Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen expected to be next Jaguar’s head coach

With Baalke out of the picture, it looks like Coen regained interest in the opening. Jacksonville’s fascination with Coen was certainly understandable. Coen directed Buccaneers to a top-4 ranking in Total Yards, Beatingyards and Rushing Yards Per Fight in his first season as Tampa Bay’s Play-Caller, and helped Baker Mayfield reset his career-high characters in the careingyards (4,500) -Touchdowns. (41) along the way.

Perhaps even more remarkable was the revival of Tampa Bay’s rushing attack, which ended death -last in Yard’s Per Fight in 2023 and experienced an incredible turn in 2024, running a three -man’s backfield with the headlined by Rookie Bucky Irving in fourth place in Rushing. Yards per. Fight in 2024.

Although trained by a defensively set person in Bowles, Buccaneers became an offensive team by 2024 because of Coen’s ability to pull most of its players.

Irving’s success (207 Carries, 1,122 Yards, Eight Rushing Touchdowns) drove him to the top of the depth diagram in the second half of the season, while Rachaad White and former unknown bruiser Sean Tucker returned to 921 yards and five touchdowns. . Mayfield even got success through the air without his top two goals – Mike Evans and Chris Godwin – leaned up by Tight -end Cade Otton and the budding star -rookie Jalen McMillan to keep their offensive machine going. When Evans returned, he joined forces with Mayfield to lead Buccaneers to another NFC South title, clearing 1,000 yard receiving mark on the last game of the regular season.

Coen comes from Sean McVay’s coach tree, after spending time during McVay in Los Angeles before jumping between Rams and the University of Kentucky for a few seasons. When Dave Canales left Tampa to take the Panthers’ top job in 2024, Buccaneers turned to Coen to orchestrate the attack and enjoyed the fruits of his work in 2024, and then Mayfield surpassed his own ceiling, previously put under Canales.

These quick results were strong enough to convince Jaguars that Coen was the one they needed to pair with Quarterback Trevor Lawrence in an attempt to get the former # 1 election back on track, and thus the whole of Jaguars- The series. Jacksonville has been on riot since its collapse in the second half to finish the 2023 season, missed the playoffs in spectacular ways and seen the negative results infect a 4-13 finish in 2024.

These results left the owner Shad Khan dissatisfied enough to fire Pederson, and first supported Baalke before turning the course and firing the GM in what seems to have been an attempt to land Coen. Eventually, Khan’s Club, which now has to hire a general manager who is able to work with Coen to shape Jaguar’s future in his vision.

After signing Lawrence for an extension last season, that vision will include the Clemson product. The rest lacks to be determined for Jaguars who will try to repeat Buccaneers’ success under the leadership of their meteoric play-caller.