{"id":670380,"date":"2026-01-12T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:12:13","slug":"game-that-was-jaguars-27-24-loss-to-bills-in-wild-card-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670380\/","title":{"rendered":"Game That Was Jaguars&#8217; 27-24 Loss to Bills in Wild Card Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaguars, after finishing 4-13 in 2024, won their last eight games of the 2025 regular season to finish 13-4 and win their first AFC South title in three seasons. Coen became the first first-year head coach in NFL history to coach a team to 13 or more victories after the team lost 13 or more the season before.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, who set a franchise record with 28 touchdowns \u2013 29 passing, nine rushing \u2013 in his best NFL season to date, called it &#8220;a fun year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not even thinking about next year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have so much confidence in this group and the staff and the direction we&#8217;re heading, but that doesn&#8217;t make you feel better about the season ending today when we feel like there was more out there for us. So it&#8217;s still really, really disappointing. Guys care a lot about it, and that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re all feeling this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hines-Allen called the season &#8220;the most fun I&#8217;ve had in a while,&#8221; with linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jaguars.com\/team\/players-roster\/foye-oluokun\/\" title=\"Foyesade Oluokun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foyesade Oluokun<\/a> adding, &#8220;You gotta come in next year, or this offseason, keep working, keep grinding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s given in this league,&#8221; Oluokun said. &#8220;You can build on it, but you got to reestablish everything when you come in next year. It&#8217;s a new team. I wouldn&#8217;t say new identity, but it&#8217;s a new year, you got to keep reproving it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence added, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to have a great offseason and get back into it in a few months and prepare the right way, and it&#8217;s going to be a new team and a new journey that we&#8217;ve got to go on, and we&#8217;ve got to earn it every week. There&#8217;s no guaranteed success, but I do feel like this is sustainable, the things that we&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to earn it every year. It&#8217;s not just going to happen. I guess that&#8217;s the best way to put it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coen late Sunday called it &#8220;an honor to be the head coach of this football team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This group of guys, the organization, people that I&#8217;m fortunate enough to work with on a day-to-day basis \u2026 has been extremely gratifying to be in this role, obviously,&#8221; Coen said. &#8220;You learn so much in your first year of doing it. To be able to self-scout and self-evaluate it in the off-season to give yourself a chance to win these type of games in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But putting ourselves in a position to compete like champions every day and see what that looks like next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars, after finishing 4-13 in 2024, won their last eight games of the 2025 regular season to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95186,7,130,212,125,2401,213,134,131,62949,36829,133,6,314],"class_list":["post-670380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-buffalo-bills-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-post-1","tag-football","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-that-was","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-nfl","tag-trevor-lawrence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115879945418838718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670380","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=670380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}