Press Taylor shares what he wants to see out of the Jags’ offensive line tonight

The Jaguars must decide on the number of offensive linemen to keep based on their performance tonight against the Atlanta Falcons.

Press Taylor, the Jaguars' offensive coordinator, met with the media and talked about what he has seen from the offensive line and what he's looking for in the preseason finale.

On if he thinks the offensive line has improved more in protection or run blocking during training camp

Press: It’s a good question, because again still, you don’t have all these live periods, so it’s always hard to really get an evaluation of where we’re at with things. We do feel very good about the progress we’ve made in both aspects, but particularly the run game. Just our targeting, our identification of what we’re trying to get accomplished of getting essentially 11 guys on the exact same page with every single look we see. Now, in terms of moving a defender from point A to point B, that’s the part that you’re not 100 percent sure you’ve been able to see yet. Other than when we get into these games. We haven’t played all five of our guys together at the same time yet—our anticipated five. Not too many snaps at the same point yet. That’s something we’ll continue to see. Again, we have time moving into Week 1 before we get ready for that, but we’re confident in where we’re headed with that.

On the importance of the starting offensive linemen getting game reps together as a unit

Press: Yeah, I think that's a big thing. Aligning in the huddle next to each other, breaking the huddle, communicating next to each other, and then there's still the timing of game reps, of how fast things happen. I would still say preseason is not quite the step that regular season is going to be, but it's just one more step in the progress that we want to take to get ready for Week 1.

On OL Cole Van Lanen’s consistency during training camp

Press: I think that's fair to say. He's done a great job really since the spring, kind of just buying into everything we're trying to coach in the run game and protection world as well. He's really flashing the run game for us on the backside of a lot of concepts and we've kind of noticed that from way back when. It's cool to see him play well in these preseason games as well.