The coach’s job season often brings one or two surprises. Usually, the surprise comes from the dismissal of a coach. This year, the surprise comes from the clumsy release of Liam Coen from Tampa.
If, as it seems, Coen will soon be appointed head coach of the Jaguars, his departure has stranger twists and turns than a film of the Coen brothers.
In general, coaches have the right to leave a team as an assistant and to join a new team as a chief coach. No contract can prevent this.
In terms of coaching, the teams do what is good for them. And the Buccaneers have a history of decisions that make you wally in “the best interest of the team”, from the abrupt dismissal of Jon Gruden to the rapid promotion of the defensive coach Raheem Morris in 2009, passing by the fact of Get out of the beaten track for the Rutgers coach Greg Schiano in 2012. Lovie Smith in 2016 Lovie Smith and promoting the attacking coordinator Dirk Koetter at a time when other teams were interested in Koetter hiring in anticipation of “retirement” At the end of March by Bruce Arians in 2022 after Tom Brady’s retirement. The coaches, in turn, can also do what is good for them.
There is still a good way to manage this.
Based on several reports and elements that we have gathered separately, the Coen saga took place.
Coen had a first interview with the Jaguars under the express encouragement of the Buccaneers. Then, while he was about to come back for a second interview, he accepted a new contract which would have made him the best paid offensive coordinator in the NFL. Although he may not be enforceable, the new agreement was based on the agreement that he would not go to Jacksonville for a second interview in person.
When the Jaguars dismissed the director general Trent Baalke, everything changed. Instead of signing the new contract, Coen “secretlyI returned to Jacksonville without talking to the Buccaneers, and the people of the Bucs suddenly could not find him.
And then there is this, from Rick Stroud of Tampa Bay schedules: “To be clear. . . Liam Coen contacted head coach Todd Bowles around 5 p.m. Thursday. He said He was with one of his childrenWho had fallen ill in a medical office. He only mentioned the situation of the Jaguars briefly, saying that he wanted to come back to it.
Coen, according to all appearances, was actually back in Jacksonville, working on an agreement to become a head coach of the Jaguars.
Coen’s actions most likely arise from the idea that he obtained the new contract by agreeing not to take a second interview with the Jaguars. Perhaps he thought that if he did, the agreement would be abandoned. If he had not obtained the position in Jacksonville, the new agreement could have been canceled.
He could still sign him and then re -engage with the Jaguars. Again, the Buccaneers could not have prevented him from leaving. But that would have been contrary to the handshake agreement which had earned him the new contract – even if the handshake chords are not worth the paper on which they are not printed.
Although this result would have shaken the feathers to Tampa, his decision to ghost the ghosts, then to propose an apparently fragile excuse to make it, becomes a harder look.
In the end, he will be released with a contract that will bring him around $ 12 million a year. But the NFL is a small store, with only 32 separate branches. During a career, most coaches spend a team team over time. Unless Coen becomes the long -term response with a team that changes coach more often than cars need new tires, the way he leaves Tampa could become a complication at a given time.
