JACKSONVILLE – These are encouraging times, and exciting times.
Those are ways to view the Jaguars’ offensive line as the 2025 offseason moves toward 2025 Training Camp. It’s also an important time, with Shaun Sarrett and pretty much everyone else around the group viewing it as something else:
A competitive time – to an uncommon degree.
“We’ll keep them working at it each day and hopefully we get the best five starting when it all flattens out,” Sarrett said.
Sarrett, entering his first season as the Jaguars’ offensive line coach, spoke to the media near the end of the team’s recent offseason program. Head Coach Liam Coen, like Sarrett, emphasized during the offseason the competitive nature expected from the offensive line.
“Those guys have done a nice job so far,” Coen said, adding: “They’ve taken to the competition, and ultimately, we’ll hold off on some of those judgements until we get to training camp.”
The Jaguars since Coen’s January hiring have moved to reshape the offensive line, addressing the area in free agency and the draft with an emphasis on not only competition but versatility.
And if competition is difficult in the offseason because of the unpadded nature of the work, Sarrett – like Coen – said the recent weeks were productive preparing for training camp and the regular season.
“We have this saying, ‘The tempo goes down, the technique’s got to come up,”’ Sarrett said. “That’s something these guys really have done. They’re really taking it to heart and they’re trying their damnedest. You get these walkthrough situations while they’re all spitting at the bit. You keep them in that controlled environment, but you have to look through it.
“Right now, it’s all about technique and then learning the scheme itself then they really put their hitting on display once we come back for training camp.”