Main modifications may very well 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 basic supervisor Trent Baalke as quickly as this week with a loss.
The Jaguars, who can be taking part in Sunday’s sport with out beginning quarterback Trevor Lawrence, are a 14-point underdog towards one of many NFL’s finest groups. So a loss appears very, very attainable.
In keeping with Rapoport’s report, there’s a sense of “doom” throughout the Jaguars group as individuals anticipate the modifications 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 general for the third time prior to now 5 years.
Pederson is in his third 12 months with the crew after taking on at the beginning of the 2022 season. His hiring was seen as a serious turning level for the Jaguars as he introduced a way of credibility to a corporation that had misplaced nearly all of it as a result of City Meyer failure throughout the 2021 season. In his first 12 months, Pederson led the Jaguars to a surprising one-year turnaround that noticed the crew go from 3-14 to 9-8 and the highest spot within the AFC South, whereas additionally successful a playoff sport.
The Jaguars appeared to be a younger, gifted crew on the rise early in 2023 after they received off to an 8-3 begin and had among the best data 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 huge 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 wanting like a pricey mistake.
With all of that being the case, the results of Sunday’s sport ought to probably not make or break any futures for Pederson or Baalke. If possession is already having the dialogue about making modifications, and if modifications are needed, the results of one sport mustn’t carry that a lot weight. At this level the one that might — and maybe ought to — forestall these modifications is that if Jacksonville by some means received out and performed considerably aggressive soccer.
That appears unlikely. So change might be on the horizon it doesn’t matter what.
