Jaguars flames Paul Mularkey

The far more Jacksonville Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan watched his crew perform, the extra he recognized something:

"We required a rebuild through the ground up," Khan explained.

So the Jaguars fired coach Mike Mularkey on Thursday right after just 1 season, the worst in franchise background. The move came ten days immediately after Khan fired basic manager Gene Smith.

Khan also introduced new GM David Caldwell on Thursday, and by parting means with Mularkey, gave him a clean slate heading into 2013.

"I've usually been a a part of a winner," explained Caldwell, who signed a five-year deal. "I've by no means been a a part of a losing crew."

Mularkey gets the eighth NFL coach fired because the standard season ended. Two of people teams have due to the fact employed new coaches, with Andy Reid, who was fired through the Eagles, taking more than the Chiefs and Doug Marrone joining the Expenses.

Amongst candidates for that Jaguars coaching task are anticipated to become 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and Falcons special-teams coach Keith Armstrong, league sources informed ESPN.

Roman and Caldwell have been teammates and roommates inside the 1990s whilst attending John Carroll University.

"I imagine Greg is really a heck of the coach," Caldwell mentioned.

The Jaguars currently have requested permission in the Rams to interview Schottenheimer, in line with a league supply. Schottenheimer interviewed for that Jaguars' occupation final year.

Mularkey, who went 2-14 this season, became the eighth head coach fired because the finish of your typical season. He looked like he will be 1 and completed when Khan parted strategies with Smith final week and gave Mularkey's assistants permission to seek out other jobs. Though Khan eventually employed Mularkey, Smith directed the coaching search final January that started off and ended with all the former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator.

"I felt like we necessary a fresh begin right here," Caldwell stated. "Coming in right here like a first-time standard manager, I am searching for a co-builder of our crew. When I talked to Shad with regards to a culture transform along the football side, I felt like it had been additional of that. I felt like it had been an environment of transform. I felt like that to undertake that, you have to get a fresh start out across the board."

Mularkey's short tenure -- he did not even final a year -- was filled with blunders. His largest 1 might are actually his loyalty to Smith, who assembled a roster that lacked talent on the two sides from the ball.

Mularkey most likely caught with Smith's franchise quarterback, Blaine Gabbert, longer than he should really have. Along with the coach's insistence the crew was closer than outsiders considered and his sturdy stance that he had the roster to turn points close to became comical since the losses mounted. The Jaguars lost eight video games by not less than 16 factors, a staggering amount of lopsided losses inside a parity-filled league.

Mularkey would are already much better served had he mentioned publicly what he voiced privately: The Jaguars did not have sufficient playmakers or possibly a starting-caliber quarterback.

As a substitute, he never ever conceded that Jacksonville was a rebuilding venture that necessary time.

Now it really is -- and Khan manufactured that clear Thursday.

"A year ago, when I came right here, the organizational judgment was we have been a rather great crew, only a handful of gamers in addition to a draft far from actually competing to get a playoff spot," Khan mentioned. "As the year progressed, it had been very clear that was not the situation, and we would want a fresh start off plus a rebuild through the ground up."

Mularkey signed a three-year contract on Jan. 11, 2012, finding a 2nd opportunity to get a head coach 6 many years immediately after resigning together with the Buffalo Expenses.

His return was shaky through the start off.

His most effective player, operating back Maurice Jones-Drew, skipped offseason workout routines likewise as teaching camp as well as preseason within a contract dispute. His very first draft choose, receiver Justin Blackmon, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI in June. And his crew was riddled with injuries, which includes crucial ones to linebacker Daryl Smith and Jones-Drew.

Even matters Mularkey had manage in excess of went awry.

He needed to backtrack following saying Chad Henne would compete with Gabbert for that commencing task in March. He designed a stir by threatening to fine gamers as much as $10,000 for discussing injuries. He at first played rookie receiver Kevin Elliott more than Cecil Shorts III early on. And he seriously irked some gamers with difficult, padded practices late inside a lost season.

Throw during the way he handled injuries to receiver Laurent Robinson (4 concussions in advance of happening IR) and Jones-Drew (admittedly really should have had foot surgical treatment sooner), and there have been factors to doubt whether or not Mularkey was lower out to become a head coach. Dating back to his last season in Buffalo, Mularkey has lost twenty of his final 23 video games.

Caldwell and Mularkey spent 4 many years collectively in Atlanta, obtaining to find out one another effectively adequate that Caldwell did not require a sit down with Mularkey right after he got the GM task Tuesday.

"It was difficult," Caldwell mentioned. "I possess a ton of respect for Mike. ... It is by no means straightforward and that is most likely the worst a part of the organization."

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