{"id":404815,"date":"2026-01-12T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:10:07","slug":"jaguars-vow-to-come-back-stronger-after-nfl-playoff-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404815\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars vow to come back stronger after NFL playoff exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Josh Hines-Allen<\/a> said the Jaguars\u2019 27-24 loss Sunday to the Bills in an AFC wild-card playoff game will bother him for a while, but he also believes some good will come out of the hurt.<\/p>\n

And motivation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a growing step for us, a growing moment,\u201d Hines-Allen said. \u201cAnd obviously this team\u2019s not going to be the same next year. And we felt like in the moment this was our opportunity to go take advantage of it, and we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve got a lot of guys that\u2019s hungry. And we\u2019re going to attack this offseason, grow from this offseason and come back ready to win the whole thing next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Super Bowl talk one season after finishing 4-13 is certainly amping up expectations, the Jaguars did make significant strides in 2025 under first-year coach Liam Coen. They went 13-4, winning their last eight regular-season games to capture the AFC South. They scored a franchise-record 474 points, led the NFL in rush defense, and quarterback Trevor Lawrence<\/a> put together the best season of his five-year career.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars do have several key impending free agents — running back Travis Etienne Jr.<\/a> and linebacker Devin Lloyd<\/a> top the list — and coordinators Grant Udinsky and Anthony Campanile might receive head coaching interviews for one of the NFL\u2019s eight current vacancies. But the core of the team will be back, as will cornerback\/receiver Travis Hunter<\/a>, who sat out the second half of his rookie season because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Hines-Allen said that group has set a high standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the first times where I felt surrounded by guys that wanted to be great, guys that sacrificed their body, guys that wanted greatness from their teammates and told them about it, sacrificed themselves about it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo for me, it was a lot of fun to be around a lot of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Hines-Allen called this season \u201cthe most fun\u201d he\u2019s had in a very long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of guys that can say the same thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lawrence, who set a career high in total touchdowns (38) and posted his third 4,000-yard passing season, also is optimistic that the success the Jaguars put together under Coen is sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have so much confidence in this group and the staff and the direction we\u2019re heading, but that doesn\u2019t make you feel better about the season ending today when we feel like there was more out there for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c… There\u2019s no guaranteed success, but I do feel like this is sustainable, the things that we\u2019re doing. I know offensively and defensively, both sides of the ball had a hell of a year when it got down to the end, where we finished, and the growth that we had. … But you have to earn it every year. It\u2019s not just going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Josh Hines-Allen said the Jaguars\u2019 27-24 loss Sunday to the Bills in an AFC wild-card…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1748,49,48,1725,514,82],"class_list":["post-404815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}