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Whispers emerged<\/span><\/a> \u00a0shortly after the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>parted ways<\/span><\/a> \u00a0with general manager Trent Baalke<\/a> this week that Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> offensive coordinator Liam Coen could reconsider becoming Jacksonville’s next head coach. This was despite Coen\u00a0 <\/span>having agreed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to a new contract with the Buccaneers that, per\u00a0<\/span>Albert Breer<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Sports Illustrated, would’ve made Coen “the highest-paid coordinator in NFL history, and by a healthy margin.”<\/span><\/p>\n Later\u00a0<\/a>Thursday night, it was learned that Coen would take the Jacksonville job. The Buccaneers seem to have strongly reacted to this defection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n “Liam Coen has his thoughts and the Buccaneers have their thoughts,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter said on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Friday, as shared by the JoeBucsFan website.<\/span><\/a> “And you can believe whatever you want. I can tell you there\u2019s<\/span> two different schools of thought. I would just say this: In 20 years, this century, since the turn of the century \u2014 I don\u2019t remember the last time I\u2019ve heard one team this hot and bothered by a coach taking another deal.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Breer detailed how Coen avoided signing his new Buccaneers contract from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning before “Coen\u2019s agent got back to the Bucs and informed them that his client was tending to a personal matter.” Specifically, Rick Stroud<\/span><\/a> of the Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday evening that “Coen contacted head coach Todd Bowles around 5 p.m. Thursday” and “said he had been with one of his kids, who had taken ill, at a doctor’s office.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Breer added that Coen also told Bowles “that things had materially changed in Jacksonville and that he was going to travel there to explore the opening.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Breer continued: “Within an hour of that phone call, a Bucs staffer got tipped off by someone in the Jaguars’ facility that Coen was already in the building.”<\/span><\/p>\n The rest, as the saying goes, is history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Understandably,<\/span>\u00a0Bowles and Co. could feel betrayed, but former NFL player and current analyst Ross Tucker is among those who have defended Coen:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n “There are a lot of different versions of what is going down,” Schefter added about the Coen situation. “I can just tell you that, I don\u2019t remember when was the last time I heard a team that irate over a coaching decision.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Buccaneers and Jaguars are\u00a0<\/span>not set<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to play each other next season. Perhaps the NFL could change that before the 2025 schedule is released this spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n