Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and, thus, will work with first-year head coach Liam Coen through at least the 2025 season.
During a recent appearance on FanDuel TV’s “Up & Adams Show with Kay Adams,” Lawrence explained how the “energy” Coen has already brought the Jaguars is something the organization needed following all that went wrong for the club from December 2023 through this past January.
“We’ve been through a lot,” Lawrence acknowledged, as shared by Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. “The last two seasons have been…not what we expected after what we did two years ago. And I think this team just needs some juice, and I know [Coen is] going to bring that. As players, I’m ready to lead and bring that as well. Because we all have to buy in, right? We have to buy into what he’s doing, the culture he’s trying to set, or we don’t have a shot. So, that’s our responsibility, is to buy into what he wants us to be and the identity we want to have as a team and take it and run with it.”
The Jaguars notched a playoff win in January 2023 and started the subsequent campaign with eight victories over 11 games. However, Jacksonville then went 5-18 across the following 23 contests before head coach Doug Pederson was shown the door.
In his lone season serving as offensive coordinator with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Coen helped Baker Mayfield enjoy the best campaign, to date, of his career. Per Pro Football Reference, Mayfield ended the 2024 regular season ranked fourth in the league among qualified players with a 106.8 passer rating, third with 4,500 passing yards and tied for second with 41 passing touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Lawrence noticeably regressed this past fall before he was shut down in early December so he could undergo shoulder surgery.
“…Obviously what he did with the Bucs last year — I’m really excited just from a football perspective of the scheme, the offense we’re going to run, how he sets everything up, the run game, I’m just really, really excited for that,” Lawrence added about having Coen as his new head coach.
Lawrence signed a five-year contract extension last offseason that could be worth up to $275M. While there’s no reason to believe Coen is already thinking about finding a replacement at the sport’s most important position, history has shown that a new regime often only has so much patience regarding a quarterback it didn’t select.
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