You Can’t Outrun What You Won’t Face - Liam Coen, Pastor Joby Martin & Denny Thompson

Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen on this week's episode of Built 4 More.

Liam was a four-year starting quarterback at UMass where he still holds multiple school passing records. He spent nearly a decade grinding through small Northeast programs  Brown, Rhode Island, and Maine, writing handwritten letters and knocking on every NFL door he could find, until one relationship finally got him in with Sean McVay and the Rams. A few years later he's the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and in year one he took a franchise that had been going nowhere and led it to 13 wins and a division championship.

But long before any of that, Liam walked through the hardest thing of his life. He opens up about losing his mother, Beth after  a four year battle with Lyme disease while he was in college and his dad was in the hospital. He talks honestly about burying that grief for a decade, the way it eventually crept up and started to eat at him, the mental health toll of pretending he was fine, and how a real relationship with Jesus finally brought him grace, forgiveness, and healing.

Joby, Denny, and Liam talk about authenticity and why players "sniff out a fraud" instantly, the permission to fail that unlocked Trevor Lawrence, why he deleted all of his social media, the difference between a hero and a warrior, why "balance doesn't exist," what Travis Hunter really brings to the locker room, and what it looks like to stop trying to be someone else and become who God actually made you.

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Chapters:

00:00 – Meet Coach Liam Coen

04:36 – Why He Fell in Love With Jacksonville

07:11 – How He Turned the Jaguars Around

09:48 – Did He Know Trevor Could Be This?

10:19 – Watching Trevor Lawrence as a Freshman

13:17 – "Go Be You": Unlocking Trevor

15:28 – The Permission to Fail

18:21 – Why He Stopped Trying to Be Other Coaches

20:17 – The Houston Collapse

21:12 – Hero vs. Warrior: The Meeting That Turned the Season

24:59 – The Youngest Staff in NFL History

27:24 – "Do I Belong Here?"

30:25 – The Night He Knew He Belonged

32:39 – What Sean McVay Taught Him About People

33:32 – Tony Boselli and the Standard

35:18 – The Travis Hunter Trade

35:44 – The Real Travis Hunter

39:34 – From UMass QB to NFL Head Coach

40:38 – How He Went From Maine to the Rams

46:37 – "We'll Play Anybody, Anywhere, Anytime"

49:22 – The Pressure of High Expectations

51:56 – Losing His Mom

55:07 – The Trauma He Buried for 10 Years

55:50 – How Faith Brought Him Grace and Forgiveness

59:05 – The Cleats and the Holy Spirit

1:00:38 – The Myth of "There"

1:01:28 – The Question That Made Him Quit Social Media

1:03:26 – Why Balance Doesn't Exist

1:05:48 – Family Days and Putting People First

1:08:22 – Why He's Grateful to Coach in Jacksonville

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