INDIANAPOLIS – These are new times, good times, exciting times.

They're critical times, too – and the importance of this week for the Jaguars is more than interviews, on-field workouts and other events that make up the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine.

The Jaguars' new regime is getting going – and doing it in real time.

"This has been a great opportunity for our staff to really get into the weeds," Head Coach Liam Coen said.

The '25 combine for the Jaguars indeed extends beyond normal "combine stuff," with this being the first full week for Coen's newly-hired coaching staff – and with General Manager James Gladstone having been hired Friday and introduced Monday.

"It's a great dynamic at this stage," said Gladstone, who – like Coen – spoke to the media from the podium Tuesday morning before talking to select national media around the Indiana Convention Center.

With Tony Boselli having been hired as executive vice president of football operations on February 4, the Jaguars' vibe at the combine is one of new leadership, new vision – and of moving past introductory talk and into the real work that is an NFL offseason.

The Jaguars also this week announced multiple assistant hires in addition to the staff initially announced by Coen.

"The first thing you think about is the players," said Coen, hired as head coach on January 24."How do we go and compete to get the best possible staff for our players? That was the only focus, really, first and foremost when we got hired.

"Now that we've got that in place, and James in place, we can start to go make some actual decisions and evaluations of our current roster, the free-agency market, and now getting to know some of these players that ultimately are going to be throughout this draft."

The whirlwind, urgent nature of the week – and of the past several weeks around the Jaguars – was perhaps best exemplified Tuesday by Gladstone.

"Currently, I'm living in [a hotel in] Indianapolis, then I will return to Jacksonville here in a handful of days and start looking for a new home that's a little more permanent," he said, adding, "My wife is pregnant and due at the end of May, so we have about a 30-day travel window to bring it all to life.

Added Gladstone with a smile, "There's a shot clock, for sure."

Coen termed the Jaguars approach this week as moving their usual operations to Indianapolis.

"We've taken our whole process, what we would be doing in Jacksonville right now, and taking that to Indy," Coen said. "We're doing some of the free-agent meetings, going through the draft, and then also obviously doing some scheme, some football and getting with the coaches.

"It has been a great transition so far and really happy to be here."

The week also has been about early bonding.

"This is staff continuity for us," Coen said. "It started on the plane, hanging out with James, hanging out with [offensive coordinator] Grant [Udinski], hanging out with Tony and the guys. It's continuity for us.

"We're all kind of connecting right now. The continuity piece is what we're trying to build."

While the Jaguars are working with urgency and focus this week, both Gladstone and Coen said there is no panic – and no sense of not being able to be ready for either the late April 2025 NFL Draft or the March 12 start of the NFL League Year that marks the beginning of free agency.

"It's really no different from a timeline standpoint," Gladstone said, noting that most NFL teams begin holding free-agency meetings during combine week. "There's no real difference on that front."

The week also marked a return to the combine for both Coen and Gladstone, with Coen – the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offensive coordinator last season – saying he hadn't attended in several years. Gladstone, who served his first nine NFL seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and was their Director of Scouting Strategy the last three seasons, last attended in 2019.

The Rams typically send a smaller contingent to the combine than many teams, with neither Head Coach Sean McVay nor General Manager Les Snead typically attending.

"There's an extreme value to the combine in the event that's put forward," Gladstone said. "The fact that we're a new coaching staff, a new general manager working with our scouting staff, this is a great opportunity for an offsite and just builds some of the connective tissue that otherwise wouldn't necessarily exist because we'd just be in our normal mode of operation in Jacksonville.

"We're already meeting today, tomorrow and beyond with our scouting staff and our coaching staff working through the initial conversations around our roster as well as the pro-free-agent landscape, while also working in some of the conversations that are specific to the draft.

"Really looking forward to more that comes with the rest of the week."