One big reason the Jacksonville Jaguars hired Liam Coen as their head coach was that they needed someone to get the most out of Trevor Lawrence. Based on his work with Baker Mayfield in 2024, he seemed like the right guy for the job.
Right off the bat, Coen worked one-on-one with Lawrence to hone his mechanics. Then, the duo focuses on using his eyes and doing a better job of going through his reads. And while No. 16 hasn't hit his stride, he's most definitely taking steps in the right direction.
Throughout the process, Lawrence made a crucial tweak to how he approach football games, and once he gets fully acclimated, he should be able to make a noticeable improvement.
Trevor Lawrence is no longer using a wristband on Game Day
Trevor Lawrence used to wear a wristband with all the calls in past years but is ditching it this season. Heading into the Week 5 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Liam Coen told reporters that the fifth-year quarterback is getting acclimated to the process of having to visualize plays. Here's the skinny.
"We've talked to him about it, we've we've asked him if he was wanting to use it, and he doesn't want to use it right now," Coen told the media when asked if he was a wristband guy (4:53 mark). "He just feels like it's helping him, even though there's been some issues with motion personnel, whatever it is, it's a process, and we have to clean that process up as coaches.
Coen continued, "For sure, the players have an accountability to it, but it's on us as coaches to make sure we're not putting too much on their plate. And he feels like when he hears it, he starts to visualize it better than hearing wristband 15. You have no idea what that play is, and the first time you're starting to visualize it is when you're reading it off the wristband of the players."
"So now you're going, alright. 'Z, to the South, right close. F Shore, 17, tiff in 16 sip, and then you got to go break the huddle and process that, as opposed to hearing it while he's outside the huddle. Now he can start to visualize it. He says it one more time. He's, then again, visualizing what he has to do. That's kind of been the process, and hopefully we can clean a lot of that up, because that has been something we struggled with."
Trevor Lawrence got off to a slow start to the season, completing 55.8 percent of his throws for a combined 671 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions the first three games. However, he played much better against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 4, completing 67.7 percent of his throws for 174 yards with one touchdown and no picks.
The Jaguars should expect Trevor Lawrence to keep getting bettter
Ideally, Trevor Lawrence would be playing a top-10 level right now, but it's easy to forget that he didn't get the best coaching with Urban Meyer or even Doug Pederson, who delegated his development to right-hand man Press Taylor.
Rightly, Lawrence will go through some bumps and bruises throughout the process, but Liam Coen appears to be pleased with him. In the same breath, his pushing his quarterback to get better each day.
So far, the approach is working, and once Trevor Lawrence gets fully comfortable playing without a wristband, the Jaguars should notice an improvement.