Main adjustments might be coming to the Jacksonville Jaguars if they don’t beat the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport reported on Saturday night that dramatic moves could be made relating to head coach Doug Pederson and maybe common supervisor Trent Baalke as quickly as this week with a loss.
The Jaguars, who will likely be enjoying Sunday’s recreation with out beginning quarterback Trevor Lawrence, are a 14-point underdog towards one of many NFL’s greatest groups. So a loss appears very, very doable.
In accordance with Rapoport’s report, there’s a sense of “doom” inside the Jaguars group as folks anticipate the adjustments within the midst of a wildly disappointing season. The Jaguars are one of many NFL’s worst groups at 2-8 and are a really actual contender to choose No. 1 total for the third time previously 5 years.
Pederson is in his third 12 months with the workforce after taking up at the beginning of the 2022 season. His hiring was seen as a significant turning level for the Jaguars as he introduced a way of credibility to a company that had misplaced nearly all of it because of the City Meyer failure through the 2021 season. In his first 12 months, Pederson led the Jaguars to a surprising one-year turnaround that noticed the workforce go from 3-14 to 9-8 and the highest spot within the AFC South, whereas additionally profitable a playoff recreation.
The Jaguars gave the impression to be a younger, gifted workforce on the rise early in 2023 after they bought off to an 8-3 begin and had among the finest information within the AFC.
They ended up ending the season on a 1-5 run, and when mixed with this season’s 2-8 begin, are simply 3-13 over their previous 16 video games.
The Jaguars tried to spend large cash in free company and made an enormous funding in Lawrence to make him one of many highest-paid gamers in NFL historical past. None of it has labored, and with Lawrence regressing — and now sidelined — that funding is trying like a expensive mistake.
With all of that being the case, the results of Sunday’s recreation ought to not likely make or break any futures for Pederson or Baalke. If possession is already having the dialogue about making adjustments, and if adjustments are vital, the results of one recreation shouldn’t carry that a lot weight. At this level the one that would — and maybe ought to — stop these adjustments is that if Jacksonville one way or the other received out and performed considerably aggressive soccer.
That appears unlikely. So change might be on the horizon it doesn’t matter what.
