Liam Coen has already figured out one thing Dave Canales somehow never could

Football is both a complicated game and an incredibly simple one to understand. There are concepts that require such scientific dedication to understand that it comes as no surprise that guys like Tom Brady are so psychotically good at what they do.

Then there's the flip side of that, where the simplest answer is usually correct, and there's no need to galaxy-brain your way around it. Liam Coen has established an ability to thread the needle between both of those approaches; he's put together some incredibly complex offensive schemes through two games as Tampa Bay Buccaneer's offensive coordinator while not overlooking the obvious.

Chris Godwin is the obvious factor to not overlook, despite what happened last year and how hard it seemed to work him into the mix.

Through two games Liam Coen has done what former offensive coordinator Dave Canales never seemed capable of doing -- using Godwin to open up the offense and win games.

Chris Godwin is off to an incredible start thanks to Liam Coen

So far this season, Godwin has 200 yards and a pair of touchdowns in just two games. He's also been targeted 16 times, which means he's been on the receiving end of roughly 32 percent of the Buccaneers passes this season.

This time last year he had just over 100 yards, zero touchdowns, and had only 21 percent of total targets. While the Bucs started both seasons 2-0, it's hard to deny that things feel much different and far more confident than they did after Week 2 last season.

Coen is feeding the offense through Godwin, and it's having exactly the positive impact you'd expect.

Baker didn't complete a pass to someone other than Godwin until the third drive of the game, which was a pass to Mike Evans. For the second straight game Godwin finished as the leading receiver for Tampa Bay which is a far cry from how he was used a year ago.

A surface-level glance at the stat sheet suggests that Godwin has a rather successful season under Canales -- which he did to an extent. He finished a yard better than he did in 2022, but the way he was used is where Bucs fans had their frustrations.

It felt like the commitment to getting the run game going came at the detriment to Godwin's usage. He went long stretches without seeing a target and had a game against the Panthers in which he made up more on the ground than he did through the air.

Canales deserves some credit for trying to shake things up, but one of his fatal flaws was an inability to filter the offense through his two best players. We're not seeing that under Coen and the result is Godwin looknig like his vintage self and the Buccaneers offense looking as sharp as we've seen it in years.

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