JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Trevor Lawrence and his Jacksonville Jaguars teammates opened training camp by taking a pop quiz.<\/p>\n
A hundred questions, with Lawrence\u2019s version focused on \u201call the stuff you have to do as a quarterback.\u201d Adding a little pressure to the appraisal, Lawrence had roughly 12 seconds to answer each one.<\/p>\n
He got 85 right, blaming his final score on \u201cat least three\u201d computer glitches.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty difficult,\u201d the quarterback said Wednesday. \u201cSome of them were layups, but there were some good questions in there, some tough ones that kind of got us back going for camp and get the minds going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacksonville\u2019s more telling tests won\u2019t come for weeks, but the Jaguars believe their latest rebuild \u2014 the one featuring first-time head coach Liam Coen and first-time general manager James Gladstone \u2014 could be a quick one simply because players have moved on from last year\u2019s dysfunction.<\/p>\n
There might not have been the kind of drama that engulfed coach Urban Meyer\u2019s lone season in Jacksonville in 2021, but it wasn\u2019t far off.<\/p>\n
Coach Doug Pederson refused to call plays despite owner Shad Khan making it clear he preferred to see Pederson reclaim the role from offensive coordinator Press Taylor. A seemingly worse decision was Pederson hiring defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen, who asked his players to pack on pounds because \u201cmass kicks ass.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen watches players run through drills during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. Credit: AP\/John Raoux<\/p>\n
Throw in assistant coaches refusing to work together and Pederson openly pointing fingers at his offense in the locker room following an 18-13 loss to Cleveland in Week 2, and the season was essentially over long before September.<\/p>\n
Cleaning up the mess could be fairly simple, especially for a team that has talent and plays in perhaps the NFL’s worst division.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of confidence in what we\u2019re doing here and the system, the staff, the new players we brought in, the guys that have already been here, the culture, everything we\u2019re building here,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really have a lot of confidence and belief in what we\u2019re doing, and that we\u2019re doing it the right way, and I think that frees me up in a lot of ways and allows me to say that and feel confident about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Travis Hunter runs through drills during practice at the team’s NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. Credit: AP\/John Raoux<\/p>\n
Gladstone, Coen and executive vice president Tony Boselli revamped nearly every position group, with most of the changes coming around Lawrence. He has a rebuilt offensive line that should keep him off the ground and provide more holes in goal-line and short-yardage situations. He has new receivers in speedster Dyami Brown and two-way star Travis Hunter, the second overall pick in the NFL draft.<\/p>\n
And Coen is committed to improving the ground attack to help Lawrence, who missed seven games in 2024 because of a shoulder injury that ultimately required surgery and a concussion caused by an illegal hit.<\/p>\n
Although everyone agrees Lawrence\u2019s health is the key to Jacksonville rebounding from a 4-13 season, Coen sees other paths to more production. He made subtle tweaks to Lawrence\u2019s mechanics, like having him put his left foot forward in shotgun formation, and said it\u2019s time for the QB to start using his eyes as \u201ca weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawrence will continue honing all those offseason changes during camp. He might even get a chance to improve his \u201cB-plus\u201d score on his next quiz.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, everybody wants to be coached,\u201d Coen said. \u201cI think we\u2019ll see the buy in a little bit more in our games. But in the process, they have done everything we\u2019ve asked them to do from an energy standpoint, communication.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut so far pretty solid feedback. I think anytime there\u2019s change, there\u2019s probably things they don\u2019t like, right? At the end of the day, we all understand that. That\u2019s very normal. \u2026 Anytime a player thinks you can help them, I think ultimately that\u2019s when they start to trust you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Trevor Lawrence and his Jacksonville Jaguars teammates opened training camp by taking a pop quiz.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[41907,7,212,125,2401,213,6,2309],"class_list":{"0":"post-230811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-audio_enabled","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114904998015959936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}