With a 4-13 file in 2024, the Jacksonville Jaguars personal the fifth decide within the 2025 NFL draft. Instantly after the season’s finish, head coach Doug Pederson was fired after three seasons. Nonetheless, basic supervisor Trent Baalke retained his posistion.
Proprietor Shad Khan stated that parting methods with a head coach and GM in the identical offseason could be organizational “suicide.” On Wednesday, Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator Liam Coen withdrew from the pinnacle teaching search in Jacksonville. Coen as an alternative selected to stick with Tampa Bay as a coordinator. This angered Khan and GM Trent Baalke was fired hours later. Baalke was reportedly a motive why Coen didn’t need the job.
Trent Baalke is out as GM in Jacksonville after 4 seasons
There may not be a much bigger fumble this cycle than how the #Jaguars dealt with this. Prime teaching candidates had been by no means going to Jacksonville with Trent Baalke nonetheless in place. Now, in spite of everything the highest names have turned them down, the workforce (proprietor) lastly realizes it. What a large number. https://t.co/7gIzAfDC4A
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) January 22, 2025
For weeks groups have been interviewing candidates for head teaching vacancies. The Patriots, Jets, and Bears have already discovered their subsequent head coaches for the 2025 season. Jacksonville is one franchise that’s nonetheless looking. Stories across the league stated that Bucs OC Liam Coen was scheduled for a second in-person interview this week with the Jaguars. Nonetheless, Coen withdrew from the pinnacle teaching search.
There was information across the NFL that prime candidates for the job didn’t wish to work with Trent Baalke. That’s why the Jaguars misplaced out on Ben Johnson and Liam Coen. Baalke has been the final supervisor of the Jaguars since 2021. His first massive transfer was choosing Trevor Lawrence with the primary general decide. Nonetheless, he additionally employed Urab Meyer to be the pinnacle coach and that ended after simply 13 video games in 2021. After Meyer, Baalke employed Doug Pederson and Jacksonville had the #1 decide in back-to-back drafts.
In 2022, Baalke was criticized for choosing DE Travon Walker forward of Aidan Hutchinson. Since Baalke took over as GM, solely 9 of his 38 picks are full-time starters. Dropping out on a head teaching candidate due to Trent Baalke was the ultimate straw for proprietor Shad Khan. He instructed the media that he’s “deeply dedicated to constructing a winner” in Jacksonville. The workforce might want to rent a brand new head coach and basic supervisor this offseason.
