JACKSONVILLE – It's getting cooler and realer now.

Liam Coen has been the Jaguars’ head coach for 10 weeks, and this week marks the closest thing to real football around the organization in that time. The players are back in the building. At last.

And the energy around that is real.

"It starts now," Coen said.

Coen, named head coach in late January, spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon – one day after the official beginning of the 2025 offseason program. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence and linebacker Foyesade Oluokun also held media availabilities at the Miller Electric Center Wednesday,with Lawrence saying the "energy in the building feels great."

"From a player's standpoint, everybody's excited," Lawrence said, with Oluokun – a starter the past three seasons – adding, "It's fun; I'm excited."

"There's a lot of good energy in the building ready to all improve together," Oluokun said.

Lawrence, entering his fifth NFL season and fifth as the Jaguars' starter, has been at the MEC extensively throughout the offseason rehabilitating after December surgery on his left – non-throwing – shoulder. He said he expects to be fully healthy well in time for 2025 Training Camp.

"Everybody in locker room is pumped to be back, then on the coaching side, you can feel the energy and the excitement," Lawrence said. "Those guys are up here working all offseason trying to get everything ready so they're chomping at the bit by the time we get in because they get to actually do what they love and coach and have the players around.

"There's a good balance of just everybody's excited, very optimistic and a lot of energy."

Coen praised early offseason attendance, calling participation "very high." All offseason NFL work by rule is voluntary except for a three-day mid-June mandatory minicamp.

"We're very pleased, very appreciative of the guys for being here, taking the time – knowing that it is voluntary," Coen said. "It's definitely setting a positive standard right now."

The Jaguars currently are in Phase 1 of the offseason, with on-field activities limited to work with strength-and-conditioning coaches. This phase overall is limited to strength and conditioning, rehabilitation and meetings – the latter of which is when the new coaching staff can begin installing and introducing schemes.

"It's been really fun for me personally to actually be around the guys, to be doing a little bit of football," said Coen, who served as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offensive coordinator in 2024. "When you come from a position of only doing football and then you take a job in this position, you're doing a little bit less of that.

"So today I was able to get into the coaches' meetings with the players. Hearing them communicate, us all communicating on a high level … that's what really matters, is when the players get in. That's been a blast."

Coen said early offseason focus will be less on scheme and more on fundamentals, techniques and culture.

"We're not truly diving into the scheme at the moment," Coen said. "The way we're going to play the game, our style of play -- those are the two things we'd like to be able to get out of this, especially in Phase One where you're not on the grass with the players.

"We're really installing our basic core fundamentals and principles and techniques and then also the culture, our style of play, and our commitments as well."

And while NFL offseason programs allow no padded practices or full-contact work, and while 11-on-11 work is not allowed until organized team activities begin in Phase 3, Coen said progress can be made toward establishing the toughness expected.

"We actually had that conversation today with the establishing of the mindset, the way that we're going to do things, the way that we want the meetings to go," Coen said. "Coach Camp (Defensive Coordinator Anthony Campanile) said today, 'Our meetings should be tough.' We're learning new information. It's all very new for everybody. That's hard.

"It's hard to do for a coach, for a player. It's hard to learn. So when you do hard things and you come out on the other end, usually you say, 'Well, I got tougher from that.'

"We do believe we can start to establish that."

NOTABLE

• The Jaguars on Monday announced they had exercised the fifth-year option on defensive end Travon Walker, the No. 1 overall selection in the 2022 NFL Draft. This means Walker remains under contract through the 2026 season. "This is somebody we know we want to be part of," Coen said. NFL first-round draft selections sign four-year contracts, with teams able to exercise an option on a fifth year in the third offseason following the player being drafted. The team has not exercised the option on linebacker Devin Lloyd, the No. 27 overall selection in the '22 draft. "No plans right now," Coen said of Lloyd. "We're having those conversations, getting used to the player. We just have to get used to him a little bit, get to know him a little bit. We're excited about him. We feel excited about some of his versatility and experience. Those conversations will be open, honest and communicated."