JACKSONVILLE – They're hungry, tested and back in the postseason.

But while Sunday marks the Jaguars' first playoff appearance in three seasons, this is not a raw or inexperienced team when it comes to the most pressurized of NFL circumstances.

Many of these guys have been here before, and that matters.

"I don't see anybody allowing this game to be bigger than what it is," Jaguars linebacker Devin Lloyd said.

Lloyd spoke Monday as the AFC South champion Jaguars (13-4) prepared to play the wild-card Buffalo Bills (12-5) in an AFC Wild Card Playoff game at EverBank Stadium Sunday, with the Jaguars having earned their way into the postseason by winning their final eight games of the season to win their third AFC South title in nine seasons.

The Jaguars enter the postseason as the No. 3 seed in the AFC and won the South by a game over the Houston Texans (12-5), who won their final nine regular-season games.

"This group has really dug in and really treated every week like a playoff game," Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen said. "[Quarterback Trevor Lawrence], I think, said it best [Sunday]: We were in must wins to win the division and to be in the situation that we're in. We kind of treated them all that way and it was 1-0 each week.

"The no-flinch, no-blink mentality of playing four quarter football games and for 60 minutes or longer is the mentality."

The Bills enter Sunday as one of the most-experienced teams in the 2025 postseason, making their seventh consecutive playoff appearance and having won six consecutive AFC East titles from 2020-2024. They played in the AFC Championship Game following last season.

The Jaguars, who narrowly missed the postseason in 2023 before finishing 4-13, have 14 players who played in the 2022 postseason – their most recent playoff appearance. They also feature 15 veterans signed since '22 who have played in the postseason with other teams.

"I'm sure the intensity level will be up-ticked a little bit, but I think our guys will be ready for it," Coen said. "We have enough veterans and enough players on this team that have been through difficult games – difficult years, good winning years, winning teams.

"Ultimately, when you have leadership like that and you have continuity, they can then give that information and some of that knowledge to the younger players that haven't been through it.

"That's why you probably see some of the ability to be mentally and physically tough."

Coen and players this week discussed the difference between the regular season and postseason, with Coen citing an age-old adage that the game speeds up in the playoffs: "It may be a little faster. It may be a little bit more physical."

"That's just kind of what you feel when you know it's one and done, when you know you're in a game that it's win or go home," he said, with center Robert Hainsey adding, "It definitely does kick up a little bit, but this is exactly where you want to be."

"This is why we play the game is to get to this opportunity and it's just another opportunity," Hainsey said. "It's the next one, it's the most important one, and we've got to do everything we can this week – like we've done all year – to put ourselves in the best position to win this game through our technique and fundamentals, through our planning, through our preparation.

"Those are the things that are going to matter more now."

Lloyd, a starter as a rookie on the '22 AFC South Championship team, said the Jaguars' experience is such that he expects the team can handle the moment.

"It is a lot of new guys, but we have good leadership from the core that's been here," he said. "Everybody's so focused and dialed in. It's obviously a big game for the franchise, but for us it's attacking the process. And I'm sure we're going to come out ready to play with the right energy understanding that this is a big-time game, but it's a big game because it's the next game.

"We've been talking about just understanding what playoffs are going to be like. For us, I think everybody knows what this is going to be, what this experience is going to feel like. It's just a matter of getting to the game. It's another opportunity we get to go play football. I think the outside wants to make it elevated and for us, it's about having a mentality that every game has been a playoff game for us.

"It's just about attacking the process and finding a way to go play our best ball on Sunday."