Liam Coen: I can do more to avoid delay of game penalties

The Jaguars were able to take advantage of the Eagles’ poor clock management to pull out a win at the end of last Sunday’s game in London, but their own miscues cost them a chance to take firmer control of the game earlier in the fourth quarter.

A Trevor Lawrence pass to tight end Brenton Strange landed the Jaguars at the Eagles’ 1-yard-line with under nine minutes to play, but they burned a timeout before getting the next snap off. After a false start and a short run, the Jaguars sandwiched a pair of delay of game penalties around an incompletion and ultimately failed on fourth down to end the drive without any points.

The Jags had another delay of game in the first quarter and head coach Liam Coen said on Wednesday that the penalties were “directly on me.” He also explained how he can do more to make sure that the Jaguars don’t continue to struggle with getting plays off in time.

“That was probably one of the louder atmospheres I’ve been in a while,” Coen said, via Michael DiRocco of ESPN.com. “Especially in those critical moments to where, ‘Hey guys, I can help you out with my playcall.’ Maybe shorten it up, trim the verbiage or call something a little bit more simplified down there where it was in that end zone specifically that got loud and some of those critical downs.”

The Jaguars had 13 penalties overall against the Eagles and they had 13 more against the Bengals in Week 4. They won that game as well, but the lack of discipline is something that is likely to catch up with them if Coen can’t clean up the operation in the coming weeks.