Reporter Sparks Debate with Her Comment to Jaguars Head Coach During Post-Game Press Conference

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• “You hold your head up, alright?
• You guys have had a most magnificent season.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementShe continued, “You keep it going we got another season, okay?
• Take care and much continued success to you and the entire team.”Coen, 40, smiled and replied, “Thank you, ma’am.”Jones’ remarks were alternately praised as “uplifting” for the coach and team — which lost in the wild card playoff game 27-24 after finishing the regular season with a 13-4 record — and inappropriate by social media users and journalists.“Very nice exchange,” Ian Begley, who covers the Knicks for SNY TV, wrote on X.
• “Wouldn’t call it an exchange between a reporter and the coach, though.
• Uplifting the head coach after a loss is not part of a sports reporter’s job.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAnother journalist, Brandon Warne, commented: “This is not awesome.