Coen: Blame for Jaguars' loss 'starts with me'

LONDON -- After watching a 2nd consecutive crippled successful which his squad started dilatory connected offense, made galore mistakes and committed double-digit penalties (including 1 that wiped retired a touchdown), Jacksonville Jaguars manager Liam Coen knew precisely who to blame: himself.

"It's decidedly frustrating, but conscionable similar everybody other successful there, you've got to look inward first," helium said aft the Jaguars' 35-7 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Rams astatine Wembley Stadium connected Sunday. "Like, what americium I doing arsenic the caput shot manager that's not wide close now? How americium I communicating these things? How americium I and however are we practicing these things?

"That's what I've got to look at, right?"

He'll commencement doing that connected Sunday night's nine-hour formation backmost to Jacksonville, Florida, and volition proceed passim the bye week. Instead of feeling bully astir the team's 4-3 commencement -- which is simply a astonishment based connected preseason expectations -- Coen and the unit volition beryllium evaluating everything they're doing.

The 28-point nonaccomplishment to the Rams -- the worst since the 46-point decision astatine Detroit Lions successful Week 11 past play -- has dampened the enthusiasm and momentum earned from the victories astatine San Francisco and implicit Kansas City connected "Monday Night Football" successful Weeks 4 and 5.

"I've got to look astatine the full thing, ultimately, but not going to basal up present and blasted these players," Coen said. "It starts with me."

The Jaguars committed 13 penalties for 119 yards -- including an amerciable artifact by Jarrian Jones that wiped retired Parker Washington's 61-yard punt instrumentality for a touchdown -- and had 4 drops (two by Brian Thomas Jr.). They managed conscionable 20 yards successful the archetypal 4th and trailed 21-0 with 4:37 to play successful the archetypal half.

It didn't get overmuch amended aft that.

In the Jaguars' last 2 drives of the archetypal fractional and their archetypal 2 of the 2nd they missed a 50-yard tract extremity and gave up the shot connected downs 3 consecutive times.

"We person to commencement the games faster," said backmost Trevor Lawrence, who completed 23-of-48 passes for 296 yards and a touchdown. "I tin lone talk connected my perspective. Freshly disconnected the game, determination are immoderate plays that I got to marque aboriginal to get america going, and it's regular stuff.

"... You know, it's not similar we didn't person a bully program oregon thing similar that. Some self-inflicted wounds. If we tin cleanable that up and conscionable enactment connected docket ... I deliberation that's wherever you are seeing the dilatory starts and past we're getting behind, and past it's a bully squad similar L.A. When you get down 14 points close distant due to the fact that you commencement dilatory and person immoderate 3 and outs, it's pugnacious sledding from there. We got to find a mode to get backmost to starting the crippled faster, connected schedule, and conscionable play ball."

Coen did accidental the Jaguars would beryllium evaluating unit implicit the bye week and hinted that determination could beryllium lineup changes erstwhile they resume against the Las Vegas Raiders connected Nov. 2.

"We've got to look astatine the self-scout successful each 3 phases," helium said. "We've got to look astatine unit successful each 3 phases, however we're utilizing it, however we aren't utilizing it, and wherever bash we request to usage guys more, usage guys less. It's...