“I think we’ve done a nice job with being able to get to those players that’ll help settle things in and be able to create that kind of balanced football flow that we’re looking for,” Coen said.
Coen, hired in January after spending last season as the Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator, spent several weeks assembling a coaching staff. The Jaguars also since last season have hired James Gladstone as general manager and Tony Boselli as executive vice president of football operations.
“We’ve spent almost every waking minute together throughout the last few weeks, honestly,” Coen said of Gladstone. “It’s so easy to talk to him. He breaks things down to such an elite level of simplicity for me because he’s a lot smarter than I am.”
Because Coen is in his first season as head coach, the Jaguars can begin their offseason program April 7 – and Coen said players can expect “energy” when they report.
“That’s the first thing we’re really trying to place,” Coen said. “It’s just feel: ‘Guys, this is good stuff. It’s great to be back. We’re doing football, guys. How many of us get to do this? We get an opportunity to do this every single day. There are so many that don’t, so how are we going to approach this thing?’ I think they’ll walk into that kind of feeling.
“We’ll just do meetings obviously throughout Phase I [of the offseason program], introducing our systems while we at the same time start to introduce our culture. The way that we’re going to be, the way we’re going to talk to each other, the way they’re going to communicate with each other, how we’re going to treat one another – that’ll go hand in hand with the systems.
“It’s just incrementally inputting the culture. It’s not just culture overload on Day One when you’re like – as a player, coach and staff – ‘Man, that was way too much, this is a lot.’ Culture is how we truly just are. How we talk to each other, how we hang out with each…
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