The 2025 NFL head teaching carousel is in full swing with the Chicago Bears snapping up Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, the consensus prime coach out there for this cycle. The Jacksonville Jaguars missed out on hiring Johnson, who reportedly needed the Jaguars head teaching place and needed to work with younger quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Nonetheless, the one factor Johnson didn’t need to do (in keeping with a number of reviews) was work with Trent Baalke.
Within the Jaguars’ offseason press convention earlier this month, Baalke and proprietor Shad Khan met with the media and had been each adamant that not cleansing home — regardless of Khan’s questions of what that phrase truly means — wouldn’t hinder the group’s teaching search. Khan even went as far as to say that if he felt it was going to be a problem and a candidate had a greater possibility for a normal supervisor, he can be open to creating modifications.
Clearly not.
The Jaguars are as soon as once more shedding the battle of optics within the NFL offseason with their followers. The Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson after one other disappointing season, as they need to have, however one very particular transfer tainted the rest that will be coming. The Jaguars are in the long run sport of the seek for their new head coach within the 2025 NFL offseason and it doesn’t matter what route they go, the actual fact of the matter is it’s all the time going to be tainted. The optics of whoever they rent is all the time going to look dangerous, at the least within the rapid, due to one factor particularly.
Basic supervisor Trent Baalke.
When Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan determined to make the transfer of firing Pederson on the finish of the season, just about everybody was shocked that the firing of Baalke didn’t observe quickly after. Much more shock swept not simply the fanbase, however the NFL as an entire, that not solely was Baalke not going to be fired, however he can be closely concerned within the seek for the Jacksonville Jaguars’ new head coach. There have been reviews as early as November in the course of the 2024 season that Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was the man for the Jaguars and he needed the job. As we acquired to the offseason these reviews and rumors, the man everybody with a training emptiness needed, needed the Jaguars job.
May you imagine that? Lastly, the Jaguars are the apple of somebody’s eye. Not simply somebody, however the man everybody else says is the most effective and the man everybody else desires.
However they screwed it up.
Due to Trent Baalke.
The Jaguars are set to satisfy with Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen, former Las Vegas Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham and former New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh in particular person this week for a second spherical of interviews for his or her vacant head teaching place. Most imagine that the job now, with Johnson out of the combo, Coen’s if he desires it. Personally, I believe Coen is a superbly good rent for what the Jaguars need to accomplish, however due to how the Jaguars have performed themselves this offseason, it’s going to taint whoever they’re going to rent within the brief time period.
The Jaguars have as soon as once more, within the brief time period, fumbled the bag.
Their optics on their decision-making processes seem like a jumbled mess, as soon as once more.