Jaguars hearth HC Doug Pederson, retain Trent Baalke

Head coach Doug Pederson is not going to get an opportunity to show the tumultuous Jacksonville Jaguars 2024 season was a fluke. The Jaguars introduced on Monday that they’ve fired Pederson after a 4-13 season from “the very best staff assembled by the Jacksonville Jaguars, ever.” The staff ended 2024 going 3-10 in one-score video games.

Proprietor Shad Khan offered this assertion:

I had the troublesome job this morning of informing Doug Pederson of my intention to rent a brand new head coach to steer the Jacksonville Jaguars. Doug is an achieved soccer man who will undoubtedly get pleasure from one other chapter in his spectacular NFL profession, and I shall be rooting for Doug and his spouse Jeannie when that event arrives. As a lot as Doug and I each want his expertise right here in Jacksonville would have ended higher, I’ve an obligation in the beginning to serve the very best pursuits of our staff and particularly our followers, who faithfully help our staff and are overdue to be rewarded. In that spirit, the time to summon new management is now.

I strongly consider it’s potential subsequent season to revive the successful atmosphere we had right here not way back. I’ll collaborate with Normal Supervisor Trent Baalke and others, inside and near our group, to rent a frontrunner who shares my ambition and is able to seize the extraordinary alternative we are going to provide in Jacksonville.

After taking up for the 3-14 City Meyer-led 2021 Jaguars, Pederson instantly offered a swift tradition shift, main Jacksonville to a 9-8 AFC South Championship season, together with a house playoff win over the Chargers and a divisional spherical shut loss to the eventual Tremendous Bowl Champion Chiefs. Nonetheless, the staff would fail to construct on that preliminary success. After starting the 2023 season at 8-3, Jacksonville would crumble down the stretch ending 1-5 amid widespread accidents and questions in regards to the effectiveness of Pederson’s offensive scheme within the present NFL panorama.

The 2024 Jaguars would win simply two of the staff’s first 11 video games, and with rising proof displaying related points from 2023 of offensive sluggishness to start out video games, Pederson’s firing in some methods grew to become a foregone conclusion by the week 12 bye week. With extra rumors of dissension between Pederson and Baalke, but in addition Pederson and QB Trevor Lawrence a clear sweep simply made sense. After taking up for the 3-14 City Meyer-led Jaguars, Pederson’s 2024 squad then ended 2023 and started 2024 going 3-14 between 2023 week 13 and 2024 week 11. Time is a flat circle.

With the firing of former defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell after the 2023 season, Pederson would successfully double down on his offensive scheme and coordinator Press Taylor for 2024. In the meantime, Jacksonville’s defensive struggles from 2023 worsened in 2024 below new DC Ryan Nielsen. Concurrently, Pederson’s offensive unit constantly struggled to determine an id.

I merely don’t perceive this half-measure in retaining the architect of this “finest staff ever assembled”, nevertheless. In 53 complete video games as head coach of the Jaguars, Pederson compiled a 23-30 file, together with playoffs (.434). His ultimate recreation with the Jaguars was a 23-26 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. In the meantime, the retained Normal Supervisor Trent Baalke is 26-44 in Jacksonville, together with playoffs (.371) and proprietor Shad Khan is 67-150 since taking up the Jacksonville franchise in 2012 (.309) with two AFC South Championships and one AFC Championship look (2017). Whereas Pederson is out, plainly Baalke will once more be in Duval at the very least by way of the early phases of teaching interviews.

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