{"id":992977,"date":"2026-09-06T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/992977\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:36:33","slug":"afc-notes-liam-coen-anthony-richardson-colts-jaguars-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/992977\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Notes: Liam Coen, Anthony Richardson, Colts, Jaguars, Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite his public trade request, Colts GM Chris Ballard said he wouldn\u2019t be willing to deal QB2 Anthony Richardson<\/a> at this time, with Richardson noting he is happy with his role for the time being.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was honored,\u201d Richardson said, via Pro Football Talk<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m just blessed to continue to find a way to lead, continue to find my way on the roster. I\u2019m just thankful they believe in me enough to promote me to QB2. I\u2019m just ready to work and I\u2019m willing to work with the team and provide my best self for this squad and help us win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liam Coen enters his second season as the Jaguars\u2019 head coach after leading them to the AFC Wild Card Round. Coen said they are trying to mitigate the distractions of EverBank Stadium\u2019s ongoing renovations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to get out ahead of that,\u201d Coen said, via Jeff Howe of The Athletic.<\/a> \u201cI said, \u2018Guys, we\u2019re going to hear this. We\u2019re going to see it. We may feel it. But it ain\u2019t gonna be a f\u2014ing reason. It\u2019s not going to be an excuse. Because at the end of the day, nobody cares in this league. Nobody cares.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Coen said he\u2019s been trying to build a team culture around being ready to play \u201canyone, anytime, anywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to hear that a lot as an excuse, as a reason, as a whatever,\u201d Coen said. \u201cOur whole mindset is, \u2018Anyone, anytime, anywhere.\u2019 Doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s what we\u2019re training every day. That\u2019s the culture piece, trying to show them how we have the mindset and mentality every time we walk into this building, that it doesn\u2019t matter where we are, doesn\u2019t matter what time it is, doesn\u2019t matter who we\u2019re playing, where we\u2019re playing. You\u2019re going to get the best version of me every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jaguars notably lost a home game to face the Texans in London for a critical AFC South clash. Coen said they aren\u2019t fretting about playing \u201cHouston twice away\u201d and understands they can\u2019t have any excuses in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a results-based business, but that\u2019s why we have to lean into our process now more than ever,\u201d Coen said. \u201cThe process drives those results, not living in the result. And when the schedule came out, I heard, \u2018You\u2019re playing Houston in London, so you\u2019re basically playing Houston twice away.\u2019 Nobody cares, though. At the end of the day, when our season is done, nobody is going to have an asterisk there, so we can\u2019t even let our minds go there. That cannot be a reason, an excuse, a single thought. Put us in a helicopter, fly us out into the frigging desert and let\u2019s go play. That\u2019s the mindset we\u2019re training every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Texans were one of the league\u2019s top defenses last year, finishing No. 1 in total defense and near the top in a plethora of other categories. Sights are set even higher in 2026 \u2014 on \u201cperfection,\u201d in fact, in the words of DC Matt Burke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re chasing perfection,\u201d Burke said via ESPN\u2019s DJ Bien-Aime<\/a>. \u201cI know no one gets there, but we\u2019re chasing it. We want to be better than we were last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never want to stay the same. Like if you stay the same, you\u2019re getting worse,\u201d Texans CB Kamari Lassiter<\/a> added. \u201cWhenever you look back at last year, look at the plays that we made, and then you really look at the plays that we didn\u2019t make, it\u2019s like, \u2018How can I make those plays?\u2019 And once you look at it that way, there\u2019s so many ways you can get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his public trade request, Colts GM Chris Ballard said he wouldn\u2019t be willing to deal QB2 Anthony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":992978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1504,5422,7,221,253,2368,463,1642,24780,6,222],"class_list":["post-992977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-anthony-richardson","tag-chris-ballard","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-kamari-lassiter","tag-liam-coen","tag-matt-burke","tag-nfl","tag-texans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117221535479534827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992977","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=992977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}