JACKSONVILLE – The past is the past, and the future is what matters.
Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen and quarterback Trevor Lawrence made that much clear Monday, speaking to Jaguars Media at the Miller Electric Center during an off time for players and an important offseason time for coaches:
While 2025 was really cool, the focus is now on moving forward.
"That's the reality," Lawrence said.
The Jaguars are five weeks removed from a 13-4 AFC South Championship season that ended with an AFC Wild Card home loss to the Buffalo Bills. While they're nearly two months from the beginning of the 2026 voluntary offseason program, with players off until then, Coen and the rest of the coaching staff are at the MEC self-scouting and preparing for 2026.
"This is going to move faster than it did last spring," Coen said.
That's partly because the Jaguars' coaching staff – which retained coordinators Grant Udinski (offense), Anthony Campanile (defense) and Heath Farwell (special teams) from last season – will have less time at the MEC and less time with players than last offseason.
Teams with new head coaches begin their offseason programs April 6, while offseason programs for teams with returning head coaches begin April 20.
"The continuity with the coaching staff being back for the most part, that part's great," Coen said. "What you have to realize is we've got less time as a coaching staff in this building this offseason. There's no question. We'll be here less than we were here last year at this time.
"What you have to understand is, 'We have to get better. Just because we're here doesn't guarantee it. If we aren't efficient with our time throughout the day and make meaningful contributions to the self-scout and to the personnel meetings, we won't get better.'
"The same goes with our players when they get in the building here. The amount of time that we have with the players on the grass and in the meeting rooms needs to be super-detailed and efficient."
Coen said the staff's self-scouting process involves watching cutups of "our offense, defense and special teams … every area, every facet."
"You're studying and pulling the things that you did maybe above average and above other teams, then, 'OK, what are the areas in which we really need to focus on improvement?''' he said. "Then that focus goes deeper to each player.
"Every player has an IDP, an individual development program and plan, which we call 'Three better, three best.' And that's what we're focused on. It's a bigger lens right now of offense, defense, special teams, wholeness, but then you get into the weeds of each concept."
Lawrence and Coen on Monday both spoke of appreciating a 2025 season in which the Jaguars won their first AFC South title since 2022 and their most regular-season games since 1999. The Jaguars won their last eight regular-season games, scoring the most points in franchise history with Lawrence finishing fifth in AP NFL Most Valuable Player voting.
But mostly they talked of 2025 being a starting point – and of the work needed to make the improvement that will be a priority moving forward.
"There are 31 teams right now that are pissed off," Coen said. "That's the reality. That's our profession. Only one team truly gets that hoist up that trophy on Super Bowl Sunday and be the champions of the NFL. Our job as coaches and teachers is to make an impact on your players and students for them to improve.
"As a team collectively, anytime you win 13 games, that's not easy to do in this league. You're winning a lot more than you're losing, which I think is a good thing overall. But we did fall short. We did not reach the ultimate, the pinnacle of this profession. That's where you get to improve."
And Lawrence said that's the reality for every NFL team – not just the ones whose season ended in disappointing fashion.
"It's going to be the same thing for the [Super Bowl champion Seattle] Seahawks," Lawrence said. "They won the Super Bowl and they're going to have to come back and restart just like all 32 teams are. For us it's, 'It was a great year. We won 13 games. It was a lot of fun.'
"Still, if you look at the negative side, we still lost in the first round. You had this great season and we won so many games in a row, then we still weren't able to get it done in the wild card. That's the motivation for us. You think about the positives, but that was because we put so much work in the offseason and every day and we got better.
"You're not going to continue to see those good results if you don't continue to work. I know for us as an offense, as a team, for me as a player, I've seen how much that helped us in the offseason. We have to continue to attack that same way."
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RB Travis Etienne Jr. (1)
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RB LeQuint Allen Jr. (36)
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WR/DB Travis Hunter (12)
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Los Angeles Rams
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WR Parker Washington (11)
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LB Ventrell Miller (51)
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WR Jakobi Meyers (3)
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RB LeQuint Allen Jr. (36)
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LB Ventrell Miller (51)
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QB Trevor Lawrence (16)
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RB Travis Etienne Jr. (1)
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