Jags Reporter BREAKS All the Rules With Wild Postgame Pep Talk

Evan & Tiki

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4.6 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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With the coaching carousel settling for now, the spotlight unexpectedly shifts to Jacksonville after the Jaguars’ playoff loss to Buffalo. A local reporter steps to the mic and skips the question entirely, offering Liam Cohen a heartfelt pep talk instead, and the media world erupts. Evan and Tiki find the moment funny, human, and completely overblown as a controversy. They push back on the outrage from fellow reporters, arguing there’s room for empathy as long as the tough questions still get asked, and imagine what the New York version of that moment would sound like if the Jets ever won 13 games. The conversation then spills into the Bills-Jaguars finish, revisiting the score versus kneel debate at the goal line, the fear of false starts and bad snaps, and why trusting your defense still makes sense in today’s NFL. Plus, calls on playoff officiating, pocketed flags in January, and a walk down memory lane with Giants fans reliving the most painful postseason losses of their lifetime.

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0:00.0	The plan is they want to keep LaFleur, but they have to work out a contract with only one year left before his contract expires. And as I mentioned earlier, who knows what LaFleur wants? He very well could look at coaching free agency and say, I could get there. I could really force the Green Bay Packers' hands. But we'll see. We'll keep an eye on it over the next couple of days. And I do think
0:21.1	now that Nick Siriani appears safe, that Matt LaFleur appears safe, the Buffalo Bills want to
0:26.7	playoff game, we will officially do our NFL head coach bingo game tomorrow, where we officially
0:34.6	make our predictions on where all of these head coaches will end up.
0:38.6	Because we were held off last week because of the possibility there'd be more vacancies.
0:43.2	I think tomorrow we should be safe.
0:45.9	Now, there's a big controversy going on, and I'm curious your opinion on it.
0:49.3	As somebody who's stood there and done press conferences and has answered questions from media members.
0:55.2	Yesterday after the Jacksonville Jaguars lost their brutal game to the Buffalo Bills,
0:59.7	Liam Cullen was not exactly asked a question,
1:03.8	but this exchange occurred between him and a Jacksonville reporter.
1:08.5	How you doing today?
1:09.4	Lynn Jones, Jacksonville, Free Press News.
1:11.4	I just want to tell you, congratulations on your success, young man. You hold your head up, all right? You guys have had a most magnificent season. Thank you. He did a great job out there today. So you just hold your head up, okay? And ladies and gentlemen, Duval, you're the one, all right? You keep it going. we got another season, okay?
1:26.8	I appreciate it.
1:27.2	Take care and much continued success
1:28.6	to you and the entire team.
1:30.0	Thank you, ma'am.
1:30.9	Now, my reaction is that was hilarious. There is a lot of controversy, specifically from reporters who are angry about this. Why? Saying, that's not what a reporter is supposed to know. You're supposed to ask a question. You can't be doing this. So what's your take on this? Or it's a small town and a small market. And this reporter
1:49.6	wanted Liam Cohen to know how her constituents felt. I don't have a problem with this.
1:56.8	There's humanity. Why are we got to be so hard nose all the time?
2:02.3	Ask the hard-hitting question.
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