JACKSONVILLE – Liam Coen leaned into perspective Monday.
The first-year head coach spoke to the media a day after the Jaguars’ most one-sided loss of the 2025 season, acknowledging the season’s first “real adversity” while emphasizing the team’s situation entering a Week 8 bye.
All is not lost. Not even close.
“Everything is still ahead of us,” he said.
Coen, speaking a day after a 35-7 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at Wembley Stadium in London, discussed the state of the team – and the need to reduce the mistakes that have led to a two-game losing streak after a 4-1 start.
“We have to play cleaner football,” Coen said. “That’s the reality.”
The Jaguars in recent weeks have been plagued at times by penalties, sacks, dropped passes and other avoidable mistakes – with quarterback Trevor Lawrence sacked 14 times in the last two games and the Jaguars committing 23 penalties for 195 yards in the span.
Coen said he spoke with the coaching staff Monday, emphasizing that “we cannot go back and try to reinvent the wheel here” and saying the key instead is playing more fundamentally sound with better situational awareness and “handling the controllables.”
“That’s where we’re at,” Coen said. “We have to pour into that and find out [this week], ‘What do we do best? What are the things that we do best in all three phases?’ Go and dive into and pour into those things. That’s how I’ve been taught to get back on track, personally.