Liam Coen

Yeah.

You know, I think I mentioned it before where I was at Maine and he was at Boston College.

We didn't know each other, but his brother was a UMass alum.

But I didn't really know them that well.

I'd heard of his family.

More so because of his brothers that were high school coaches in Jersey.

And then I went down to watch a practice at Boston College for staff development.

And I just, you know, was watching their practice and saw his style and the way that his players kind of responded to him.

Watch their meetings.

I was like, oh, dude's pretty impressive, you know, and just kind of kept his name and then linked up a few times randomly.

And then he worked for Don Brown at Michigan, which was my college head coach.

And so then there was a natural connection.

connection that was made and so we kind of just stayed in touch followed them over the years and then when you looked at Green Bay last year their run defense specifically and how they played the run how they played as a group I really respected and he made it hard coming here he made it really hard but

It was very clear.

I know some of his players in Green Bay at the time were hurt when he left, and that was a huge reason why he didn't really want to leave was because of the relationship with the players.

So his personality shows, right, in our defense and in the staff and the way that they kind of prepare, go through things, you know,

the people that he's worked with, you can see so much of what he's taken from those people and made his own.

You know, when you see a player walk in to the stadium with his face on his shirt, as Antonio did, it's kind of cool.

You know, he shows you that there's a relationship there.

And, you know, he's done a great, he's a very passionate person.