The Jaguars, after finishing 4-13 in 2024, won their last eight games of the 2025 regular season to finish 13-4 and win their first AFC South title in three seasons. Coen became the first first-year head coach in NFL history to coach a team to 13 or more victories after the team lost 13 or more the season before.
Lawrence, who set a franchise record with 28 touchdowns – 29 passing, nine rushing – in his best NFL season to date, called it “a fun year.”
“Not even thinking about next year,” he said. “I have so much confidence in this group and the staff and the direction we’re heading, but that doesn’t make you feel better about the season ending today when we feel like there was more out there for us. So it’s still really, really disappointing. Guys care a lot about it, and that’s why we’re all feeling this way.”
Hines-Allen called the season “the most fun I’ve had in a while,” with linebacker Foyesade Oluokun adding, “You gotta come in next year, or this offseason, keep working, keep grinding.”
“Nothing’s given in this league,” Oluokun said. “You can build on it, but you got to reestablish everything when you come in next year. It’s a new team. I wouldn’t say new identity, but it’s a new year, you got to keep reproving it.”
Lawrence added, “We’re going to have to have a great offseason and get back into it in a few months and prepare the right way, and it’s going to be a new team and a new journey that we’ve got to go on, and we’ve got to earn it every week. There’s no guaranteed success, but I do feel like this is sustainable, the things that we’re doing.
“You have to earn it every year. It’s not just going to happen. I guess that’s the best way to put it.”
Coen late Sunday called it “an honor to be the head coach of this football team.”
“This group of guys, the organization, people that I’m fortunate enough to work with on a day-to-day basis … has been extremely gratifying to be in this role, obviously,” Coen said. “You learn so much in your first year of doing it. To be able to self-scout and self-evaluate it in the off-season to give yourself a chance to win these type of games in the future.
“But putting ourselves in a position to compete like champions every day and see what that looks like next season.”
