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Has Chucky Been Indirectly Coaching Up Baker Mayfield?

May 11th, 2025

“You GD right I was talking with Liam Coen last year about Baker Mayfield. LOVE that guy, Baker, Jiminy Christmas!”

This got Joe to thinking.

Now Joe has zero idea or clue if the following actually happened or if it is true. But dang, Joe’s smell for a story is going off like someone transported Joe’s to Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart, Tex. (Not to be confused with Terry Black’s, which is also good.)

So yesterday after Jags rookie minicamp practice in Jacksonville, 1010XL radio reporter Mia O’Brien noted that new Jags coach Liam Coen was raving about Jags UDFA quarterback Seth Henigan.

Why go crazy about some schlep quarterback when Coen has Trevor Lawrence? Well, Coen said he got tipped off about Henigan, from Memphis, based on texts from Chucky.

Seems Henigan came to Tampa to tape one of Chucky’s quarterback camp episodes. Chucky liked Henigan so much he texted Coen telling him he ought to sign Henigan.

So let Joe get this straight: Coen has developed such a close tie to Chucky in the four months since he became the Jags coach that Chucky is tipping him off about quarterbacks? That seems to be an awfully tight bond in such a short amount of time.

And given Coen was the Bucs’ offensive coordinator last year, Joe finds it a bit difficult to believe that when so many coaches stop in to Chucky’s lair when traveling to or through Tampa to pay homage to the Bucs’ Super Bowl-winning coach and to talk shop that Coen never had a sitdown with Chucky when both lived in the same city.

So that brings Joe to the next logical step: Was Chucky, even in some small way, indirectly coaching up Baker Mayfield through Coen?

Joe doesn’t think that’s much of a stretch given that Chucky thinks so much of Coen he’s become a bird dog scout for the Jags coach and that Coen trusts Chucky’s evals of quarterbacks enough to sign one.

Intrigue!