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 normal supervisor Trent Baalke as quickly as this week with a loss.
The Jaguars, who can be enjoying Sunday’s recreation with out beginning quarterback Trevor Lawrence, are a 14-point underdog in opposition to one of many NFL’s finest groups. So a loss appears very, very attainable.
In response to Rapoport’s report, there’s a sense of “doom” throughout 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 select No. 1 general for the third time previously 5 years.
Pederson is in his third 12 months with the staff after taking up 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 company that had misplaced nearly all of it because of the City Meyer failure in the course of the 2021 season. In his first 12 months, Pederson led the Jaguars to a surprising one-year turnaround that noticed the staff 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, proficient staff on the rise early in 2023 once they obtained off to an 8-3 begin and had the most effective 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 massive 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 probably not make or break any futures for Pederson or Baalke. If possession is already having the dialogue about making adjustments, and if adjustments are crucial, 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 by some means gained out and performed considerably aggressive soccer.
That appears unlikely. So change might be on the horizon it doesn’t matter what.