{"id":698146,"date":"2026-01-23T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/698146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:25:21","slug":"how-it-all-changed-for-the-jacksonville-jaguars-in-january-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/698146\/","title":{"rendered":"How it all changed for the Jacksonville Jaguars In January of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 22, 2026, 12:08 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Everything changed for the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> this time a year ago.<\/p>\n

After moving on from head coach Doug Pederson shortly after the 2024 season ended, the Jaguars<\/a> and then-GM Trent Baalke began their search for the next head coach.<\/p>\n

After going through a number of interviews, the Jaguars zeroed in on Liam Coen, who was the Tampa Bay offensive coordinator at that time.<\/p>\n

However, on the morning of Jan. 22nd, 2024, it was reported that Coen was withdrawing<\/a> from the Jaguars’ head coaching job. The Buccaneers reportedly<\/a> were going to make Coen the highest-paid coordinator in football.<\/p>\n

A few hours later, owner Shad Khan and the Jaguars would move on from Baalke. Khan then reached back out to Coen.<\/p>\n

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Not long after, Coen was named the head coach of the Jaguars. A few weeks later, James Gladstone was named the team’s next general manager.<\/p>\n

In the year that followed, Gladstone would reshape the Jaguars’ roster. Coen guided Jacksonville to a 13-win season, an AFC South title, and a home playoff game.<\/p>\n

Quarterback Trevor Lawrence also had a resurgent season under Coen and is now a finalist for the league MVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coen is also a finalist<\/a> for the NFL’s Coach of the Year award.<\/p>\n

Had Khan not been willing to pivot quickly a year ago, who knows how the 2025 season would have unfolded for the Jaguars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 22, 2026, 12:08 p.m. ET Everything changed for the Jacksonville Jaguars this time a year ago. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95936,95935,95896,95888,95895,95899,95884,95883,95934,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-698146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-tagliam-coen","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115942753850515003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}