JACKSONVILLE – Liam Coen made one thing clear Monday.
“This isn’t a four-win team,” the Jaguars’ new head coach said, adding that the biggest element needed to improve on a 4-13 record this past season – and to build a foundation for the future – is an improved culture.
“That’s first and foremost,” he said.
Coen, who became the Jaguars’ eighth head coach last Friday, spoke to the media and fans for the first time Monday at his introductory press conference. He discussed multiple Jaguars-related topics, with instilling a winning atmosphere and structure chief among them.
“That is the record, but this is not a four-win team,” he said. “How do we go from winning games to not losing them? I think that’s something we’ve got to address. That has got to be in our veins, in our DNA: the culture of winning. I’ve learned it from the Los Angeles Rams and from a ton of other great organizations on how to go win football games.
“I think that’s something that we have to start as a team, as a group and show how we’re going to go do it.”
Coen on multiple occasions Monday focused on improving tone and culture with an aligned football organization, which will be paramount as Coen builds his staff in the coming weeks – and as the team seeks to fill its vacant general-manager position.
“It starts with communication,” Coen said, and pointing to a group of players attending the press conference at the Miller Electric Center added: “It’s about these guys.”
“How do we put the best coaches in place to help these players reach their full abilities?” Coen said. “With the front office, how do we continue to build there and get this thing fully in alignment so that then when we go into the offseason program, we’re all on the same page, we all understand the vision and the goal?”
Coen in that vein spoke of joining the Los Angeles Rams’ coaching staff in 2018, a season after Sean McVay took…
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