The far more Jacksonville Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan watched his group perform, the extra he recognized something:
"We desired a rebuild through the ground up," Khan explained.
So the Jaguars fired coach Mike Mularkey on Thursday right after just a single season, the worst in franchise historical past. The move came ten days immediately after Khan fired basic manager Gene Smith.
Khan also introduced new GM David Caldwell on Thursday, and by parting strategies with Mularkey, gave him a clean slate heading into 2013.
"I've generally been a a part of a winner," explained Caldwell, who signed a five-year deal. "I've under no circumstances been a a part of a losing group."
Mularkey gets the eighth NFL coach fired because the standard season ended. Two of these teams have due to the fact employed new coaches, with Andy Reid, who was fired from the Eagles, taking in excess of the Chiefs and Doug Marrone joining the Expenses.
Amongst candidates for that Jaguars coaching task are anticipated to get 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and Falcons special-teams coach Keith Armstrong, league sources informed ESPN.
Roman and Caldwell have been teammates and roommates during the 1990s even though attending John Carroll University.
"I believe Greg is often a heck of the coach," Caldwell mentioned.
The Jaguars by now have requested permission through the Rams to interview Schottenheimer, based on a league supply. Schottenheimer interviewed to the Jaguars' career final year.
Mularkey, who went 2-14 this season, became the eighth head coach fired because the finish on the frequent season. He looked like he can be one particular and performed when Khan parted strategies with Smith final week and gave Mularkey's assistants permission to seek out other jobs. While Khan in the long run employed Mularkey, Smith directed the coaching search final January that started off and ended with all the former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator.
"I felt like we necessary a fresh start out right here," Caldwell stated. "Coming in right here being a first-time basic manager, I am seeking a co-builder of our crew. When I talked to Shad when it comes to a culture modify along the football side, I felt like it had been much more of that. I felt like it had been an environment of transform. I felt like that to perform that, you have to get a fresh start off across the board."
Mularkey's short tenure -- he did not even final a year -- was filled with errors. His largest a single may possibly are actually his loyalty to Smith, who assembled a roster that lacked talent on the two sides on the ball.
Mularkey possibly caught with Smith's franchise quarterback, Blaine Gabbert, longer than he ought to have. As well as the coach's insistence the crew was closer than outsiders considered and his sturdy stance that he had the roster to turn factors close to became comical because the losses mounted. The Jaguars lost eight video games by at the least 16 factors, a staggering quantity of lopsided losses within a parity-filled league.
Mularkey would are greater served had he explained publicly what he voiced privately: The Jaguars did not have adequate playmakers or maybe a starting-caliber quarterback.
As a substitute, he by no means conceded that Jacksonville was a rebuilding venture that required time.
Now it's -- and Khan produced that clear Thursday.
"A year ago, when I came right here, the organizational judgment was we had been a fairly superior group, only a couple of gamers as well as a draft far from seriously competing to get a playoff spot," Khan mentioned. "As the year progressed, it had been fairly apparent that was not the situation, and we would want a fresh begin in addition to a rebuild in the ground up."
Mularkey signed a three-year contract on Jan. 11, 2012, finding a 2nd probability to become a head coach 6 many years following resigning with all the Buffalo Expenses.
His return was shaky through the commence.
His greatest player, operating back Maurice Jones-Drew, skipped offseason workout routines likewise as instruction camp plus the preseason inside a contract dispute. His to start with draft select, receiver Justin Blackmon, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI in June. And his group was riddled with injuries, together with essential ones to linebacker Daryl Smith and Jones-Drew.
Even items Mularkey had manage above went awry.
He needed to backtrack right after saying Chad Henne would compete with Gabbert for your commencing occupation in March. He developed a stir by threatening to fine gamers as much as $10,000 for discussing injuries. He at first played rookie receiver Kevin Elliott in excess of Cecil Shorts III early on. And he actually irked some gamers with difficult, padded practices late within a lost season.
Throw within the way he handled injuries to receiver Laurent Robinson (4 concussions in advance of happening IR) and Jones-Drew (admittedly must have had foot surgical treatment sooner), and there have been causes to doubt no matter whether Mularkey was lower out to become a head coach. Dating back to his last season in Buffalo, Mularkey has lost twenty of his final 23 video games.
Caldwell and Mularkey spent 4 many years collectively in Atlanta, obtaining to find out one another very well adequate that Caldwell did not have to have a sit down with Mularkey soon after he got the GM work Tuesday.
"It was difficult," Caldwell stated. "I possess a ton of respect for Mike. ... It is hardly ever effortless and that is most likely the worst a part of the small business."
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