The Jaguars finished their regular season with a 13-4 record and the AFC South title.\u00a0Jacksonville\u2019s chief football strategy officer,\u00a0Tony Khan,\u00a0feels they have the\u00a0\u201cbest outlook for the future\u201d in his\u00a015 years running the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really happy for the Jaguars fans. This was my 14th season working here. It\u2019ll be my 15th season now, and I thought it was the best outlook for the future going into the next season we\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Khan said, via John Shipley of SI.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Khan credited HC Liam Coen, GM James Gladstone, and executive Tony Boselli<\/a> for their turnaround in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never felt better going into an offseason about the future of the organization than I do right now in 15 years. And so much of the credit for that goes to Liam Coen. So I think we have a great group of people, James Gladstone and Tony Boselli<\/a>, working with Liam and the great people here. It\u2019s been such a great year for the Jacksonville fans and everyone who works here.\u201d<\/p>\n Khan called Coen a \u201cbreath of fresh air\u201d for their organization, and making the playoffs with the AFC South title was a \u201cmassive improvement\u201d under him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLiam Coen leading this organization has been a breath of fresh air. And I thought my dad made a great move, hiring Liam, and I think that\u2019s been reflected in the tremendous results and the huge improvement winning the AFC South, and I think we\u2019re all really excited for the future here with the Jaguars,\u201d Khan said. \u201cAbsolutely, you\u2019re right. We wanted to go even further and take it further, but getting into the playoffs and winning the AFC South were big goals for the team this year, and that\u2019s massive improvement year over year. And I think that\u2019s why Liam Coen is a very deserving candidate for Coach of the Year, and we are also very proud and excited to see our quarterback, Trevor Lawrence<\/a> nominated for comeback Player of the Year and nominated for MVP.\u201d<\/p>\n Jaguars WR\/CB Travis Hunter<\/a> had his rookie year cut short and missed the final seven games after suffering a knee injury. Jacksonville HC Liam Coen believes the time off has helped them re-evaluate their plan for him and establish firmer steps for how they will handle him in the future. He was adamant about his faith in Hunter to play on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think the best thing that could have happened was like, all right, not that he got hurt, but we got hurt and we still, we were able to have success right? So now we get the privilege of going throughout this. He\u2019s still rehabbing, going through a whole process of rehab, getting back, but now we can go say, Okay, where is this going to truly help us go take the next step? Like, what\u2019s going to actually help us get over the hump, from time allotment for him, practice schedule, playing on Sundays?\u201d Coen said, via SI.com\u2019s John Shipley<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Travis Hunter<\/a> can absolutely handle playing on both sides of the ball..\u201d<\/p>\n Coen also talked about how they will weigh his playing time in the games where he starts to get in a rhythm on offense. He admitted they are still working through exactly what the result will look like, but they know he\u2019s more than capable on both sides.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we were getting there. I think we were getting there. And then he gets, you know, he has 100 yards against the Rams, gets hurt, forced us to go, kind of make some other decisions. And it was a blessing at the end of the day for the way it played out in some ways, but look, we\u2019ll look through that,\u201d Coen said.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think that if you just said, alright man, go play football without much coaching. I mean, corner, he just looks \u2014 he just looks the part, exactly what he is. And then, but also when you get the ball in his hands, I mean, he can make people miss, which I can\u2019t coach, you know. So it\u2019s still a fine line. It\u2019s still something we\u2019re working through.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Cowboys HC and current NBC analyst Jason Garrett<\/a> interviewed for the Titans\u2019 head coaching job last month. Garrett reflected on his meeting with the team, saying he spent 6-7 hours with GM Mike Borgonzi and assistant GM Dave Ziegler.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI had an absolutely great experience,\u201d Garrett said, via Jim Wyatt of the team\u2019s site<\/a>. \u201cI visited with (GM) Mike Borgonzi and (assistant GM) Dave Ziegler and the whole staff there. It probably went for six or seven hours, and we just talked football, visions for the team. There\u2019s a lot of good things going on down there in Tennessee. I know they didn\u2019t have a very good record last year, and they\u2019ve been struggling the past few years. But they have a good young quarterback, Jeffery Simmons<\/a> is as good a defensive player as there is in the NFL, there\u2019s lot of cap space, and I think they have the right people in charge. So, it was a fun opportunity for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Garrett is confident that Tennessee has assembled a strong coaching staff with new HC Robert Saleh, OC Brian Daboll, and DC Gus Bradley.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think they\u2019ll do a great job down there,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cI like Mike Borgonzi and what he brings in terms of leadership to the program, and Robert has done an excellent job as a coordinator in the NFL and is deserving of another opportunity. I think he\u2019ll put a good group together there. Brian Daboll, Gus Bradley \u2013 they are all established coaches in the NFL. It\u2019s a good young team. I think they\u2019ll make good personnel decisions, and there\u2019s a lot to be excited about down there.\u201d<\/p>\n Garrett highly praised QB Cam Ward<\/a> and feels the Titans are building a solid group around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI like (Cam) a lot,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cA very talented guy, and as we all know the first player taken in the draft. Excellent athleticism, arm talent, all of that. To a man, everybody I\u2019ve talked to that\u2019s known him since high school, they love who he is as a person and what he is all about. He loves football, his work ethic, and everything that goes with it. I think they have the right guy there, they just have to surround him with a good group of people and I think they\u2019re in the process of doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking for the latest NFL Insider News & Rumors?<\/p>\n Be sure to follow NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on X.com<\/a>\u00a0and FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars finished their regular season with a 13-4 record and the AFC South title.\u00a0Jacksonville\u2019s chief football strategy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64481,7121,71971,71972,116,118,117,59900,71973,57756,5323,71974,57544,57547,71686,5016],"class_list":["post-148771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-brian-daboll","tag-cam-ward","tag-dave-ziegler","tag-gus-bradley","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-gladstone","tag-jason-garrett","tag-jeffery-simmons","tag-liam-coen","tag-mike-borgonzi","tag-robert-saleh","tag-tony-boselli","tag-tony-khan","tag-travis-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148771","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=148771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}