In what will probably be several “Black Monday” firings in professional football, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pederson.
The NFL’s somber yearly tradition of identifying fall men for a failed 2024 season ended 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. In the post-Bill Belichick era, Patriots owner Robert Kraft expressed regret for abandoning Mayo with a decimated roster.
“I am responsible for this entire situation,” Krusk told reporters on Monday.
“Because I put Jerod in an unworkable scenario, I feel awful for him. I am confident that he has all the resources necessary to succeed in this league as a head coach. All he needed was more time before accepting the position. Ultimately, I support this team above all else, and I must now look for a coach who can lead us back to the postseason and, ideally, titles.”
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.
This morning, I faced the challenging duty of telling Doug Pederson that I would be appointing a new head coach to guide the Jacksonville Jaguars.Shad Khan, the owner of Jags, stated in a statement.
I will be cheering for Doug and his wife Jeannie when that time comes since Doug is a successful football player who will surely enjoy another chapter in his remarkable NFL career.”
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 haven’t won a Super Bowl in 29 seasons, but they’re still one of the most talked-about and followed 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.
Despite appearing to already be on a short leash for 2025, the New York Giants announced that coach Brian Daboll would remain for his fourth season, ending the Black Monday carousel.
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.
Cameras from HBO’s behind-the-scenes series “Hard Knocks,” which showed co-owner John Mara describing how much it stung to lose Barkley, served as a daily reminder of Barkley to Giants fans.
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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