Liam Cohen Becomes Jacksonville Jaguars New Head Coach

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00:00Let's get to the other rookie head coach in a new situation.

00:04Liam Cohen in Jacksonville.

00:06Scott, late last week, it was a wild 48-hour span.

00:10Liam Cohen pulling himself out of the running for Jacksonville's head coaching job,

00:14the Jags fire.

00:15Trent Balky, Liam Cohen was going to resign with Tampa to become the offensive coordinator.

00:20He goes to them, takes a secret interview in Jacksonville,

00:24ultimately becoming the next head coach of the Jaguars.

00:27Yesterday was introduced.

00:29I'm sure everybody has seen the clip around social media

00:32of him talking about the county in Florida that Jacksonville is located,

00:36Duval, in the weird way that he said it.

00:40But outside of that one clip that, of course,

00:43there's always going to be one in the introductory press conference cycle,

00:47I thought he actually had a lot of substance to say in fixating Scott,

00:51making the focus of this franchise moving forward,

00:53the quarterback in Trevor Lawrence,

00:55a guy that Liam Cohen claims to know very well since his high school days in Georgia.

01:01Yeah, what a weird situation, right?

01:04I actually thought going in with Trevor Lawrence,

01:06that this was one of the better situations,

01:08you know, nice, easy division,

01:10you know, great facility and an owner that wants to win,

01:14albeit going over to Europe a couple times,

01:15but you'll deal with that, right?

01:16So I thought on paper, this was it, you know,

01:18they fired Doug Peterson, but they keep the GM,

01:20which we all thought was weird at the time.

01:22And now we get a bunch of head coaches that apparently,

01:25or at least head coaches in wanting that said,

01:28no, they don't want to go there because of Trent Baalke.

01:30I still say, Ben, there wasn't one guy out there that went to ShotKon,

01:34the owner of the Jaguars and said, I'll work with him.

01:37Yeah, he's the greatest guy in the world.

01:39Absolutely love Trent Baalke.

01:41I wouldn't be interested in this job if it wasn't for Trent Baalke.

01:44Say whatever you have to say to get a head coaching job.

01:47I mean, there's only 32 of these things, right?

01:50No matter how bad of a situation you may think it might be,

01:52but sell your point on getting the head coaching job

01:56and then deal with Baalke later on down the line.

01:58But I guess not.

02:00And I guess they wanted Cohen so badly that they were then

02:03going to turn back the clock and fire the GM

02:06like they should have done two weeks ago when they fired Peterson.

02:09But what a weird, you know, weird, weird situation that really is.

02:13It certainly is an interesting situation, Scott.

02:16I think it speaks to Jacksonville,

02:18which should be an attractive destination for a new head coach,

02:21but didn't really seem to be early in this coaching cycle.

02:25If you are Liam Cohen and you do believe in Trevor Lawrence

02:29as the future of your franchise,

02:31you really have kind of handcrafted your scenario though in Jacksonville.

02:36You got the old GM fired.

02:38The owner is going to listen to you

02:40and you have a quarterback to utilize moving forward.

02:43Is that going to be enough with the Jaguars?

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