Liam Coen and Trevor Lawrence Recap First Day of Training Camp | Jacksonville Jaguars

Liam Coen and Trevor Lawrence Recap First Day of Training Camp | Jacksonville Jaguars

Yeah, I think what what we were looking for was alignment assignments. Uh kind of limited some of the motions just to hey, let’s go get our cleats in the ground. Let’s go play fundamental football. I thought overall, you know, it was semi clean. Had a couple procedures, but it wasn’t egregious. U had a couple good hard counts there. We got a free play, so there’s some situational stuff that came up. You know, had a turnover on the defensive side. So, hey, it was back and forth, which is kind of what you’re expecting and hoping for in practice one. and and pretty solid. You had I guess exclusively on offense today. What’s going to be that plan move? Is it going to be one day? Will he ever flip and some practices? Yeah. Yeah, he will. Probably within the first, you know, six practices or so. Like we’ll probably have him, you know, you want to give him a couple days offense, couple days defense, and then give him an opportunity to go flip-flop within the same practice. And then that will kind of become the norm, right? Like once we do that, that’ll kind of become the norm and how we operate, but it’ll probably be within the first week or so. Do you have it mapped out the whole camp? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The whole camp’s mapped out every single moment. I don’t know if you saw it during special teams. He was doing defensive drills and fundamentals and footwork. So, um, you know, he’s every moment, every minute that he is in the building, it is accounted for. and uh trying to make sure that we maximize, you know, his time, our time so that we can ultimately get the, you know, the best outcome. When you see guys doing extra work, like they go down to the Bahamas, they’re at Episcopal, all of the things. Just how much uh does that show up here when they’re back together again? Yeah, it’s huge. I mean, look, there there’s a lot of new faces and a lot of positions. And so ultimately, you know, for us to truly play as a team, they got to get to know each other. they they actually have to uh enjoy one another’s company, enjoy doing it together. Um and I appreciate them doing the extra, you know, some of the their own personal time, what you would call vacation. Um you know, I’m sure they had a good time getting to know one another, but also got some quality work in which we as coaches appreciate. The latest on Mason Smith, can you give us an idea of how long you’ll be on the Yeah, I don’t think extremely long. It’s not a major issue. It’s a little bit more precautionary. um you know just tweaked it kind of the week of camp you know of camp. So nothing he had a great off season. He worked his tail off. He was here a ton. Was in great shape. Worked his tail off. So it was a little bit of a bummer obviously but uh it’s a little bit more precautionary. Could he go and play in a game in this week? You know, who knows? But um it won’t be too long. Uh I think he is that disclosed yet? I’m not sure if it’s disclosed. I don’t think it’s disclosed yet. Yeah. um new transition uh with with players have coming from the old regime to the new regime. How quickly did these guys buy into what you’re trying to bring here and to see that in the first uh practice here? Yeah, I think that ultimately everybody wants to be coached, right? So I you know I think that we’ll see the buy in a little bit more in in truly our game you know in our games but in the process they have they’ve done everything we’ve asked them to do from an energy standpoint communication you know it’s still every day you know we’re continuing to to improve those things and continue to um you know talk about it in the meetings in the team meetings but you know so far pretty solid feedback. I think anytime there’s change, there’s ultimately, you know, things they like and there’s probably things they don’t like, right? At the end of the day, we all understand that. That’s very normal. So, um, you know, I think just getting to know them a little bit more on a personal level and what they’re trying to get better at, how we can see them improve. Anytime a player thinks you can help them, I think ultimately that’s when they start to trust you. You said you got Travis’s schedule mapped out. Will that does that uh get evaluated on a daily basis, maybe even evolve at how that’s going through camp? Yeah, I think it I mean it evolved a little bit from the offseason program, right? Like we saw there was a a a span where maybe he practiced on offense, let’s call it a Thursday because we didn’t do anything on the Fridays and then he had Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then Monday he was on defense. That’s like four days without doing anything on offense. Well, we learned that was too long, right? that’s too long to kind of go without doing anything on maybe the other side of the ball. So, we learned something there. And we also um within these blocks where we’re kind of three days on with an off day, it allows us to map it out maybe a little bit cleaner and give him more opportunities. But every single day that he is on one side of the ball, he will meet with the other side of the ball at least once, maybe twice as well. So trying to not let that happen where he goes offense, offense, then practice on defense, but he hasn’t heard a single thing on the defensive side of the ball in two days. So we absolutely learned and I could see it continue to evolve this training camp. Describe where Trevor is footwork wise now based on when you first got here and gave him that stuff to work on. Yeah, I think today I thought he was pretty clean in a lot of ways. Um, you know, it’s more so a we want to get our feet to our target, but that doesn’t mean your eyes have to always be at your target. Like, we can use our eyes as a weapon while keeping our feet clean. That’s been something we’ve continued to work on that, you know, going into this year in your in your uh development, your eyes have to be a weapon and your feet have to be in rhythm, right? Because we know once stuff starts moving, it’s not going to always be perfect. So, if we can continue to drill that, I thought he had a good day, like I said today, and and he’s taken to it, right? He was right foot up all last year and really the course of his career, and now he’s left foot up in the shotgun I’m talking about. So, that kind of involves a little bit of a different rhythm, footwork, and I thought I think he’s done a nice job progressing that so far. Coach, with physical identity being something that you mentioned when you first took over, does that mean you’ll have more physical practices in training camp in order to make that happen? We’re going to have to. I mean, we only have the one uh joint practice and um you know, so ultimately we’re going to have to do it uh with each other at times and obviously you’ve got to control it and make sure that we’re doing it the right way. Um but yeah, we’re going to have to be physical with one another. I mean, that’s just the bottom line. And um you know, right now we’re we’re trying to continue to find our edge, what is our edge going to be as a team, as a unit, as a position group, and each player and coach. So, what will be our edge? And and we need to make physicality a part of that and playing with an edge. So, we will we will definitely have to get after it a little bit. You brought some of the receivers together over here during the special teams period as far as I’ve had. Why was that important just to end that moment? Yeah, just get some more immediate feedback, right? like there’s ultimately coaching points that happen out here that shoot maybe I forget in like two hours to continue to remind them of um you know whereas I know their position coaches will cover it but you know it’s good to hear you know for me ultimately on both sides of the ball hey this is something I’m seeing like how can we make this better ultimately and both those guys it was not necessarily a mistake it was just something that we can continue to clean up make better evolve and um you know those guys take coaching really And then kind of in the same vein after BTJ had the drop. You were one of the first people over to him said, “Hey, let’s keep going.” Just I know you talked about the power of touch and all those things. How are you coming along with that? Yeah, good. I mean, you know, ultimately we had a few drops today, right? I mean, had three of them, I think, to my knowledge. And so, like that’s part of the game. Like, it’s a physical mistake. He didn’t mean to do it. He didn’t try to do it intentionally. It’s usually what happens when you lose your legs a little and you lose a little focus. So just trying to hey man let’s move on right we’ve got to be short memory all of us at all times I’m speaking of myself and uh you know play the next play nothing matters but the next play and uh so much like a golfer right being a caddy as a coach it’s like next shot mentality next play mentality let’s move on and uh you can’t do anything about it couple more you happy with the physical condition that the team has come back with after break yeah I think like you know it’s so hard you know we do a conditioning test and that conditioning test, you know, the conditioning test for players is playing the game. And so ultimately, like I’m pleased with the way they came in, you know, came in. We’re going to have to get in football shape still. Like that’s the reality, right? Like they can get in conditioning shape all they want, but football shape is a completely different thing. And so, um, you know, I think it’ll probably take a couple days for us to really feel like we’re not dying out there while having to think and move and do all those things. So, I was pleased with them. I think they all worked pretty hard this summer. When you were trying to come up with your training camp schedule as a head coach for the first time, who do you rely on? Yeah, it’s a great question. We, you know, you’ve been to multiple different stops, right? And you’ve got great coaches on your staff to rely on. And so we kind of took a few different models uh of places we’ve been whether it was LA, Tampa, Minnesota, Seattle, a couple different places where our coaches have, you know, specifically been and Green Bay Campy and just kind of all right, what fits us, right? And how do we make this ours? Um that’s that was it really how we went through it. Jake Kaiser and uh Shane Waldron really helped me out with that throughout the offseason program. It’s something I’ve only had to do on one side of the ball with an offensive calendar and install schedule and now you’ve got to make and create schedules for the entire offseason program and season. Uh it’s a little different, you know, but ultimately the benefit of having one:00 games throughout the whole season and with the exception of the Monday night game, we don’t have a ton of different schedules and routines for the year. Is that one of those hidden unseen things that a head coach first time has to deal with that we know nothing about? Yeah, that was one of those things that you think you can kind of just like copy paste kind of, you know, from place, you know, maybe, oh well, I just did it like this in Tampa, you know, it worked, it was good, but then you there’s different ways to skin a cat, right? And there’s different ways that ultimately you want to make sure that you’re maximizing time while also being fair, right, within the schedule and making sure that we don’t leave training camp and we’re not going into week one with no legs. Like, that’s not the goal. The goal is to go into week one with legs, feeling fresh, feeling fast, and ultimately healthy. So, it’s definitely a little bit underestimated and u I’m glad that it’s over. You got to balance that at all? I talked to one of the guys who said this first day feels different than it has in in years past and they like the energy. Everybody’s smiling and working, but do you have to balance the crank it up today, but be ready for week one? Absolutely. Um it it’s definitely especially in training camp, it’s probably one of the more delicate things you think about as a head coach where it’s like you are continuing to try to push and you want to push those limits of toughness and be able to make sure that we’re getting mentally and physically tough every single day while also balancing, man. Like you you never want anybody to get hurt. You never want to. So, it’s like, all right, rep count, time on the grass, recovery time, transition times. Like, it’s absolutely a balance. You want these guys to come out cranked up, ready to go each and every day, but it’s definitely a balance that’s uh I’m still learning. Thank you, guys. It’s go time. So, what does that sort of mean to you? What does that look like in terms of what you need to do to sort of get to that? Yeah, I mean I think it’s it’s obviously the preparation and the work you put in in the offseason and the stuff that’s already been done. You know, now that we’re at camp, it’s not really necessarily the time to turn like flip a switch. It’s kind of been on since really postsurgery recovery, trying to get back healthy and uh learning the new system. All that stuff is put a lot of time in this offseason into making sure I’m ready to go this season. And um I say that too cuz I have a lot of confidence in what we’re doing here and the system, the staff, the new players we brought in, the guys that have already been here, like the culture, everything we’re building here. I I really have a lot of confidence and belief in what we’re doing and that we’re doing it the right way. And I think that, you know, frees me up in a lot of ways and uh kind of allows me to say that and feel confident about it. How would you evaluate practice number one spring? It’s better than the spring. You know, I think for everyone it I speak for myself, but I I assume, you know, the offense feels very similarly. Just feels good to to know the system and to hear the calls and to go play and to not think as much feels more like second nature. So, couple execution things, some couple plays that we missed, you know, just a little bit that we’re going to hit and we got to make moving forward, but that’s always going to happen. It’s never going to be perfect. So, it it felt good to get back on the grass, guys moving around, flying around. Um, kind of get our bodies and minds back going and um it was a good first day, competitive back and forth. Defense made some plays, offense made some plays, and it’s kind of what you want. So, build off that. And for us, just to continue to make those all those contested plays, we got to treat them like those are all our our balls. Either make the throw, make the catch, make the block, whatever it is, go make the play. extra work that you guys do away from the building, whether that’s the Bahamas trip, the work at Episcopal, wherever. Just how much does that show up now that you’re back in the building? Shows up a lot. You know, there was some stuff in the spring where, you know, I was just coming off injury, just getting back in the flow of throwing and really doing a bunch of field work. I just started that once we started OTAAS and addition to a lot of new receivers and getting some timing and you know, even with BT, we only got half a season together. So even some things there I wanted to polish up and we were able to get a lot of work in this offseason whether it was in the Bahamas or here guys being in town to work out. You know guys did a great job of being around being available and that stuff carries over. So when you start camp there’s a couple throws today that were some timing throws that I felt like we were on point that you wouldn’t get if you didn’t get the reps in the offseason just because they’re hard. You got to know you got to throw it before the guys break. They got to trust you’re going to put it in the right spot. Um and you got to have that time. What’s it like playing with BC? He’s great. Just, you know, obviously he’s kind of that like silent assassin. He’s he’s uh just goes to work. That’s one thing I love about him. You know, he’s not a he’s not a big ego, look at me guy. He just goes and puts the work in and makes plays. And uh just his speed, his one-on-one ability, it’s really impressive. And and to have him on the outside, that matchup, if they ever want to go one-on-one, we feel like that’s a favorable matchup for us and we’re going to win most of them. Um, and then to add the pieces that we’ve added, uh, only helps that because now you just have so much speed, so much talent everywhere and, um, there’s a lot of mismatches. So, you can’t tilt something one way just for BT or then you got some other issues. So, it helps a lot. And I just like the way he approaches his work every day, honestly, just the way he carries himself. You said in the spring, one of the things you like about this offense is there’s you get to the line of scrimmage, you always feel like there’s an answer there. So, what’s that feeling like when you get up to the line of scrimmage and you don’t have the answer to get out of? I mean, is that Can you just kind of walk us through that a little bit? Yeah. I mean, there’s sometimes that you know that there you don’t have the answer and you know poorly snap, that’s not a good feeling and you try to just make the best out of the play that you can, but then there’s sometimes where right when the ball snapped, you’re like, “Oh, shoot. This isn’t right.” And that’s sometimes either maybe I should have got to the other play or maybe it was just a look that we didn’t anticipate. Like there’s a lot of different scenarios like that. But either way, I think it’s it’s managing those times cuz that does happen. You know, I think our staff does an awesome job, but there’s going to be times at some point where we’re not in a great play and you can’t be perfect, you know, and they trust me to to do the best thing with the ball when those those are the I mean, that’s some of the most important situations is not to make a bad play worse, find a completion. That’s something I’ve definitely had to learn throughout my career is not to try to do too much on a play that’s not, you know, that’s an uphill play. How different is you are you physically? You know, the last couple years you’ve pretty much had to watch from the sideline to the end of the season. So, how has that changed you and how are you feeling after the first practice? Feel really good. It’s the best I felt in a long time physically. Um, yeah, it’s it sucks not playing, not being on the field. You know, that’s what I love to do. Love to play and you put in all the work in the offseason and through camp and then to have the season cut short isn’t isn’t fun. So, it g it’s given me a really great appreciation for the game and and how much, you know, I love it and love being out here. And um sometimes you take things for granted when you when you get to do it every day and you’re healthy and you take whether you take your health for granted or playing the game for granted, it’s you know, when that’s taken away for a little bit, you kind of reflect and take a step back. And it’s been, you know, in some ways it’s been good for me. Unfortunately, you know, I missed some time and never want to miss time, but I think it it’s been good for some perspective things with me and myself and how I view the game and um moving forward, you know, how I want to prepare myself and how I want to play. Anything physically, workout wise different this year than maybe you did in years past to kind of help with that or no? a lot more, you know, prehab, rehab, therapy stuff on my shoulder, obviously still, you know, after the surgery. But, um, I think through the injuries I’ve had, you learn things and you try to really, uh, stress those areas and put them in different, I guess, positions and uncomfortable spots, and you train those things to to avoid, you know, reinjuring the same thing. And I think you learn a lot after getting hurt as far as my body. And maybe you look at things like, oh, in our plan, maybe we didn’t address that enough and we can add some mass there. We can add some strength there, whether it’s shoulders or lower body or hips or whatever. You know, there’s a lot of things you can learn from injuries and how to kind of minimize those moving forward. Liam mentioned you took a quiz a couple of days ago. Have you ever Is that common? Number one, was it hard number two? Uh, common? No, it’s not common. Uh it was it was pretty difficult and not all the questions. Some of them were some layups, but I mean yes, there were some good there were some good questions in there, some tough ones that kind of got us back get us back going for camp and get the minds going and you know all the stuff you have to do as a quarterback. It was good. It kind of encompassed our whole offense and whether it’s scheme protections, it was a lot of stuff that was good to do as like one of our first days back to kind of make sure we’re ready to go and we’ve been looking over our stuff this off seasonason. You’ve had to absorb a lot of different offenses. Yeah. Is this the most difficult challenging one? Yeah, I would say so. But I think now looking at it as going through it now for the second time after OTAAS, feel so much more confident and comfortable in it. So the things that I thought were difficult at first have become more second nature and aren’t as big of a deal now. So, but yeah, I would say just the the amount of things you have to know, the amount of calls with multiple plays so that we can be in the uh whatever position to succeed and be in the right play. It’s more of that than I’ve ever had. It’s uh a lot of motions, a lot of shifts, all those things. And then just longer play calls, a little bit more verbiage because of, like I said, multiple plays and motions and shifts. So, but once you know it and it’s second nature, you know what everything means and it and it all makes sense. But at first it’s like you’re trying to just spit everything back out and then put it together at the end. So, you know, thankfully we’re past that and the guys are rolling and feel good about it now. Did you get right? I was uh to be exact, I was 85 out of 100. Had a couple there was a couple little there’s a couple bad answers in there by me that I know just it’s time too. So, it’s like 12 seconds to like punch in the answer. So, some of that like puts pressure on you. So, I had some dumb answers and then it glitched a couple times at least three times. Some of my answers I’ll say too, but was that an okay grade for him or was it Yeah, it was good. It’s a good grade. I mean, was it B+? Not great, but B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Yeah, B+ weighted B+. Yeah, we round up. You brought it up on the Ozone podcast, but footwork being tied to this offense, reading your progressions according to the hitch of your footwork, how much have you gained from working with Nick, who’s been in KC system, been in this system, so to speak. Yeah. He looks pretty sharp out there in terms of football. For sure. Nick is he’s been in this system. He’s really smart. You know, he’s played a lot of football. Um, so I definitely can take a lot of things that, you know, he says and he does and and learn from it. For sure. I mean, he’s is a guy that, like I said, he’s really smart. He plays with a lot of anticipation. You know, reading coverages, he’s really good. He’s on time. His feet are always synced up. So, and and it was something I watched early on when we started of just his footwork cuz it is the same system pretty much that he was that he was in. And um yeah, and hearing him just when I first came in, his confidence and how he feels about the system is like, man, you’re going to love it. It’s just you can trust it. The progressions are great. You just keep trusting it. Trust your feet. Stay on time. Like all those things. And to see to hear him say that and to see him do it and he’s had to play a lot in the past few years and played well like it’s you can see that that’s real especially, you know, coming from someone that’s done it. It’s nice to hear. Coach Cohen talked about using your eyes as a weapon. Has that been an emphasis for you and how’s that coming along? Yeah, it’s been great. Something I’ve worked a lot in OTAAS and then this this summer break we were on. um just use exactly like you said, using my eyes as a weapon and um not not giving the defense a tip on anything of where I’m going with the ball and trying to um use my eyes to move people or to open up certain windows or whatever. It’s been something that a lot of quarterbacks do and you know I never really know it’s it’s something that never really been taught necessarily, but to hear their perspective on certain plays and the emphasis on certain plays to use your eyes, especially to open windows is something where it makes sense, but it’s just if you don’t if you’re not told to do it, sometimes you don’t think about it. And then now, you know, learning those little things that can help make the windows two yards bigger, I mean, that’s a huge difference in this league. So, um, it’s helped a lot and they’ve they’ve taught me a lot about stuff like that. In some of those workout videos, you’re wearing pads. Is there a reason behind that or in case someone comes in and hits me, you know, I just want to have my No, I’m just kidding. Uh, I usually throw I try to throw towards the end of the off season in pads at least half the time just cuz you don’t throw in pads all OTAAS all spring and then you come to training camp and you’re in pads and then you play games and you’re in pads. So, it is different. You know, you have less range of motion. It’s clunkier. You’re moving around, especially on the run. And um I think it just helps me kind of get ready to to throw in pads when you know, sounds silly, but you do have to practice those things. Yeah. Like two more unless you’re good. And Drake and Josh, great show. Great show. All right, you guys. Good. Thank you.

Jacksonville Jaguars HC Liam Coen and QB Trevor Lawrence speak to the media after practice at 2025 Training Camp, presented by Dream Finders Homes.

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