HEAD COACH LIAM COEN
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JUNE 15, 2026
(On Wide Receivers Coach Edgar Bennett) “Oh man. Edgar has a way about him as a
person and as a coach, that is extremely comforting in a way. He is very much calm, cool,
collected. He’s the same person every day. He’s extremely consistent in his approach and
he has extremely high standards for your preparation. You should see his meetings, the film
that he makes these guys every day for their meetings, specifically in season when we’re
getting ready for game prep, is as thorough and detailed as I’ve ever seen to explain to his
players the defensive structure in which they’re playing against, the person that they’re
going up against in a lot of ways. He makes tapes every week of the DBs and routes against
the DBs, maybe not even targeted routes, showing the guys, man, this is how we can attack
these players. These are the routes and stems that really work. And he is great for me
personally, being a little bit of a high-low guy at times to have somebody at the position that
is consistent and he truly cares about this place, about this city. He wants to do his best to
be here for a long time.”
(On having NFL legends at practice) “It’s great to get Mojo [Maurice Jones-Drew] out here
and we’ll have a few more over the next few days. Fred Taylor will come in, Marcedes Lewis.
We had the McCourty twins [Devin and Jason McCourty] out here today, A.J. Green out here
today, coach Mike Waufle, defensive line specialist, and really to get our guys around
players that did it at a high level whether it was here or elsewhere, man, if they can take any
nugget from them over the next three days, we got better. And to get, especially the
McCourty twins, right, being in New England for those years, the level of consistency, their
approach and me picking their brains of what that was like. That’s something that’s really
important to me. We show our players a lot of examples throughout the offseason program
and in season of the best of the best, right? Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, but
then those teams that were great and going into some of those details of what it takes to be
great, what it takes to sustain success over the course of years. And that’s why I think it was
really important to get these guys out here. We did mandatory last week, we brought them
back for these days and wanted to kind of make it worth their time, make it something that,
man, they don’t feel like it’s a grind, but we’re getting good quality work in, and they can
hopefully take something from these guys at some point here.”
(On how long he thought about bringing NFL legends to practice) “I hadn’t really, it was
something that kind of came up organically over the winter time, I believe. Just when we
made the decision to swap mini-camp dates that was kind of when the wheels started
churning as to what can we do creatively for the last few days of offseason program to
where maybe these guys are going to get somebody else’s voice listening to and just being
around other guys? DeMarcus Ware will be here later, Hall of Fame pass rusher, we’re trying
to improve in areas in which hopefully that can help provide some of that. I really
appreciate Tony [Executive Vice President of Football Operations Tony Boselli], [Assistant to
the Head Coach] Jay Kaiser, ElizaBeth [Executive Assistant to the EVP of Football
Operations ElizaBeth Harrison], they’ve done such a great job of helping organize this and
get these guys here. I think it makes it a little bit different, I guess.”
(On players getting work in after practice) “This team understands that there was meat left
on the bone, I think. And the way they’ve attacked this offseason, I think is representative of
that hunger and wanting to try to put ourselves in the best position to go earn those ops
next year. I think [Defensive Passing Game Coordinator] Mat Araujo with the DBs, it’s
become a standard, it’s become something that we don’t have to ask them to do anymore.
We don’t have to necessarily encourage it. They’re doing it and they’re taking the time out of
their rest and recovery to go get some extra reps and that’s important. Like, it was cool
being away this weekend with some of our players at Hainsey’s [OL Robert Hainsey]
wedding at Notre Dame and seeing our guys interact and be together. There’s no question
that we have a close group.”
(On what his father means to him) “That’s the whole reason why I got into this was because
I was fortunate enough to grow up with your hero being your father and being in the same
house and the life lessons, the football lessons that so often connect. Life and football.
And we’re going away on Friday where I’m taking him overseas to go golf and we’re going to
do our golf trip so, we’ll be together for Father’s Day. Having him around here every day, he’s
got a locker in the coach’s locker room and it’s great having him here. It’s good for me, but
it’s also cool for our staff, our players, they all kind of connect with them in their own way.
He just has a way about him that I’ve always really respected the way he’s coached people,
very demanding, but not demeaning. When you play for your dad, there’s hurdles that come
along with it. We never really faced some of the ‘Man, I don’t want to do this anymore, get
me away from this guy.’ Like, we would come home from practice and dive into it again and I
wanted to, I loved it. Was very fortunate to be able to spend that time with him.”
(On where he and his father are golfing) “We’re going to London, actually. We’ve got a crew
of about five or six courses outside of London. We did Scotland last summer. We’re doing
London this summer, and then I think Ireland next summer. So, we’ll play about five or six
courses and then I’m meeting Ashley [Coen] over there for Wimbledon. We’re going to go
watch Wimbledon for about a day and a half or so, so it’ll be good. He has been playing golf
three days a week or so here, and it’ll be cool to get out there.”
(On how much calmer QB Trevor Lawrence’s mind is this offseason having the offense
down) “Very much so. I think that’s a great point is that he can kind of just go play, right?
Obviously, when we get into game planning, there’s always going to be little tweaks and
things that come up, but the meat and potatoes of the system, what we’re hunting up, what
we’re looking for out of each play, he’s got a very calm mind, I agree with that. He’s able to
just call a play, see it, visualize it, and then go and just play. Just go play. You’re not thinking
about your footwork. You’re not thinking about what is my footwork on this drop or on this
concept? What is the difference in some of those drops? Look, we’re still coaching it,
absolutely, but he’s got such a grasp for it that you’re hopeful that it allows the him to just
go be him and go be the best version of himself as we saw so much towards the back half
of the last year and taking growth from that. We should only be taking a lot of growth from
that time.”
(On the 2022 Rams offensive line and how that influenced his team-building style) “Yeah,
Andrew Whitworth retired after winning the Super Bowl that year, and he was such a
presence in that locker room, specifically with that offensive line. Then you have multiple
different guys playing center specifically that really had some communication things that
come up when you don’t play a lot of snaps, right? And we were pulling multiple players off
the streets. Ty Nsekhe, I remember, hadn’t been playing at all, came out and had to start
games for us. We had multiple players just literally come off the couch and come play. And
so look, there’s only so much you can coach when you don’t have continuity, chemistry or a
plethora of options to play up front. It really screws a lot of things up. The run, the pass, the
protection systems, it’s so much built and that’s why we’re not going to go dry there. I feel
like right now, we have at least nine guys that I feel comfortable saying, man, we’re going to
go play with them on Sundays and we’ll have a chance to win. The more we can add to that,
the better. Why we’re going to continue to invest in the draft and in free agency up front is
because man, if we don’t have our quarterback playing, it’s going to be a hard, tough movie
to watch.”
(On how TE Nate Boerkircher can change the offense) “I think it just allows some of our—
similar to what Jakobi [WR Jakobi Meyers] did in ways, allowing not just himself to come get
integrated and do what he does well, but also what it allows for the other guys to do. And so
as much as man, we love [TE] Brenton Strange blocking and he’s so tough, he wants to do
it, he’s physical, he’ll bite you. He also missed some time last year in which our record, and
when you look at when he has production what our record looks like, it’s kind of interesting
to see. And so, allowing Brenton to continue to do what he does well, but also to maybe
take some of that wear and tear, some of the pounding that it takes when you’re blocking
the [DE] Travon Walkers of the world and [DE] Josh Hines-Allens of the world, getting him
matched up more on those linebackers and safeties and now he’s an advantage for us.
Now we have an edge. So, we always feel good about Strange blocking at the point of
attack, but we needed some help there. Being able to provide Strange an option to go
maybe split out or go block other people that maybe keep him out of some of those one-
on-one big situations, I think that’s going to help us tremendously.”
(On if it’s easier to establish or maintain culture) “That’s a good one. I think establishing is
definitely a little easier, because look, they’re very ready to hear something different. When
you’ve lost or are coming off a tough year, they’re eager, their eyes are bright, they want to
hear what you’ve got to say because like, ‘Hey man, this is, this is what we got, this is where
we have to go.’ And I think that was probably a little easier than sustaining it. Especially
once we get to a point where maybe in a few years other guys are moving on that have been
in the locker room, that know the culture and have the standards. We were very fortunate to
be able to bring back a lot of those guys this year. And so, [LS] Ross Matiscik was telling me
out there on the grass that he’s like, ‘Man, I told my wife this weekend that this is the closest
team I’ve been around in my life.’ So, it’s pretty cool to hear that and to see it come to life
but I think sustaining it is the challenge. Sustaining your culture because now, alright, what
happens if we lose some games and now you start looking at, well man, maybe that wasn’t
right, maybe we aren’t doing the right things, but no, we are, you just stay the course,
process drives the results, but man, we can get caught up in those results pretty quickly
and I think that’s when it goes downhill.”
(On the next trend for NFL defenses) “I think multiplicity and diversity within jobs and
responsibilities on the defensive side. I think you look at, man, there’s linebackers that are
dropping out deeper in coverage than ever before. Or you’re in some of those dime
packages with multiple different DBs on the grass and they’re spinning all over the place.
You look at Minnesota, I know they train their players almost just as Xs. They all have to be
able to do multiple different jobs as opposed to just the D-line rushes and plays the run,
the linebackers run sideline-to-sideline and drop a little in coverage and blitz. It’s like, how
can we continue [S] Antonio Johnson-esque. Different jobs, roles, responsibilities, because
now it allows you to have different packages, develop players because you’re getting them
on the grass a little bit earlier. I think that that’s something that we’re seeing and we’re
seeing a lot more, what we say is non-known rushers dropping in coverage. Guys that you’re
expecting typically to rush, they’re putting the protections in tough situations because
they’re lining them up overloading in a lot of ways and they can either rush or drop, so I
think defenses are challenging our protection systems a lot more than maybe over the last
few years and you see so much diversity and multiplicity throughout the personnel on
defense to be able to do a lot of different things. And that was kind of part of what we did
today. We had all of our DBs today do blitz work. They’re typically in individual or in circuits
doing ball disruption, trying to catch the ball or doing DB-specific drills. Today and this
week is all trying to get guys to do different roles and responsibilities at a high level.”
(On LB Foyesade Oluokun’s skills in coverage) “Yeah, I think it showed up actually last week
as well. We were actually in a two-minute situation, and he gloved one of the running backs
on an option route. And I think Foye, obviously, his brain works very at a high level, and he
can understand release patterns of whether it’s a tight end or the running back. He
understands the release and maybe what that route could look like. I also think vision zone
coverage helped him. Not being maybe in man match all the time and having your eyes on
the receiver, having your eyes on the quarterback and being able to kind of read his eyes,
see the route, start to distribute and then his studying and training and habits can just go
allow him to play fast having vision on the quarterback. I thought he was a very underrated
pass defender last year and I think he’s getting better and better.”
QUARTERBACK TREVOR LAWRENCE
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JUNE 15, 2026
(On being more comfortable in year two in the offense) “Yeah, it’s just a lot calmer, a lot
more confident in my progressions and what I know about the system and stepping out so
when I get on the grass it’s a lot less thinking. I think that’s the biggest thing is I can react,
play faster, can work on some different things of my game because the focus isn’t as much
on what to do and what’s the play call and what are all the adjustments, I know all that stuff
and still study that and work on it because it’s easy to forget little details. But as far as being
able to work on more detailed things with the receivers and the communication with those
guys as opposed to just lining up and running the play, we’re a lot further ahead this year so
it’s a good feeling to be able to work on more stuff. Our installs have been a lot more in
depth as well because the guys have come ready to go and they know the system.”
(On throwing ‘dagger routes’) “I think the timing is something that I feel really comfortable
with all of our guys. We got a lot of guys that can rip in the middle of the field, trust them to
come flat and show up on time and I think that’s probably the biggest thing is trusting guys
to get in that zone. I feel like obviously there’s certain coverages where they take it away, but
in my opinion, there’s not many. I feel like if we’re on time, I throw it early I know where the
window is, I know guys are going to get there. I think I can cut it loose in almost every look,
so we have a lot of confidence throwing that. Guys running it, guys like running that and
know I’m going to put it there on time, so I think that’s something we continue to develop
and build it off of. Obviously, you got to have compliments because I think teams know that
it’s something that we do well, but going to continue to build on that and that’s of course
going to be a big part of our offense.”
(On the tight ends room) “Yeah, I think having a well-rounded tight end room is super
important just because you talk about all the different personnel groupings and when
you’re trying to get a certain defensive personnel on the field and you have the ability to still
throw the ball, whether it’s 12 or 13, you still have a real threat in the pass game. That’s
important just because then you can dictate what happens with the defense a little bit
more and when you don’t, it’s a little bit harder. You get a little bit more, I guess a little bit
easier to track what you’re doing as far as running the ball tendencies, all that. So, I think
that’s going to help us with our tendencies, going to be able to do a lot of different things,
run game and pass game with the versatile tight ends we have.”
(On where the team is now compared to this time a year ago) “Yeah, we talked a little bit
about last year and I think there was so much new, a lot of change. It’s a new staff, a bunch
of new players, everyone’s trying to get on the same page, build the chemistry within our
team, but also just learn the systems on both sides of the ball. So, I think you see the
comfort, the confidence of guys running around knowing what to do. Obviously, there’s still
mistakes that we’re going to learn from and build off of, but as far as guys just knowing what
to do and being able to take that next step on it’s not just about, well, you know what route
we’re running or the progression. It’s now how do we get to different checks? How do we
read this against this coverage and you’re just building more and more knowledge of the
system and how to operate faster and I think it’s just going to make us better and better and
we really attacked the offseason. We got two more days left to do so, but it’s been great so
far.”
(On his focus for the next month) “Really just continue to build off of what we started here. I
know we’re going to be separated and guys are going to be all over the place and I think it’s
an important time. Obviously, it’s such a short break, break, you can’t really take time off in
my opinion. Might take a little bit of time off throwing just to kind of reset a little bit, but
you’re going to be back to work pretty much right away, but it’s separate. So, I think we have
more time to work on individual things that we need to work on. For me, footwork, strength,
getting in shape, all those things, staying in shape and coming back ready to go in training
camp so we can pick back up right where we left off. I think that’s the biggest thing is not
having to feel like you take a little bit of a step back from OTAs to training camp, you want to
hit the ground running and I’m confident we have a really mature team and guys are going
to be ready.”
(On expecting a second child) “Yeah, super excited. I’m going to have another one running
around later this year, so I’m really excited. That’s all I can say. Having a boy obviously is
going to be a little bit different. Everyone says girls are a lot calmer, but my daughter is
pretty crazy, so I’m interested to see how crazy the boy’s going to be, but we’re super
blessed, super grateful. Having our first, she’s incredible and just very grateful that our
family’s growing and just super thankful for that.”
(On building chemistry with the rookies) “Yeah, I think it’s trying to just learn more about
those guys in the small moments outside of practice. Just catching up, seeing where they’re
from, just learning more about them and that’s a big part of it is building that relationship
and then obviously out here is trying to get as many reps as possible with some of the
young receivers and the new tight ends that we have. So, I think that’s a process that is
going to continue obviously into this break. And then training camp is a big time. You spend
a lot of time together, so just excited to get to know those guys more. I think when you build
that trust and that relationship, that’s really where you see it start to blossom on the field
because it’s so important, the off-the-field relationship.”
(On if a group trip is planned for the break) “Yeah, I think trying to get guys together, like I
said, everyone’s in different places and it’s really more for – obviously, we work and we
throw and we train and we do all that stuff but it’s more for the comradery and getting to
know each other. Especially for young guys, like we were just saying. Getting to know these
guys more than just the four hours we spend together here because we’re in meetings most
of the time. We’re running around, we don’t really have much time to catch up so I think just
getting the whole group together builds that bond and that chemistry and it’s been great
over the years doing it and I feel like guys get tighter and you know each other a little bit
better going into training camp and I feel like it helps our team.”
(On hitting more explosive plays) “I think it’s something that is important in offense.
Obviously, those explosive plays down the field and we had a lot of explosives, but it wasn’t
in the same way as you would think. It’s not as many shots down the field vertically, it was
more across the field, in-cuts. Maybe it’s overs across the field hitting where these guys are
running out the back door. So trying to find a way to take the top off the defense more, have
more explosives and because we have the skillset, we have guys that can run past DBs. I
can put the ball where I need to, where those guys can go get it so I think it was more about
spending the time and just kind of perfecting that and that’s still a work in progress, but we
made some big steps this offseason and you look at throughout my career and even two
years ago, that was something that we did really well with B.T. [WR Brian Thomas Jr.] and we
threw a lot of shots and hit a lot of those and it got better towards the end of the season last
year but just more consistency and there’s more guys than just B.T. that can do it. So, I think
having our whole offense where it’s not just B.T. running the shots, it could be Jakobi [WR
Jakobi Meyers], Parker [WR Parker Washington], Travis [WR/CB Travis Hunter], our tight
ends can run. I think there’s just so many different things that we can do that’ll open up our
offense to where we’re not predictable.”
