The Jacksonville Jaguars employed former Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen as their head coach over the offseason as a final gasp at salvaging the Trevor Lawrence period. Jacksonville acquired aggressive within the draft by buying and selling up for Travis Hunter on the expense of subsequent 12 months’s first-round choose. The early outcomes haven’t all the time been fairly, however they’ve been efficient. The Jags have been 2-1 with wins over the lowly Houston Texans and Carolina Panthers, and now they have been dealing with an unbeaten San Francisco 49ers group that was getting beginning QB Brock Purdy again.
The Jaguars dug deep and delivered one other win with a 26-21 victory over the 49ers. Jacksonville ran the ball properly all afternoon, with Travis Etienne Jr. ripping off 124 yards and a landing on 19 carries. The Jacksonville protection additionally picked off Purdy twice. Nobody was happier to get the win than Coen.
After the sport, Coen had a message for 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh: “Keep my name out of your mouth.” All of it goes again to one thing Saleh stated to the press heading into the sport. Watch Coen hunt down Saleh after the sport right here:
Two days earlier than the sport, Saleh raised eyebrows when he stated Coen had a “really advanced signal-stealing type system” together with a couple of assistant coaches. Saleh stated that signal stealing runs within the household with regards to the Sean McVay teaching tree. Right here’s the total quote:
“Jacksonville, this is a very young but talented group. Liam and his staff, a couple of guys coming from Minnesota, they’ve got legally, a really advanced signal-stealing type system where they always find a way to put themselves in an advantageous situation,” Saleh stated forward of Sunday’s matchup, per the group transcript. “They do a great job with it. They formation you to just try to find any nugget they can. So, we’ve got to be great with our signals and we’ve got to be great with our communication to combat some of the tells that we might give on the field.”
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“They’re almost elite in that regard. That whole entire tree from Sean to Kevin O’Connell to all those guys, they all do it,” he stated. “So, there’s challenges. They’re going to catch us in some situations where they have the advantage and we’ve just got to play good, sound, fundamental football and do our best to out-execute them.”
Coen shot down questions concerning the interplay after the sport:
Coen clearly didn’t just like the remark, and getting the win just a bit bit sweeter.
