New rule allows Jaguars to interview head coach candidates starting next week

2 years ago 278

The Jacksonville Jaguars mislaid again connected Sunday but this clip not nether Urban Meyer.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Jaguars mislaid again connected Sunday but this clip not nether Urban Meyer.

Following past week’s firing of Meyer, the squad lost 30-16 nether caller interim manager Darrell Bevell.

The nonaccomplishment came aft News4JAX learned this play the squad does not program to wage the remaining information of Meyer’s contract which was worthy millions of dollars.

Now fans are near to wonderment what’s up for the team.

On the coaching front, determination was an absorbing facet of the timing of Meyer’s firing. It involves a caller regularisation the NFL has instituted this play that allows for teams to commencement interviewing prospective coaches adjacent if the play is inactive going on.

Starting adjacent Tuesday aft Week 15, Shad Khan tin commencement interviewing coaching candidates virtually, according to News4JAX sports newsman Jamal St. Cyr.

Another happening that’s connected the minds of fans is the NFL Draft.

Right present the Jaguars own the archetypal wide prime successful the draught with their grounds of 2-12.

St. Cyr said determination are a fewer options for the team. It could either instrumentality the archetypal prime successful the draught — oregon 2nd oregon 3rd if they triumph a crippled oregon 2 — oregon it could commercialized down to get aggregate archetypal oregon second-round draught picks.

Last twelvemonth the squad utilized the archetypal wide to draught backmost Trevor Lawrence. St. Cyr said it’s imaginable they made commercialized down due to the fact that determination are truthful galore positions the squad needs to capable and the draught isn’t arsenic loaded with endowment arsenic it was past year.

“You tin cod a clump of draught picks successful the process. Teams similar the Cleveland Browns person done that to rebuild their team. If you commercialized down from 1 of those apical picks, you get a ample draught bundle successful exchange,” helium said.

Fans are clamoring for improvement.

“It is hard to watch. It is hurtful. But I’m not giving up,” said Jaguars instrumentality Stacy Woolbright-Johnson.

Urban Meyer spoke publically for the archetypal clip to NFL.com pursuing his firing by proprietor Shad Khan aboriginal Thursday aft weeks of Meyer’s mounting nationalist blunders and adjacent much missteps down the scenes.

Meyer told newsman Ian Rapoport helium was disappointed successful however his Jacksonville tenure unfolded and apologized to the city.

“I conscionable apologize to Jacksonville,” Meyer said Friday. “I emotion Jacksonville. It’s 1 of the reasons I took the job. I inactive deliberation Shad’s a large owner. It’s heart-breaking. I conscionable had a imagination of it becoming a destination spot with a caller installation helium agreed to physique and immoderate time to locomotion into that stadium wherever it’s lasting country only. Because I cognize however atrocious the radical of Jacksonville privation it. So, I’m conscionable heartbroken that we weren’t capable to bash that. I inactive judge it’s going to beryllium done. It’s excessively bully of a place.”