Todd Bowles Breaks Silence on Liam Coen's Departure

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will employ their fourth offensive coordinator in as many seasons in 2025 with Josh Grizzard taking over the role vacated by Liam Coen, who worked for the team last season.

Coen replaced Canales who replaced Byron Leftwich in 2023. 

Coen's departure this offseason to become the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars was shrouded in controversy. The 39-year-old initially turned down the job and was going to receive a raise to stay in Tampa Bay.

But after the Jaguars fired then-general manager Trent Baalke, owner Shahid Khan reached back out to Coen, who then ghosted the Bucs and accepted the job secretly.

Last week at the NFL Scouting Combine, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles commented on the situation and Coen's departure.

"Whether it happened differently or happened the same, I'm still looking for a new offensive coordinator," Bowles said of Coen. "For those of us who want to say we did things the right way for our whole lives, you can't throw stones at a glass house if everybody else lives in the glass house. He did what was right for him at the time. 

"Obviously, a lot of people in Tampa don't agree, but that wasn't even a factor — the point is, we had to find a new offensive coordinator."