Jaguars Have a Clean Day 7 of OTAs

The result was a slightly more pleasant environment for the non-padded, voluntary session.

“Early on you set a schedule and then you have to always be fluid,” Coen said. “If we are going to just sit here and say we are going to bang our heads against the wall and do a long practice, what’s the point? The goal is to get good, quality work for them to walk off the field during OTAs feeling like they got lathered up.

“They got a good workout in, but not to just have them keeled over dying. That’s not this phase. That’s not what this is about. Do we want to stress them physically and mentally? Absolutely, but to me this is more of a mental, above-the-neck time to stress these guys.

“So yeah, after the first couple we kind of peeled back a little bit and just kind of freshen it up a little bit.”

Coen called Monday’s work “probably the most balanced” of the seven OTA workouts over the past two-plus weeks since Phase 3 of the offseason program began May 19.

“It was where offense makes a play, defense comes back, makes a play,” Coen said. “I thought it was just a good competitive back and forth, whereas maybe in days prior there’s been more, ‘OK, the offense has a really good day and the defense not, and vice versa. Defense has a good day and the offense is ticked off – specifically myself.’

“I thought today was just a good balance of guys making plays and then coming back, ‘OK, who needs to make a play? Who’s going to stop the bleeding on each side when maybe the offense or defense is making more?’

“That competitive balance maybe has progressed over the last six or seven practices. Just some of the fundamentals were cleaned up a little bit today. Was it perfect? No. But I think that’s maybe an area where we progressed in previous weeks.”