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Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen spoke with the media following Day 1 of Organized Training Activities at the Miller Electric practice fields. Here are a few takeaways from practice and Coen’s media availability.
The Jacksonville Jaguars kicked off day one of Organized Team Activities on Monday, opening the team's first offense versus defense action under incoming playcalling Head Coach Liam Coen and Defensive Coordinator Anthony Campanile. While the humid Jacksonville sun came ready to play early on, Coen's offense started off slightly sluggish.
Here are our takeaways from OTA day one and Coen's post-practice media availability.
Takeaways from Day 1 of OTAs:
A young team is looking, well...young
With the Jacksonville Jaguars opening their inaugural OTAs under Coen and GM James Gladstone, this allowed media (and the players themselves) their first opportunity to witness Coen's Jacksonville offense against an opposing unit. However, the offense seemed to need a little time getting their feet under them, with multiple overthrows, misfires, drops, and one false start throughout the early practice drills against air.
Whether it was Sophomore WR Brian Thomas Jr or Rookie WR/CB Travis Hunter (who also had an early drop in the opening drills), the offense began the day slightly "off." However, they would pick things up momentarily in the 7-on-7 period with multiple pretty clean periods of efficiency, before again struggling with turnovers or miscues in the multiple 11-on-11 periods.
Of the days' four interceptions, one Trevor Lawrence int was the result of a tipped pass off of WR Parker Washington's hands with the other Lawrence interception an overthrow of Travis Hunter. Lawrence spoke with the media after practice,
“I really just sailed one to Travis over the middle. He did a nice job. He had a cross route, I had him open and just sailed it a little bit. Sav [S Darnell Savage] picked that one off, he was behind him. The other one was just me and Parker [WR Parker Washington] being on the same page on a curl route. I tried to throw it away from a zone defender underneath, and we were just a little bit off on what each other was thinking. This is the time of year when you work that stuff out. Obviously, you never want to have interceptions. You never want to have balls on the ground, you want to be clean. But on the other hand, you want to see the miscommunication or some of that so you can fix it now and not carry that over later on. We will fix that stuff, and we will get it cleaned up.”
This is the time of year to do just that, getting those miscues cleaned up. RB Bhayshul Tuten's fumble in the 11-on-11 period was an early notable that the staff will look at fixing, with Tuten bringing with him 9 total fumbles over his past two collegiate seasons. Four occured in 2024, though only one was lost.
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