In the span of just over 24 hours, Liam Coen went from spurning the Jacksonville Jaguars to becoming their coach.

Coen agreed to become the Jaguars coach on Thursday, informing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers he was taking the job, according to multiple reports.

On Wednesday, Coen reportedly told the Jaguars he wasn't interested in the job and agreed to stay with the Buccaneers as their offensive coordinator with a new contract that would make him one of the highest-paid assistants in the league.

Later Wednesday, the Jaguars fired general manager Trent Baalke, and Coen was then open to the head coaching job. It had wildly been speculated that multiple coaching candidates didn't want to work with Baalke.

Coen never met to sign his new deal with Tampa Bay, however, and instead secretly travelled to Jacksonville to discuss the coaching vacancy. The two sides were finalising a deal with an official announcement expected Friday.

He'll now take over a Jacksonville team that went 4-13 in 2024 and fired Doug Pederson at season's end.

The 39-year-old Coen served as offensive coordinator for Tampa Bay for just one season, helping direct an offence that ranked fourth in the NFL in scoring with an average of 29.5 points as the Buccaneers went 10-7 to win a fourth consecutive NFC South crown.

This will be his first head-coaching job.

 

After not hearing from Liam Coen for much of Wednesday and Thursday, the Bucs have now gotten word from him that, yes, he's taking the head-coaching job in Jacksonville. https://t.co/cpq6e1OzkF

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 24, 2025