Press Pass | Liam Coen on Moving Forward to Week 3, Confidence in Ability to Respond

Jamal (0:00)

Hey, coach, how important is it to kind of be able to move forward from this one? First loss of the season, tough matchup with the Broncos. How important is it to kind of put that behind you and start thinking about what's next?

Liam Coen (0:10)

That was the message right after the game in the locker room, and then obviously this afternoon now, in the team meeting was, hey guys, we've got to be extremely accountable to each other, to the things that obviously we could improve on or where we fell short.

Coaches, players, everybody involved in that, we got to be accountable. We got to connect, reconnect, and we've got to move on and respond. I mean, that's what it really comes down to. I'm excited to see us respond. I'm excited to get back on the grass on Wednesday with this group and get back to work. But you're right, it is the message to the, especially some of the younger players, rookies. It's like, hey, guys, this isn't the college football playoff where you lose a game in week two and you might not make it. So we've got a lot of games ahead of us, and we have a really big opponent, quality opponent coming into Jacksonville this weekend.

SPEAKER_3 (1:15)

Jamal, did you have another one or you're good? Okay, we can then move to D-Rock and then to Justin.

SPEAKER_4 (1:27)

Hey, Liam, after you went back, watched tape from last night or yesterday's game, can you reevaluate the offensive line and the job you think they did? Did it look worse or better than maybe you thought?

Liam Coen (1:40)

Yeah, I thought in the run game, it was a little bit better than it maybe felt at times. I think we had some decent movement. I thought we handled some movement well and some pressures decent.

In the pass pro, I think we got edged a little bit. I think Zach Allen really disrupted things inside. It was, we all kind of took our turns a little bit up front. I think it wasn't necessarily one guy for the majority of the game. I think we all kind of took our turns. We've got to do a better job of moving the launch by doing some things to be able to help those guys. So they're not just getting teed off on, and some of the longer downing distances, getting the ball out a little bit more, some longer developing routes that the ball is getting held on to a little bit. I don't think we helped them with some of that.

So it definitely wasn't necessarily one guy that just kind of, you know, hurt us. Everybody kind of took a turn, very similar to our game and our team as a whole. We all kind of took turns, and I'm confident in that group and their ability to respond.

SPEAKER_4 (3:00)

Can you elaborate a little bit too on the cornerback rotation that you guys are using, you know, those outside corners? Is it like pre-planned which drives? Is it more by feel? Is it a little bit more?

Liam Coen (3:13)

It's just it's by drive with those guys rotating in, you know, with Buster, Travis, Jarrion, and then obviously J.Liu specifically, and some of the nickel, you know, nickel stuff. So, you know, we did it for the most part of the last season as well before Travis got heard, and it's something that we got to continue to do. I mean, we have we have corners that we have confidence in. Those guys can all make plays for us. They can all communicate for us. They've been in the system now. We got to play it better, for sure. But we also got to get to the quarterback to help those guys out as well in the back end. So definitely some communication, and we're a little bit softer than I would have liked us to be, especially in some situations.

But yeah, it's a rotation based on pregame. We have it all laid out. The players know it. They all know the rotation. It's been clearly laid out to them what the expectations and standards are.

SPEAKER_4 (4:11)

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_3 (4:13)

We'll go to Justin and to Shipley. Justin, I don't think we can hear you.

Justin (4:28)

Can you guys hear me now?

SPEAKER_3 (4:29)

Yeah. Yeah.

Justin (4:31)

Yeah. Sorry about that.

I think on Wednesday, Mark was mentioning how many road games are in the next few years for you guys. Is there anything that you can do to improve that communication on the road? I know a few times it looked like Trevor was trying to get guys lined up correctly because they probably couldn't hear. Is there anything that you guys can do to kind of improve that?