JACKSONVILLE – They want to run and must run. They must do so together.

If that has been a key Jaguars theme in recent weeks, it absolutely remains one around the Miller Electric Center as they leave the bye and enter the second "half" of the 2025 NFL season.

The run is a team thing and must be approached that way.

"Everybody has a job to do in the run game," Liam Coen said.

Coen, in his first season as the Jaguars' head coach, spoke to the media Wednesday as the Jaguars (4-3) prepared to play the Las Vegas Raiders (2-5) at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas Sunday. He emphasized the same point as players did later:

That reestablishing an identity as a physical, running team is critical to their fortunes the rest of the season.

"We want to be the most physical," Jaguars right tackle Anton Harrison said. "We want to dominate defensive lines. It starts with a mindset. We all know what we want to do. We really just have to go out there and do it.

"It starts with technique and a mindset of going out there – us five, six, the tight ends, the wide receivers – and knowing we're going to run the ball and no one's going to stop us. That's the mindset we have to have. That's the mindset we had starting the year.

"It doesn't matter how many games we're in. We're going to have to do it the last game of the season. We just have to get back to that, get back to that mindset and we'll be all right."

Coen has emphasized being a physical, tough team since his January hiring. He has emphasized the run as part of that, with the Jaguars performing well in this area during a 4-1 start to the season that left them tied for the best record in the AFC.

The Jaguars, who now rank 14th in the NFL in rushing at 119.7 yards per game, through five games averaged 137 yards per game rushing with a run-pass balance of 28.2-34.4 per game. They averaged 76.5 yards per game during their current two-game losing streak – losses to the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams – just before this past Sunday's bye with a run-pass balance of 19-52 per game.

"I think a lot of it has to do with just getting back to balance," Coen said. "Any time you're balanced, you'll typically have an advantage to the opponent, where they don't know it's a typical run down when you're calling it or it's a known pass down, you're calling a run, it's a known run down, you're calling a pass."

The Jaguars also trailed throughout the entire second half against the Seahawks and Rams, minimizing the ability to call run plays.

"It all ties in," Coen said. "It does take all 11. When you watch the self-scout throughout the games that we really ran it best, everything was tied in.

"It's not going to be perfect in the run game, but if you're coming off the ball, you're playing physically, your backs are hitting the holes the right way and you're calling it more and calling it at more opportune times, the run game typically has more success."

Center Robert Hainsey missed the Seahawks game with a hamstring injury, with linemen such as right guard Patrick Mekarii, left guard Ezra Cleveland and Harrison playing through various injuries early in the season.

No Jaguars lineman appeared on the Jaguars' first post-bye injury report Wednesday, which Harrison called "definitely important."

"Getting a little bit healthier up front helps," Coen said. "Being off a week and getting these guys feeling better, to where we can get back to running the football, creating a little bit more movement up front, just creating a little bit more of an advantage … different variations can help as well, but just getting back to running the football a little bit more, a little bit more violence."

Coen added that he didn't expect personnel changes on the line.

"Changes were not really necessary, I don't think," he said. "It was just getting a couple guys feeling a little bit better."

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