{"id":227337,"date":"2025-09-14T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:42:12","slug":"jaguars-coach-liam-coen-downplays-spat-with-trevor-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227337\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars coach Liam Coen downplays spat with Trevor Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757893332_225_dirocco_michael.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Michael DiRoccoSep 14, 2025, 07:17 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN and the Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Liam Coen admits he was angry that quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"76111495-d1d9-2333-170d-4206eebe673f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4360310\/trevor-lawrence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Lawrence<\/a> missed a potential touchdown throw, but the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca6fb778-cbf6-d9a3-3e93-01230335fcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/jax\/jacksonville-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> head coach said he was just reacting in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras caught Coen gesturing to Lawrence that he wanted him to throw the ball to receiver <a data-player-guid=\"2c787d57-fd60-9e8b-1e7f-d8aecc7a4cbb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361577\/dyami-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dyami Brown<\/a>&#8216;s body instead of throwing it higher, which is what happened on the second-and-goal play from the Cincinnati 7-yard line early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pissed,&#8221; Coen said after the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"75b8623b-8926-b411-0476-3d3602b78523\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals<\/a>&#8216; 31-27 victory at Paycor Stadium. &#8220;It is what it is. That&#8217;s emotion. It&#8217;s not personal ever. That&#8217;s just kind of me getting worked up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46259339\/bengals-joe-burrow-leaves-game-vs-jaguars-injured-toe\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1545492_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46209485\/nfl-week-2-2025-season-questions-takeaways-lessons-stats-recap-every-game\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1545648_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after saying that, he praised Lawrence&#8217;s next throw, which was to receiver <a data-player-guid=\"f7b37472-30a8-395c-8ade-5462fbda15d4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4432773\/brian-thomas-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Thomas Jr<\/a>., which was incomplete as well because it bounced off Thomas&#8217; hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He threw a dime in the back of the end zone,&#8221; Coen said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t make a play. I was very pleased with [Lawrence&#8217;s] competitive nature. The way he stayed calm on the sidelines. He&#8217;s pretty even keeled, which is good for me. I need that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, who waved Coen&#8217;s criticism off, said he likes that Coen is so animated and that some of his enthusiasm has rubbed off on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach is really passionate, which is something that I&#8217;ve noticed ever since he&#8217;s been here,&#8221; Lawrence said. &#8220;I love that about him, and we&#8217;ll get fired up. There&#8217;s times where I&#8217;m not always that way, I&#8217;m kind of a little more like this [holding his hands on a level line], but he&#8217;s honestly brought a little bit more of that out of me, which I think has been good for our offense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve kind of fed off of him and there&#8217;s times we get excited and get fired up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoSep 14, 2025, 07:17 PM ET Close Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-227337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205304909898626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}