September 22, 2025 • 14 mins
Jaguars HC Liam Coen speaks to the media on Monday of Week 4 during the 2025 NFL Season.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Uh, no updates yet. We're still looking into 'em. Yeah,
we just gotta see what it is. I mean, so
early when when it comes to you know, just the
receiver guys or day, some of the alignment stuff and
the drops are do you attribute that to just getting
(00:22):
things together in your scheme? Yeah, I mean concentration details
all that. You know, obviously there's some moving pieces when
when Diami went down, you know, so we just gotta
look at who's gonna end up playing some of those
positions if he if in fact he can't go, which
who knows, So you know, just gotta detail it detail.
(00:44):
They gotta get more on the drugs and get a
better connection. Have you used the chip blocks of les?
If you're giving your tackles and help, what's the technique
for those running backs to do that? Yeah? Tackles? Yeah, fine, line,
Like we always tell him, if in fact you're in
a chip position and the defense, the defender jumps inside
(01:06):
of you, don't don't hit him, you know, just let
him go because sometimes you'll you'll accelerate the rush if
you do try to chip him as he's going inside.
So we try to align in that position, and you know,
we want him outside of us if possible to be
able to kind of release through the defender instead of
(01:29):
truly always chipping him. You know. So sometimes it's just
the alignment. Sometimes it's obviously chipping from the backfield. It's
a fine line and it's something that ultimately you need
to do in some you know, instances. Excuse me, but
you know, maybe there's sometimes that we don't have to
as well, because you know, I think Anton did some
(01:50):
nice things as well. Getting into the met long pass
just does that kind of show just how far in
your system. Yeah, that was a play that he's extremely
comfortable with and same play he got to remember when
the mic cut out in the preseason game against the Saints,
(02:12):
where he just got to a play and obviously has
confidence with that play he did. It showed a lot
of ownership of the system in terms of, okay, it's
a run to pass, zero blitz, get to a protection,
and go execute the play at a high level. So
it definitely should serve as I think, hopefully a springboard
(02:34):
for us to continue to gain confidence and execution in
the past game. So, you know, it was a really
well executed play and a critical moment for us playing
better than the number might say he is right now, Yeah,
I think so in some ways for sure. You know,
obviously it's hard when you know, okay, you may miss
a few throws, and then when you do make some,
(02:56):
we don't catch them. That's frustrating for sure. I don't
you know, I don't know how many it truly was
at the end of the day. I think it was
around four or five. So you look at it statistically,
then yeah, it should probably be higher than a fifty
percent completion percentage. And then there's some throws that you
know he needs to make and he knows that, and
it's not a negative. It's just, hey man, we got
(03:18):
to make these throws, and how can we help you,
you know, from a footwork standpoint or you know, an
accuracy standpoint some of those things. There's some tight window
throws too that are are difficult. But I've been very
proud of Trevor's the preparation, the way that he's gone
about it, and then the scramble that he made and
a critical third down yesterday. You know that there is
(03:40):
a lot of resiliency out of him in that group.
In general, a girl afraid the drops or private drops
are kind of popping up. It's hard for me, you know,
it's hard. It's one of those things that whether it's
you know, the real thing that we're trying to communicate
is just not letting the ball cross our eyes, regardless
of where it is. Anytime you let the ball obviously
(04:04):
into your body, there's chance that it could not get caught.
And when we let it cross our eyes is typically
where you see a lot of drops happen, not just
here but around the league, you know. So it's something
that you don't anticipate, especially like Parker's been catching the
heck out of it right. He's going up making great plays.
(04:26):
He had a phenomenal week of practice. I've lost zero
confidence in Parker Washington. You know, it's not the way
it is. It's just, you know, who knows the moment,
whatever it is the time, I don't know. So something
that ultimately we have to continue to work on and
if we don't show the effort of improving it in practice,
then it's not going to just happen on Sundays. Would
(04:49):
you have preferred to Travis Cgm take a knee on
the one or the two on that play, given the
fact that it's their letting them score. What's your really
we should have you know, if we could have communicated
to be t on the two. You know where the
two minutes left right, they got two timeouts. We're at
(05:09):
the minus forty four. We have a run to pass check.
You're not kind of expecting it to go big, if
you will with the play call. It does if we
could have stayed in there, which I don't expect BT
to know that without any form of communication prior, if
we could have stayed in there, you make them burn
(05:30):
a timeout. Now it's a minute forty two, they have
one timeout. We are absolutely in what we call a
Rolex situation. We get down there a minute forty two,
two timeouts. That's not on anybody's chart, a Rolex situation,
not anywhere around the league. So they decided, I think,
(05:51):
maybe off the heels the last week playing Tampa, Tampa
doing it and having success with it. The thing you
look at is, let's say we hadn't been down there
very often throughout the game. So you get down there.
The worst thing that could occur is for us to
not score a touchdown, not at all the way that
they we were playing defensively, and you go and say, okay,
(06:13):
if you try not to score, basically is what you're
gonna do. You're gonna say, all right, maybe we don't
even score a touchdown. Who knows what could a penalty
could occur, You could get off side, a negative play
could occur, like, there's a lot of things that could happen,
and you say, okay, they're gonna get the ball back
with I think it was about fifty five seconds. If
(06:34):
we played it all out and they take timeouts, fifty
five seconds and let's just say you don't score and
you got a field goal with fifty five seconds, you're
up by three with no timeouts. I personally, with the
way that that game was going and the way we
were playing defensively, would much prefer to have a touchdown
lead and say all right, hey go beat us. So
those were the things that we talked through, and ultimately,
(06:58):
you know, I think it would have been different with
one time out. Understood that the defense was doing that.
But he said, unless you tell him not to score,
he's going to score every time. Yeah I appreciate that. So, yeah,
I appreciate that. It was It was one of those
that's right on the line, right and you're saying one
(07:18):
minute forty two one time out very different than a
minute forty two to two timeouts with the way our
defense was playing and saying that, and we hadn't scored
many points right up until that point, and so to
get a touchdown versus three, I just think was probably
more important for us. What you'd like about the physicality
(07:41):
and the secondary, especially Travis on our six tackles were
so all of them. I mean, you know, Tyson tackled
his tail off Travis as you saw it, made some
really nice tackles. Antonio Johnson had a good fill, Eric
and Dewey both. I mean, that whole crew has definitely
taking the mindset of Campy in the defense. The whole crew,
(08:06):
you know, I think Milo and Perk have done a
great job coaching those guys in the back end in
terms of the whole mindset and mentality of our defense
is showing up at all three levels, which is extremely
important for us moving forward. You know, it's a physical game,
and yes, there's so much that happens in the in
(08:26):
the secondary that is based off the pass game. Right
it's coverage, it's zone, it's man, it's making plays on
the ball. But when you have tackle guys that are
in the back end that come and fill and play
physically and violently. That's only going to help us as
we go through this deal. As you got in the
week three, now week four, is this when the chess
(08:48):
match really kicks in the gear play play color because
of two games fifty stas take. Yeah, well, you definitely
have more inventory to go off of on both sides
of the ball. In terms of the game planning. You're
starting to see and figure your teams out a little
bit more at these times, you know, just schematically and
(09:10):
just personnel wise, who they're trying to or who we're
trying to ultimately get touches to or get the ball
in their hands. What's our best schemes that we can
now start to really focus in on hone, in on
what do we do well and how do we continue
to put these guys in positions to succeed, and then
combating that on the other side. Right, So, yeah, I
(09:32):
definitely think with the more tape that we have on
both sides of the ball in all three phases, either
the scheme definitely continues to become a little bit more
important to combat what they do well and continue to
do things that we do well out of different looks
and formations and things like that. Yeah, the offense really
(09:53):
kind of get going, like it start really clicking and
team the last the level that you really wanted. No,
it was after week four, really, you know, it was
after week four. We actually I don't even know if
we hit one hundred yards rushing prior to that game,
you know, prior to week four in Tampa last year,
so might have had one hundred week one maybe around there,
(10:14):
but it took a little while. You know, you're ultimately
you're just trying to see who you are. What are
we best at? Right? Is it the zone? Is it
the gap? Is it mid zone and tight zone, wide zone,
whatever it is? And you know, what are our backs
best at? Right? Like, so much of it comes down
to the personnel what we're good at doing, and you know,
(10:35):
some of it this past week we did some different
things in terms of our inside zone versus mid zone.
We're good at midzone, so we should have just run
it and said stop us. So that's what we leaned
on more in the second half, which helped us. So yeah,
it it like that was what ETM literally just said
to me as we were walking in the dining hall,
(10:56):
was I was just expressed and frustration in myself getting
away from a few things that we do well, which
they also gave us some un scouted looks and played
more bear fronts and five down fronts. But it's like, man,
we're we're good at this, so let's let's do what
we're good at. Devinitely kind of came out and said
at a couple of weeks, I'm very proud of Devan.
(11:20):
He has shown a ton of resiliency and and just
the way that he prepared all summer and trained and
mentally got himself in a place where you know, he
went took it. He went and earned every opportunity that
he's had. You know, we were playing Ventral a little
(11:40):
bit and some because been tried a good camp. You know,
it wasn't like it was a negative on Devin. It
was just, man, we got a it's good to have
more guys that can play. But at this point, uh, Devins,
you know, not coming off the field the way he's
playing right now and playing really well in the rush,
getting after the quarterback and then man, the guy earned
got a T shirt today for attacking in special teams.
(12:03):
I mean, he's done a great job. So very very
happy with Devin and hopefully we can continue to go
here special teams that we were in punt safe and
so it was just that he was staying on the field. Yeah,
is it the start last week we're talking about are
(12:23):
finished games A week later, they go out there and
do it huge to not play your best, specifically on
one side of the ball and still come away with
a win. That is that is important, Like it's not
that's not results over process. These results do matter, as
we all know. And to see our guys stay connected
(12:45):
throughout the end of that game, the defense could have
easily been pointing fingers at the offense. There was not
a peep. There was just let's go back to work,
Let's get out there and go and execute, and we
got to go make a play to go and win
a division game like that, physical, tough finish comes down
(13:06):
to the wire. That is really big for us to
be able to move forward and have belief that we
can go and win tight games because obviously it wasn't
the case last week, and in a game you probably
felt like you played better in a lot of ways,
specifically on offense, defense had our back and really made
(13:27):
plays when we needed to at the end on offense.
So very very pleased with their ability to stay connected
and to finish a tough game the right way. That
the last scrimage when Trevor does change something because you're
watching live, is he mostly making the right decisions and
you can see in the same stum, Yeah, yeah, he's
(13:47):
making a lot of the right decisions. Yeah. So I've
been pleased with this. You know, the screen would have
been huge you checked this out of a run we
had a screen versus zero blitz, it would have been
a huge one which he got us into the right
play you know, ends up it gets tipped by Petrie
on the blitz. We're bluffing the blitzer throwing a screen
(14:07):
in the pressure, which we you know, that was nice
and just didn't get executed. But for the I would say,
I mean, there's probably five percent less than five percent
that he is not right on currently in the in
the cans and audibles and stuff like that. I've been
very pleased with his preparation. He has worked extremely hard
(14:27):
throughout the week at studying the plan, doing extra on
his own, and some of that is really helping us
Operate did his show in every statistical category on Sunday now,
but he is getting us in and out of the
right place. Yeah,
Uh, no updates yet. We're still looking into 'em. Yeah,
we just gotta see what it is. I mean, so
early when when it comes to you know, just the
receiver guys or day, some of the alignment stuff and
the drops are do you attribute that to just getting
(00:22):
things together in your scheme? Yeah, I mean concentration details
all that. You know, obviously there's some moving pieces when
when Diami went down, you know, so we just gotta
look at who's gonna end up playing some of those
positions if he if in fact he can't go, which
who knows, So you know, just gotta detail it detail.
(00:44):
They gotta get more on the drugs and get a
better connection. Have you used the chip blocks of les?
If you're giving your tackles and help, what's the technique
for those running backs to do that? Yeah? Tackles? Yeah, fine, line,
Like we always tell him, if in fact you're in
a chip position and the defense, the defender jumps inside
(01:06):
of you, don't don't hit him, you know, just let
him go because sometimes you'll you'll accelerate the rush if
you do try to chip him as he's going inside.
So we try to align in that position, and you know,
we want him outside of us if possible to be
able to kind of release through the defender instead of
(01:29):
truly always chipping him. You know. So sometimes it's just
the alignment. Sometimes it's obviously chipping from the backfield. It's
a fine line and it's something that ultimately you need
to do in some you know, instances. Excuse me, but
you know, maybe there's sometimes that we don't have to
as well, because you know, I think Anton did some
(01:50):
nice things as well. Getting into the met long pass
just does that kind of show just how far in
your system. Yeah, that was a play that he's extremely
comfortable with and same play he got to remember when
the mic cut out in the preseason game against the Saints,
(02:12):
where he just got to a play and obviously has
confidence with that play he did. It showed a lot
of ownership of the system in terms of, okay, it's
a run to pass, zero blitz, get to a protection,
and go execute the play at a high level. So
it definitely should serve as I think, hopefully a springboard
(02:34):
for us to continue to gain confidence and execution in
the past game. So, you know, it was a really
well executed play and a critical moment for us playing
better than the number might say he is right now, Yeah,
I think so in some ways for sure. You know,
obviously it's hard when you know, okay, you may miss
a few throws, and then when you do make some,
(02:56):
we don't catch them. That's frustrating for sure. I don't
you know, I don't know how many it truly was
at the end of the day. I think it was
around four or five. So you look at it statistically,
then yeah, it should probably be higher than a fifty
percent completion percentage. And then there's some throws that you
know he needs to make and he knows that, and
it's not a negative. It's just, hey man, we got
(03:18):
to make these throws, and how can we help you,
you know, from a footwork standpoint or you know, an
accuracy standpoint some of those things. There's some tight window
throws too that are are difficult. But I've been very
proud of Trevor's the preparation, the way that he's gone
about it, and then the scramble that he made and
a critical third down yesterday. You know that there is
(03:40):
a lot of resiliency out of him in that group.
In general, a girl afraid the drops or private drops
are kind of popping up. It's hard for me, you know,
it's hard. It's one of those things that whether it's
you know, the real thing that we're trying to communicate
is just not letting the ball cross our eyes, regardless
of where it is. Anytime you let the ball obviously
(04:04):
into your body, there's chance that it could not get caught.
And when we let it cross our eyes is typically
where you see a lot of drops happen, not just
here but around the league, you know. So it's something
that you don't anticipate, especially like Parker's been catching the
heck out of it right. He's going up making great plays.
(04:26):
He had a phenomenal week of practice. I've lost zero
confidence in Parker Washington. You know, it's not the way
it is. It's just, you know, who knows the moment,
whatever it is the time, I don't know. So something
that ultimately we have to continue to work on and
if we don't show the effort of improving it in practice,
then it's not going to just happen on Sundays. Would
(04:49):
you have preferred to Travis Cgm take a knee on
the one or the two on that play, given the
fact that it's their letting them score. What's your really
we should have you know, if we could have communicated
to be t on the two. You know where the
two minutes left right, they got two timeouts. We're at
(05:09):
the minus forty four. We have a run to pass check.
You're not kind of expecting it to go big, if
you will with the play call. It does if we
could have stayed in there, which I don't expect BT
to know that without any form of communication prior, if
we could have stayed in there, you make them burn
(05:30):
a timeout. Now it's a minute forty two, they have
one timeout. We are absolutely in what we call a
Rolex situation. We get down there a minute forty two,
two timeouts. That's not on anybody's chart, a Rolex situation,
not anywhere around the league. So they decided, I think,
(05:51):
maybe off the heels the last week playing Tampa, Tampa
doing it and having success with it. The thing you
look at is, let's say we hadn't been down there
very often throughout the game. So you get down there.
The worst thing that could occur is for us to
not score a touchdown, not at all the way that
they we were playing defensively, and you go and say, okay,
(06:13):
if you try not to score, basically is what you're
gonna do. You're gonna say, all right, maybe we don't
even score a touchdown. Who knows what could a penalty
could occur, You could get off side, a negative play
could occur, like, there's a lot of things that could happen,
and you say, okay, they're gonna get the ball back
with I think it was about fifty five seconds. If
(06:34):
we played it all out and they take timeouts, fifty
five seconds and let's just say you don't score and
you got a field goal with fifty five seconds, you're
up by three with no timeouts. I personally, with the
way that that game was going and the way we
were playing defensively, would much prefer to have a touchdown
lead and say all right, hey go beat us. So
those were the things that we talked through, and ultimately,
(06:58):
you know, I think it would have been different with
one time out. Understood that the defense was doing that.
But he said, unless you tell him not to score,
he's going to score every time. Yeah I appreciate that. So, yeah,
I appreciate that. It was It was one of those
that's right on the line, right and you're saying one
(07:18):
minute forty two one time out very different than a
minute forty two to two timeouts with the way our
defense was playing and saying that, and we hadn't scored
many points right up until that point, and so to
get a touchdown versus three, I just think was probably
more important for us. What you'd like about the physicality
(07:41):
and the secondary, especially Travis on our six tackles were
so all of them. I mean, you know, Tyson tackled
his tail off Travis as you saw it, made some
really nice tackles. Antonio Johnson had a good fill, Eric
and Dewey both. I mean, that whole crew has definitely
taking the mindset of Campy in the defense. The whole crew,
(08:06):
you know, I think Milo and Perk have done a
great job coaching those guys in the back end in
terms of the whole mindset and mentality of our defense
is showing up at all three levels, which is extremely
important for us moving forward. You know, it's a physical game,
and yes, there's so much that happens in the in
(08:26):
the secondary that is based off the pass game. Right
it's coverage, it's zone, it's man, it's making plays on
the ball. But when you have tackle guys that are
in the back end that come and fill and play
physically and violently. That's only going to help us as
we go through this deal. As you got in the
week three, now week four, is this when the chess
(08:48):
match really kicks in the gear play play color because
of two games fifty stas take. Yeah, well, you definitely
have more inventory to go off of on both sides
of the ball. In terms of the game planning. You're
starting to see and figure your teams out a little
bit more at these times, you know, just schematically and
(09:10):
just personnel wise, who they're trying to or who we're
trying to ultimately get touches to or get the ball
in their hands. What's our best schemes that we can
now start to really focus in on hone, in on
what do we do well and how do we continue
to put these guys in positions to succeed, and then
combating that on the other side. Right, So, yeah, I
(09:32):
definitely think with the more tape that we have on
both sides of the ball in all three phases, either
the scheme definitely continues to become a little bit more
important to combat what they do well and continue to
do things that we do well out of different looks
and formations and things like that. Yeah, the offense really
(09:53):
kind of get going, like it start really clicking and
team the last the level that you really wanted. No,
it was after week four, really, you know, it was
after week four. We actually I don't even know if
we hit one hundred yards rushing prior to that game,
you know, prior to week four in Tampa last year,
so might have had one hundred week one maybe around there,
(10:14):
but it took a little while. You know, you're ultimately
you're just trying to see who you are. What are
we best at? Right? Is it the zone? Is it
the gap? Is it mid zone and tight zone, wide zone,
whatever it is? And you know, what are our backs
best at? Right? Like, so much of it comes down
to the personnel what we're good at doing, and you know,
(10:35):
some of it this past week we did some different
things in terms of our inside zone versus mid zone.
We're good at midzone, so we should have just run
it and said stop us. So that's what we leaned
on more in the second half, which helped us. So yeah,
it it like that was what ETM literally just said
to me as we were walking in the dining hall,
(10:56):
was I was just expressed and frustration in myself getting
away from a few things that we do well, which
they also gave us some un scouted looks and played
more bear fronts and five down fronts. But it's like, man,
we're we're good at this, so let's let's do what
we're good at. Devinitely kind of came out and said
at a couple of weeks, I'm very proud of Devan.
(11:20):
He has shown a ton of resiliency and and just
the way that he prepared all summer and trained and
mentally got himself in a place where you know, he
went took it. He went and earned every opportunity that
he's had. You know, we were playing Ventral a little
(11:40):
bit and some because been tried a good camp. You know,
it wasn't like it was a negative on Devin. It
was just, man, we got a it's good to have
more guys that can play. But at this point, uh, Devins,
you know, not coming off the field the way he's
playing right now and playing really well in the rush,
getting after the quarterback and then man, the guy earned
got a T shirt today for attacking in special teams.
(12:03):
I mean, he's done a great job. So very very
happy with Devin and hopefully we can continue to go
here special teams that we were in punt safe and
so it was just that he was staying on the field. Yeah,
is it the start last week we're talking about are
(12:23):
finished games A week later, they go out there and
do it huge to not play your best, specifically on
one side of the ball and still come away with
a win. That is that is important, Like it's not
that's not results over process. These results do matter, as
we all know. And to see our guys stay connected
(12:45):
throughout the end of that game, the defense could have
easily been pointing fingers at the offense. There was not
a peep. There was just let's go back to work,
Let's get out there and go and execute, and we
got to go make a play to go and win
a division game like that, physical, tough finish comes down
(13:06):
to the wire. That is really big for us to
be able to move forward and have belief that we
can go and win tight games because obviously it wasn't
the case last week, and in a game you probably
felt like you played better in a lot of ways,
specifically on offense, defense had our back and really made
(13:27):
plays when we needed to at the end on offense.
So very very pleased with their ability to stay connected
and to finish a tough game the right way. That
the last scrimage when Trevor does change something because you're
watching live, is he mostly making the right decisions and
you can see in the same stum, Yeah, yeah, he's
(13:47):
making a lot of the right decisions. Yeah. So I've
been pleased with this. You know, the screen would have
been huge you checked this out of a run we
had a screen versus zero blitz, it would have been
a huge one which he got us into the right
play you know, ends up it gets tipped by Petrie
on the blitz. We're bluffing the blitzer throwing a screen
(14:07):
in the pressure, which we you know, that was nice
and just didn't get executed. But for the I would say,
I mean, there's probably five percent less than five percent
that he is not right on currently in the in
the cans and audibles and stuff like that. I've been
very pleased with his preparation. He has worked extremely hard
(14:27):
throughout the week at studying the plan, doing extra on
his own, and some of that is really helping us
Operate did his show in every statistical category on Sunday now,
but he is getting us in and out of the
right place. Yeah,
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