Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pederson was fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars in what is probably the first of many “Black Monday” firings in professional football.
The NFL’s somber yearly tradition of identifying fall men for a failed 2024 season ended on Sunday, with Pederson and Jerod Mayo of New England suffering the first casualties.
Shortly after finishing their 4-13 season, the Patriots made a snap decision by firing rookie head coach Mayo on Sunday.
Pederson went 9-8 in 2022 and 2023 before finishing his three-year stint at Jacksonville with a terrible 4-13 campaign.
Once the brilliant field general who guided the Philadelphia Eagles to the 2018 Super Bowl championship, Pederson has had a lengthy decline in popularity.
His call of the “Philly Special,” a fourth-and-goal trick play that helped Philadelphia defeat the New England Patriots in the championship game, will always be remembered.
Later on Monday, head coaching positions with the Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders may possibly become available.
Mike McCarthy, the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, has a 49-35 record. However, in McCarthy’s five years as manager, the team that bills itself as “America’s Team” has only managed one postseason victory.
The Cowboys have a 29-season, Super Bowl-winning drought, yet they are still one of the most talked-about and watched teams. On January 28, 1996, in the midst of Bill Clinton’s two terms in the White House, Dallas won the championship.
The New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, and New York Jets were already using temporary coaches and are anticipated to begin the process of finding long-term replacements on Monday.
With the announcement that coach Brian Daboll would remain for his fourth season at the Big Blue’s leadership, the New York Giants broke away from the Black Monday carousel, albeit it seems like he’s already on a short leash for 2025.
This season, the Giants finished 3-14, and Daboll’s three-year record is 18-32-1 (.363). The squad will hold the third pick in the next draft and established a franchise record for losses this season.
While their former star running back, Saquon Barkley, flourished with division-winning Philadelphia, Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen both made it through a very trying season.
Giants fans were reminded of Barkley all the time because of cameras from HBO’s “Hard Knocks” behind-the-scenes series, which showed co-owner John Mara talking about how much it stung to lose Barkley.
In a startlingly prescient moment during contract negotiations with Barkley, Mara told Schoen, “I’ll have a hard time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia, I’ll tell you that.” He is by far our most popular player, as I have stated, simply by being around enough players.
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