Liam Coen, Baker Mayfield And Nick Caley
January 31st, 2025
Quite an education was delivered this morning from a QB who has played in various systems and has studied departed Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen.
Brian Hoyer played for 9 teams in 15 NFL seasons, his last stop being in Las Vegas and his first stop backing up Tom Brady as a rookie in 2009.
Nowadays, Hoyer is a co-host on SiriusXM NFL Radio and quickly has gotten a reputation as a guy very comfortable talking Xs and Os and offensive schemes and evolution. Joe loves it, but Joe suspects many fans aren’t interested.
Regardless, Hoyer talked today about the Bucs’ search for a new offensive coordinator.
That led to Hoyer sharing that he watched Coen at a coaching clinic and was surprised that the construction of his call sheet — and his explanation of how he builds it — was identical to the Patriots’ system.
Hoyer explained the Patriots call sheet is very different from the Sean McVay-style sheet, but that insight told Hoyer that Coen was more of a hybrid coordinator and not a McVay clone.
The Bucs interviewed Marcus Brady (Chargers) and Nick Caley (Rams) to replace Coen, and Hoyer noted he worked with both of them and they could be more in the Coen mold than others.
Interesting to Joe was Hoyer talking about how Baker Mayfield will/should drive the playbook construction with the new coordinator, and Hoyer sort of said what Sage Ira Kaufman has been saying on his podcast: that the Bucs almost have too much talent on the offense to screw it up.
January 31st, 2025 at 2:49 pm
“the Bucs almost have too much talent on the offense to screw it up.”
But they have a HC that is notorious for screwing it up!
January 31st, 2025 at 2:54 pm
If we have too much talent to screw it up the I wonder…how did we screw it up?
January 31st, 2025 at 2:54 pm
Nick Caley just turned down the Jets.
January 31st, 2025 at 2:55 pm
@Tye
Please explain how our head coach is notorious for screwing up our offense.
January 31st, 2025 at 2:56 pm
bowles will claim hes 3 for 3 on offensive coordinators
January 31st, 2025 at 2:57 pm
Joe do you have the link to the Hoyer podcast? Would love to listen!
January 31st, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Leftwich screwed it up……
January 31st, 2025 at 3:07 pm
Are you guys saying the the offense was wcrewed up last year? I thought it was ranked pretty high.
Or are you saying that Bowes defence was screqwd up, when the article is nothing about that?
Fire Trask
January 31st, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Grizzard named OC
January 31st, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Josh grizzard was just elevated to OC.
January 31st, 2025 at 3:23 pm
Josh Grizzard, the future 2026 head coach of the Cleveland Browns
January 31st, 2025 at 3:27 pm
Tbbucs3 Says:
Josh Grizzard, the future 2026 head coach of the Cleveland Browns
^^^^^
That is a great call
January 31st, 2025 at 3:29 pm
Grizz promoted so offense basically the same.
January 31st, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Let’s enjoy our new OC for one year. Until Bowles is fired the revolving door of OCs will continue
January 31st, 2025 at 3:49 pm
HC Grover: Defense
January 31st, 2025 at 4:20 pm
@HC Grover: the misfortune of the Bucs having one of the poorest defenses in the league has wasted one of the league top offenses…
Oc done his job and very well…
The DC is one of the worst in the league failure at his position!
January 31st, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Tbbucs, do you really think the Browns are that smart? Or that Grizzard would be that stupid?