Jaguars (2-1) will play the Cincinnati Bengals (2-1) at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio<\/a>, Sunday in a 2026 Week 4 game, with the Bengals having won the last four meetings between the teams \u2013 including a 31-27 Bengals victory in Cincinnati in Week 2 last season.<\/p>\n“The guys did a nice job of attacking the week the right way,” Head Coach Liam Coen said.<\/p>\n
Coen in recent weeks has emphasized the importance of good practice weeks, the sort that the Jaguars turned in a week ago leading to a one-sided home victory over the defending AFC Champion New England Patriots.<\/p>\n
Coen on Friday spoke positively of this week’s practices.<\/p>\n
“They worked,” Coen said. “[Thursday] was physical. It wasn’t all perfect, but started with special teams. I thought our special teams period [Thursday] was arguably one of the better ones we’ve had since we’ve been here together as a group.”<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game marks the first of three consecutive games away from Jacksonville for the Jaguars, who know what to expect from the Bengals’ crowd and stadium Sunday.<\/p>\n
“This atmosphere last year, if you guys remember, was pretty gnarly,” Coen said. “They had a great turnout for this game last year, made it challenging in some ways in terms of communication.”<\/p>\n
Jacksonville has sharpened its pre-snap process offensively since that second game under Coen. The Jaguars enter Sunday as one of the NFL’s least-penalized teams through the first three weeks of the season.<\/p>\n
They also have the experience of playing tough games on the road under Coen, playing twice in Denver during his tenure and winning last season in Denver and San Francisco.<\/p>\n
“All of that stuff that you’re doing has to be that much better,” Coen said of playing in raucous road environments. “It has to be that much more detailed. It has to be that much more synced up because there’s no room for error when the center has his head between his legs and you’ve got timely motions happening and fast motions.<\/p>\n
“If you mess one of those up, the ball’s hitting the motion guy or something happens. Those are things you just don’t really deal with at home. It is a lot about the balance of coaches not putting too much on these guys, especially going on the road, but also feeling like you have enough ammunition going into the work week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The work is done, and the Jaguars are ready for some football. The Jaguars (2-1) will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9263,881,116,118,133970,117,880,883],"class_list":["post-417829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-brian-thomas-jr","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-at-cincinnati-bengals-2026-reg-4","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-jaguars-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417829","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=417829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}