The Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers square off in Week 1 of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo start fast is always important,\u201d head coach Liam Coen said Friday. \u201cI used to always really worry about the first play and then Matthew Stafford told me nobody remembers the first play. Just get the ball snapped, run anything and get the game started.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to start with success, though, and that\u2019s really what it comes down to, is get the guys into a groove early, get people touches, get the quarterback in a rhythm, let the O-line settle in. So, it is important to have success, but like we\u2019ve been preaching this entire time, and specifically this week, it\u2019s not just about that, it\u2019s going to be more about our response and how we respond if we don\u2019t go down the field and score on the first drive, what does that look like for our defense going on the grass and having to get a stop? And then the offense having to go back out there and regroup and get something going.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s to me what\u2019s going to be the difference for us in this game is, yeah, I\u2019d love to start fast. New Orleans felt good when we started fast on both sides of the ball, but you\u2019ve got to sustain it, and we also have to respond when good things don\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
When: Sunday, September 7 at 1:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
What are you looking forward to seeing today, Jaguars fans? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers square off in Week 1 of the 2025 season. \u201cTo start fast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,52775,2406,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-349077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-game-information","13":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115163368466830302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349077","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=349077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}