{"id":116123,"date":"2026-01-13T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:43:16","slug":"jacksonville-free-press-reporters-comments-to-jags-coach-liam-coen-after-playoff-loss-spark-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116123\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Free Press reporter&#8217;s comments to Jags coach Liam Coen after playoff loss spark debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPORTS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">After Sunday&#8217;s heartbreaking loss to the Bills in the playoffs, Lynn Jones-Turpin, with the Jacksonville Free Press, shared a message praising head coach Liam Coen during the post-game news conference. The moment has gone viral, but the response has been mixed between those who celebrate Jones-Turpin&#8217;s words of encouragement and those who say that&#8217;s not the role of a reporter covering the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPORTS After Sunday&#8217;s heartbreaking loss to the Bills in the playoffs, Lynn Jones-Turpin, with the Jacksonville Free Press,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[502,116,58616,118,117,16009,1630,5323,58600,119,110],"class_list":["post-116123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-community","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-free-press","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jags","tag-jaguars","tag-liam-coen","tag-lynn-jones-turpin","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}