JACKSONVILLE \u2013 They wanted to run, and run they did.<\/p>\n
And while the offense can still improve, Head Coach Liam Coen<\/a> on Monday afternoon made clear that how the Jaguars played offensively Sunday is a glimpse into what he wants moving forward.<\/p>\n They ran to win, and Coen would like to see that continue.<\/p>\n “That’s definitely a recipe somewhat of success for us,” he said.<\/p>\n Coen spoke a day after a 30-29 road overtime victory over the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, with the Jaguars moving to within a game and half of first place in the AFC South by remaining committed to the offensive style he has emphasized since taking over as the Jaguars’ coach in January:<\/p>\n Physical, tough, dictating \u2013 and while the Jaguars struggled to control the game with that approach early, perseverance yielded benefits late.<\/p>\n “You wear them down through the course of the game,” running back Travis Etienne Jr.<\/a> said.<\/p>\n Etienne on Sunday led the Jaguars with 84 yards on 22 carries, and the Jaguars rushed for 151 yards on 42 carries \u2013 their most rushing yards since rushing for 151 in a Week 4 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n Etienne rushed for 65 yards on 15 carries in the second half and overtime, with 115 of the Jaguars’ rushing totals coming during that span.<\/p>\n “NFL competitors get paid a lot to do their jobs,” Etienne said. “First half, first quarter \u2026 guys are energized, fired up and you kind of just wear them down throughout the game and we just kind of got rolling. Those 4-yard gains start to become 8. Those 8 start to become 10 and you’ve just got to stick with it.<\/p>\n “[Coen] did that Sunday and we were able to reap the benefits.”<\/p>\n The Jaguars increasingly emphasized the run late with wide receiver Dyami Brown out with a concussion and wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. in and out of the game with an ankle injury. The Jaguars ran eight times for 35 fourth-quarter yards, with quarterback Trevor Lawrence<\/a> scoring on a 7-yard run and rookie Bhayshul Tuten<\/a> scoring on a 1-yard run. The last three plays before Tuten’s touchdown were runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 They wanted to run, and run they did. And while the offense can still improve, Head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[881,116,118,22939,17946,117,5323,882,880,6315,883,887,10871],"class_list":["post-32533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-at-houston-texans-2025-reg-10","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-at-las-vegas-raiders-2025-reg-9","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-liam-coen","tag-news-day-after","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-sponsor-nemours","tag-travis-etienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}