The Bills enter Sunday as one of the most-experienced teams in the 2025 postseason, making their seventh consecutive playoff appearance and having won six consecutive AFC East titles from 2020-2024. They played in the AFC Championship Game following last season.
The Jaguars, who narrowly missed the postseason in 2023 before finishing 4-13, have 14 players who played in the 2022 postseason – their most recent playoff appearance. They also feature 15 veterans signed since ’22 who have played in the postseason with other teams.
“I’m sure the intensity level will be up-ticked a little bit, but I think our guys will be ready for it,” Coen said. “We have enough veterans and enough players on this team that have been through difficult games – difficult years, good winning years, winning teams.
“Ultimately, when you have leadership like that and you have continuity, they can then give that information and some of that knowledge to the younger players that haven’t been through it.
“That’s why you probably see some of the ability to be mentally and physically tough.”
Coen and players this week discussed the difference between the regular season and postseason, with Coen citing an age-old adage that the game speeds up in the playoffs: “It may be a little faster. It may be a little bit more physical.”
“That’s just kind of what you feel when you know it’s one and done, when you know you’re in a game that it’s win or go home,” he said, with center Robert Hainsey adding, “It definitely does kick up a little bit, but this is exactly where you want to be.”
“This is why we play the game is to get to this opportunity and it’s just another opportunity,” Hainsey said. “It’s the next one, it’s the most important one, and we’ve got to do everything we can this week – like we’ve done all year – to put ourselves in the best position to win this game through our technique and fundamentals, through our planning, through our preparation.
“Those are the things that are going to matter more now.”
