Liam Coen’s departure from the Bucs to change into the Jaguars’ new head coach has been an enormous matter of dialog within the NFL over the past a number of days.
And as a lot discuss as there’s been concerning the transfer itself, there’s additionally been loads of debate amongst Bucs followers, Jaguars followers and soccer followers typically about the way in which this all went down between Coen, Tampa Bay and Jacksonville.
Bucs GM Jason Licht, HC Todd Bowles and former OC Liam Coen – Photograph by: Cliff Welch/PR
However after Coen turned them down on Wednesday, the Jaguars fired basic supervisor Trent Baalke. That reignited conversations between Jacksonville and Coen, and when Tampa Bay tried to get involved with Coen to have him signal his new contract, it couldn’t attain him.
There was discuss of a private matter, then when Coen lastly did discuss with Bucs head coach Todd Bowles Thursday night, he reportedly briefly talked about re-exploring the Jaguars job. Quickly after, the Bucs obtained phrase that Coen was already in Jacksonville.
Later Thursday night time, Coen would conform to change into the brand new head coach of the Jaguars.
Friday noticed nearly each facet of this case come out with its personal model of the story, which sparked loads of debate. Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer appeared to have one of many clearer explanations on how every part performed out, however as is the case with loads of issues today, individuals who have chosen sides are caught of their model of the way it all went down — and issues have gotten ugly between Buccaneer followers and the Jaguars devoted on social media consequently.
In fact, with that stated, Bucs followers are predictably upset with Liam Coen.
Bucs Followers Aren’t Joyful With How Liam Coen Dealt with The Transfer
Former Bucs OC Liam Coen – Photograph by: Cliff Welch/PR
Bucs followers cherished Liam Coen.
Beloved — previous tense.
There’s been a fast change within the perspective towards the offensive coordinator who helped engineer a top-five offense within the NFL final 12 months, and it appears to have extra to do with how he dealt with this case than the mere incontrovertible fact that he took a head teaching job.
Bear in mind, Bucs followers additionally cherished Dave Canales after his first 12 months because the crew’s offensive coordinator. He then took the Panthers’ head teaching job — which clearly made him an NFC South rival — but there wasn’t the identical stage of vitriol as there now could be with Coen.
Throughout our Pewter Report social media channels on Friday, we ran a ballot for Bucs followers on the Liam Coen saga.
The query: “How do you feel about Liam Coen reversing course and becoming the Jaguars’ head coach?”
The reply choices: Good for him – I get it; OK – he dealt with it poorly; Pissed – dangerous search for him
The outcomes informed a transparent story of how Buccaneer followers really feel about their former offensive coordinator. Let’s break it down:
Over on Twitter/X, there have been 1,747 responses to the ballot. Solely 21.4% stated they had been completely happy for Coen. Someplace within the center, 37.7% of followers appeared OK with the transfer however stated Coen dealt with the scenario poorly. And nearly all of followers – 41% – answered “pissed.”
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Former Bucs OC Liam Coen – Photograph by: Jeffrey Jones/PR
On the Pewter Report Fb web page, 197 responses yielded an identical breakdown. Solely 12% had been completely happy for Coen, 42% had been OK however sad with how he dealt with it and 46% – once more the bulk – answered “pissed off.”
Lastly, on our Pewter Report Instagram, 2,408 responses got here to an identical conclusion. Solely 187 voters (8%) had been completely happy for the Bucs’ former offensive coordinator, whereas 1,100 answered “OK – he handled it poorly.” That labored out to 46% of the vote, whereas 1,121 voters (47%) responded with the “pissed off” possibility.
General, there have been 4,353 votes and it led to this breakdown throughout all channels:
Good for him – I get it: 584 votes (13.4%)OK – however he dealt with it poorly: 1,843 votes (42.3%)Pissed off – it was a nasty search for him: 1,926 votes (44.2%)
Greater than something, these ballot outcomes appear to point that Bucs followers are sad with Coen extra resulting from how he went concerning the scenario than the truth that he left. Nevertheless it’s protected to say that there are a lot fewer Liam Coen followers in Tampa Bay now than there have been right now final week. In any case, 3,769 of 4,353 voters – 86.6% – aligned with the concept the way in which every part unfolded was poorly dealt with by Coen and/or it was a nasty look from him.
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