Jaguars HC Liam Coen’s first move: hire Anthony Campanile as the defensive coordinator

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jan 31, 2025, 18:56 IST

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Jacksonville Jaguars' new head coach Liam Coen addresses the team's defensive struggles by hiring Anthony Campanile as the aggressive new defensive coordinator. Campanile, previously with the Green Bay Packers, brings a proven defensive track record to improve the Jaguars' consistently underperforming defense rankings.

Jaguars HC Liam Coen’s first move: hire Anthony Campanile as the defensive coordinator

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The whole point of becoming a head coach is realizing what your team needs the most. That’s what Jacksonville Jaguars' new head coach, Liam Coen did. He knows that the Jaguars’ defense has been vanquishing, so he took up their case and remedied it. He remedied the case by hiring an aggressive defensive coordinator called Anthony Campanile.

The Jacksonville Jaguars’ defense has been ranked 31st in 2024, 22nd in 2023, 14th in 2022, and 28th in 2021

What's Wrong with the Jaguars Defense?

The Jaguars’ defensive coordinator in 2021 was Joe Cullen; in 2022 and 2023 was Mike Caldwell, and now, in 2024, it was Ryan Nielsen. It has been consistently ranked in the 20s under the guidance of coach Doug Pederson and other defensive coordinators. The new head coach for the Jaguars, Liam Coen, paid exact and pressing heed to this issue. Coen’s brought the best aggressive defensive coordinator to change the defense weather in his team!

Jaguars coach Liam Coen released a statement. It read: “Anthony Campanile represents exactly what we want to be as a defensive unit and football team.”

Liam Coen shared in a team statement,
“Anthony Campanile represents exactly what we want to be as a defensive unit and football team. He brings an aggressive defensive mindset and a system that is adaptable to our players and allows them to play fast and physical.”

Jaguars hire first-time defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile to lead defense

Anthony Campanile was Green Bay Packers linebackers coach and running back coordinator

While everybody is busy switching from the defensive/offensive coordinator position to the head coach position, like Jacksonville Jaguars’ current head coach, Liam Coen did (Coen was the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams), there is someone who got switched to a defensive coordinator position from some other position.
And that someone is 42-year-old Anthony Campanile; he was Green Bay Packers linebackers coach and running back coordinator in the year 2024. Campanile allowed only 99.4 rushing yards a game there.

But that doesn’t mean Anthony Campanile doesn’t garner defensive coordinator skills

Anthony was the defensive coordinator for Don Bosco Prep (New Jersey) between 2007 and 2009, defensive assistant at Rutgers between 2012 and 2013, defensive backs coach at Boston College between 2016 and 2017, and co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Boston College in 2018. It would be Anthony’s 6th NFL season and first as the defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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