Liam Coen Is Prepared For Consequences Of His Own Success

At his exit interview, nan occurrence wrong Liam Coen shone through. It was evident that he was still mourning nan Jacksonville Jaguars' nonaccomplishment to nan Buffalo Bills successful nan Wild Card Round. Despite falling short successful nan playoffs, Coen exceeded each expectations successful his first play arsenic an NFL caput coach.

He inherited a four-win squad and transformed it into what looked for illustration a morganatic Super Bowl contender successful 1 year. Now, he and nan remainder of nan Jaguars' brass person to find a measurement to get over nan hump. Jumping from 4 wins to 13 is nary easy task. Turning a Wild Card exit into a title mightiness beryllium ever harder. And he mightiness not person his lieutenants by his broadside for this adjacent campaign.

Liam Coen is preparing for nan worst

The Jacksonville Jaguars aren't utilized to this. This franchise has historically been nan spot wherever coaches spell to die. Gus Bradley, Doug Marrone, Urban Meyer, Doug Pederson, etc. Nary has location been a sideline schemer from Duval who went connected to unrecorded their large metropolis dreams. That mightiness beryllium changing this year.

Less than a week aft nan Jaguars were eliminated from nan playoffs, Offensive Coordinator Grant Udinski has scheduled an question and reply pinch nan Cleveland Browns for Saturday, January 14. Parts of nan fanbase are already enthralled pinch nan thought of landing nan adjacent Liam Coen. Defensive Coordinator Anthony Campanile is group to audition for nan Miami Dolphins' job. Coen was asked astir nan imaginable of losing some of his apical consiglieres this offseason:

"I mean, some those guys did a awesome occupation this twelvemonth and were successful their first years doing those roles and responsibilities, and truthful immoderate clip you person success, you're going to person group travel and telephone and sound connected nan door. Those guys person earned immoderate of those interviews and opportunities. Whether those hap this year, down nan line, I deliberation some those guys are early caput coaches astatine immoderate point. That conscionable comes on pinch nan territory. It comes pinch it. It's nan bittersweetness of our profession."

"You want to proceed to springiness group opportunities to turn while besides protecting your merchandise and what you do present and really you operate, truthful it's decidedly a good statement that you walk, but it's opportunity, and they've earned those opportunities to question and reply for those positions, and you effort to thief them on that process arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. Do I expect losing those guys aliases galore coaches from this staff? Not sure. I'm not judge what that looks like. That yet isn't my decision, and we person to beryllium prepared. We person to deliberation astir what are nan adjacent steps if those things were to happen. Those are conversations that we're having correct now."

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