it," Coen said of the roster.

Coen, in his first season as the Jaguars' head coach, and Lawrence – in his fifth season as their starting quarterback – spoke to the media Thursday following the team's final open-to-the-media practice of the 2025 preseason, with Lawrence discussing a "way different feeling" around the Miller Electric Center after roster cutdowns.

"It's always one of the weirdest days of the year," Lawrence said.

"You've had these guys around since spring, and you've built those relationships. You're used to having a full locker room, full practice field and then all through training camp, guys are competing, guys are trying to earn roster spots. It's just a weird reality of this that not everyone's going to make it along for the whole way. That's always the hardest part."

"But for our team, for the 53 plus the practice squad, those guys are on this team as well and they're a huge part of it.

"This is the group we have and I'm really pumped about it."

The Jaguars are off for three days, returning to the Miller Electric Center Monday to begin preparing for the 2025 regular-season opener against the Carolina Panthers at EverBank Stadium September 7.

"Super excited," Lawrence said of the opener.

"Training camp is exciting at first, then after a couple of weeks practicing against each other, you're ready to get to a common opponent. 'Let's all come together as a team, go play somebody.' It's all the excitement about all the possibilities of a new year.

"It's a clean slate, and it all starts next week."

Coen said it was "really cool" to be at the point of preparing for his first regular-season game as a head coach.

"You take the job and so much has kind of occurred since you haven't been able to play a game yet," he said. "That's ultimately what we are judged by, is wins and losses at the end of the day.

"You're really more excited to see these guys go play. Win or lose, you want to just see, 'OK, what's our resiliency like? What is our response like?' Get guys in games and typically you see one thing or the other. There are guys that will impress us that may we might not have seen yet. That's just game day, anything can happen.

"I'm just excited to see these guys go out and play with joy, with urgent enjoyment, and go play with each other and see how they respond to adversity, how we all respond to adversity."

Coen, like Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone Wednesday, spoke on Thursday of the roster as an ongoing process.

"It's always being evaluated in the way you're continuing to find ways to create an edge or fill a hole or upgrade," Coen said. "Those things do occur throughout, but proud of the guys who made it for sure and really happy to have some of the guys on practice squad that we were able to keep because we all know that show team is such a huge and important part of this thing.

"Pleased with it, we have a lot of work to do."

NOTABLE

• The Jaguars on Wednesday acquired wide receiver Tim Patrick, and Coen made this much clear Thursday: The eighth-year NFL veteran is with the Jaguars because of toughness – and because of his value offensively. Patrick, who originally signed with the Denver Broncos as a collegiate free agent following the 2018 NFL Draft, missed the 2022 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament before missing the 2023 season with a torn Achilles. He caught 33 passes for 394 yards and three touchdowns last season with Detroit, with the Jaguars trading a 2026 sixth-round draft selection to the Lions for Patrick Wednesday.

"The word 'tough' comes to mind," Coen said.

"That's pretty obvious, both mentally and physically. That's what went into the decision, getting a bigger-type body guy who can give us quality snaps. He brings a veteran maturity and has had a lot of perseverance to get to where he's at." Of special teams, Coen said: "That's not why he's here, but he may have to back up a couple positions or something like that."