JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For the final time in the 2025 season, Jaguars general manager James Gladstone and head coach Liam Coen spoke to the media. The team finished the regular season 13-4 and earned the AFC No. 3 seed in the playoffs.
Coen became the only first-year head coach in NFL history to win 12 or more games after taking over a team that had four or fewer wins the previous season. Despite a 27-24 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the AFC wild-card round, Gladstone said he was pleased with the team’s improvement over the past year.
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Reflecting on the season, Gladstone said the success was a collective effort throughout the organization.
“The desired result obviously wasn’t there, but there’s a lot of pride in the process,” Gladstone said. “As I think about what myself, Liam and Tony [executive vice president of football operations Tony Boselli] were able to do with a vision, being able to execute that, raising the floor of the football team — knowing that when you think back to 2024 there was plenty of talent to keep close games, but we needed to raise the floor and inject intangibles into the football team so that we could close games. To be able to see that come to fruition is something that we can certainly take some pride in and being able to talk through and engineer what this football team looks like moving forward and where our points of emphasis need to be.”
The Jaguars finished the regular season in the top 10 in the NFL in numerous statistical categories:
- Rush yards allowed per game: 85.6 (1st)
- Points off takeaways: 110 (1st)
- Two-minute defense: 6 points (1st)
- Passes defensed: 107 (1st)
- Two-minute offense: 42 points (tied for 1st)
- Takeaways: 31 (2nd)
- Interceptions: 22 (2nd)
- Turnover differential: plus-13 (3rd)
- Opponent scoring efficiency: 31.2% (3rd)
- Opponent fourth-down percentage: 35.5% (3rd)
- Point differential: plus-138 (4th)
- Total touchdowns: 55 (5th)
- Time of possession: 31:27 (5th)
- Opponent passer rating: 78.5 (5th)
- Total points: 474 (6th)
- Points per game: 27.9 (6th)
- First downs: 356 (7th)
- Completions of 20-plus yards: 57 (tied for 7th)
- Points allowed: 336 (8th)
- Opponent yards per play: 4.98 (8th)
- Red zone scoring: 61.8% (10th)
Coen said his message to the team during its final meeting Monday was to evaluate what worked and what didn’t during the season and address those issues in the offseason to improve next year’s results.
“I was extremely proud of a lot of things that we were able to accomplish,” Coen said. “Very proud of their response to adversity and to that 1-0 message and that next-play mentality. Now the real work is here, where we have to go and reload it. We’re not going to just stand here and say, man, we’re just going to re-do it all with all the same, same, same, same because that got us 13 wins and knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. Clearly it was not good enough for the full end-of-the-season standard.”
The coaching staff and front office will take a few weeks off before returning in February to begin planning for the offseason. That process will include decisions on which players will remain with the team and which will move on.