NFL-Insides reveals the reason for ‘secrecy’ in Liam Coen, Jaguar’s head coach conversations

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The news that Buccane’s offensive coordinator Liam Coen was in Jacksonville on Thursday to meet with Jaguars to discuss the team’s vacant head coach position just 24 hours after it was reported that Coen would return to Tampa on a new contract.

NFL-Insider Albert Breer gave further context to what may have caused Thursday’s meeting to be done in secret, even though Coen withdrew from the coach search on Wednesday.

“Buccaneers offered a 3-year deal on Monday to make their OC the best-paid coordinator in NFL’s history. It was conditional on him not taking the second interview with the hunting , ” Breer reported.

Breer also revealed where Coen is currently between Bucs and Jags.

“Just a wild situation” He followed up. “Great to say that Coen is on its way to becoming Jaguars’ next head coach, and is almost certainly done with Buccaneers in both ways.”

While Coen originally told Buccaneers that he would stay in Tampa, Jacksonville reportedly reached out to Coen after the team fired GM Trent Baalke to see if he would reconsider The offer. According to Breer’s report, it seems that Coen has done so.

When reports came that Coen would return to Tampa, Buccaneers looked under the assumption that Coen would be in Tampa next season when the new contract had been agreed. Coen, however, never set pen to paper and the deal with BUCS, according to Athletics Dianna Russiniwas never signed.

Coen comes after his first season in Tampa Bay and was hired by BUC’s head coach Todd Bowles to replace Dave Canales, who continued to take the head coach job at Carolina Panthers last season.

He inherited the league’s No. 23 ranked wrongdoing the year before and guided that unit to a No. 3 finish in 2024. Buccaneers had an average of 399.5 yards and 29.5 points per year. Fight during the first year OC.

If he is hired by Jacksonville, Coen will take over the deposed Doug Pederson. Pederson spent three seasons as Jaguar’s head coach, which led them to 9-8 seasons in a row in 2022 and 2023, before ending with a record of 4-13 in the past season.