Big Cat Country
The results are in!
This week, we asked Jacksonville Jaguars fans whether they are confident in the team’s direction.
7% of respondents said yes.
We also asked fans to grade Shad Khan’s decision to fire Doug Pederson and retain Trent Baalke.
The vast majority of respondents said it was a failure.
“If we go back,” Khan explained Monday, “three years ago—or three seasons ago—obviously, we made the playoffs, we’re in the division game. Last year, we started off 8-3 and then went 1-5, OK, we didn’t make the playoffs. It was a winning season, but didn’t make the playoffs. After that, I started, really, right in Nashville, sat down with Doug, ‘OK, what are we going to do?’ And he identified, on the defensive side, we needed to change the staff and so on. As the season progressed, obviously, we weren’t doing well. We were close like yesterday, but not close enough to win the game. Then as I spoke to Doug, even last week for a good length of time, I just came to the conclusion what we were doing was not working and a change in direction was needed.”
“We’re all in this together. So that includes me, obviously, includes Trent, includes everyone on the football side. But I think it’s where we need the most change is, really, is on the coaching side and that’s where we’re starting.”
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