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Coen accepted Tampa Bay's contract offer, ghosted the team when it was time to sign said contract, secretly flew down to Jacksonville to meet with owner Shad Khan in the wake of GM Trent Baalke's firing,

The Jacksonville Jaguars are interviewing Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen for their head coaching job after all after firing GM Trent Baalke.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have found their first piece of the puzzle in the offseason. The Jaguars now have a new head coach in Jacksonville. The Jaguars got for

The Jacksonville Jaguars have hired Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen as their new head coach, the team announced on Friday.

The strange saga that reportedly ended with Liam Coen deciding to become head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars is not sitting well with his

Later Thursday night, it was learned that Coen would take the Jacksonville job. The Buccaneers seem to have strongly reacted to this defection.

Coen crushed his virtual interview with Khan last week and seemed to be the owner’s top choice, especially after Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson took the Bears job.

Coen was reportedly expected to sign a new three-year extension with Tampa Bay to make him the highest-paid coordinator in NFL history, but he surprisingly flew to Jacksonville instead.

Even as Liam Coen was officially being named the Jaguars' head coach Friday afternoon, there was a twist from the typical playbook. An NFL insider said that Coen felt “strong-armed” into agreeing to a deal to withdraw his name from consideration for the Jacksonville job by agreeing with the Bucs to become the highest-paid coordinator in football at more than $4.

New Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Coen isn't taking this lightly: "Becoming the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars is an opportunity of a lifetime."