{"id":432042,"date":"2026-10-19T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432042\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:18:12","slug":"liam-coen-on-brian-thomas-not-playing-in-second-half-guys-have-to-make-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432042\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Coen on Brian Thomas not playing in second half: Guys have to make plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Hunter had his <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/travis-hunter-is-having-his-best-offensive-game-and-worst-defensive-game-of-the-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">most productive offensive day<\/a> of the season in London on Sunday and his expanded role at wide receiver came at the expense of Brian Thomas. <\/p>\n<p>Jaguars head coach Liam Coen left Thomas on the bench for the entire second half of their 34-31 loss to the Texans. Thomas was targeted three times in the first half, but had a drop and no catches before spending the rest of the day on the sideline. Thomas also went without a catch in Week 5, which led to a question for Coen about his confidence in the 2024 first-round pick. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust week to week. Week to week. Guys have to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/columns\/ryan-o-halloran\/2026\/10\/18\/why-the-jaguars-must-trade-or-deactivate-wr-brian-thomas-jr\/92233005007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z115701p001050c001050e003610v115701d--57--b--57--&amp;gca-ft=159&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">step up and make plays<\/a>,\u201d Coen said, via Ryan O\u2019Halloran of the Florida Times-Union.<\/p>\n<p>Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone called trade chatter concerning Thomas \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/james-gladstone-dismisses-brian-thomas-jr-trade-rumors-as-fraudulent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fraudulent<\/a>\u201d in March, but the last couple of weeks give some reason to think that conversations could be had about what whether the wideout\u2019s future is in Jacksonville. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Hunter had his most productive offensive day of the season in London on Sunday and his expanded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-432042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432042","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=432042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}