Jaguars hearth Henry Mularkey

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

"We desired a rebuild in the ground up," Khan stated.

So the Jaguars fired coach Mike Mularkey on Thursday soon after just one particular season, the worst in franchise historical past. The move came ten days immediately after Khan fired standard 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 constantly 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 group."

Mularkey gets to be the eighth NFL coach fired because the frequent season ended. Two of these teams have because 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 to the Jaguars coaching task are anticipated to get 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and Falcons special-teams coach Keith Armstrong, league sources informed ESPN.

Roman and Caldwell had been teammates and roommates during the 1990s when attending John Carroll University.

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

The Jaguars currently have requested permission from your Rams to interview Schottenheimer, based on a league supply. Schottenheimer interviewed to the Jaguars' work final year.

Mularkey, who went 2-14 this season, became the eighth head coach fired because the finish in the normal season. He looked like he could be one particular and performed when Khan parted methods with Smith final week and gave Mularkey's assistants permission to look for other jobs. Though Khan eventually employed Mularkey, Smith directed the coaching search final January that started out and ended together with the former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator.

"I felt like we essential a fresh start off right here," Caldwell mentioned. "Coming in right here being a first-time common manager, I am searching for a co-builder of our group. When I talked to Shad with regards to a culture modify along the football side, I felt like it had been far more of that. I felt like it had been an environment of modify. I felt like that to perform that, you have to possess a fresh start off across the board."

Mularkey's short tenure -- he did not even final a year -- was filled with errors. His greatest one particular may well are actually his loyalty to Smith, who assembled a roster that lacked talent on each sides of your ball.

Mularkey likely caught with Smith's franchise quarterback, Blaine Gabbert, longer than he need to have. Plus the coach's insistence the group was closer than outsiders believed and his powerful stance that he had the roster to turn matters all around became comical since the losses mounted. The Jaguars lost eight video games by at the least 16 factors, a staggering quantity of lopsided losses within a parity-filled league.

Mularkey would have already been greater served had he mentioned publicly what he voiced privately: The Jaguars did not have adequate playmakers or maybe a starting-caliber quarterback.

Alternatively, he in no way conceded that Jacksonville was a rebuilding task that desired time.

Now it is actually -- and Khan created that clear Thursday.

"A year ago, when I came right here, the organizational judgment was we have been a fairly superior group, only a handful of gamers along with a draft far from genuinely competing to get a playoff spot," Khan mentioned. "As the year progressed, it had been rather apparent that was not the situation, and we would have to have a fresh commence in addition to a rebuild in the ground up."

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

His return was shaky in the start out.

His ideal player, operating back Maurice Jones-Drew, skipped offseason routines at the same time as instruction camp along with the preseason within a contract dispute. His to start with draft choose, receiver Justin Blackmon, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI in June. And his group was riddled with injuries, such as critical ones to linebacker Daryl Smith and Jones-Drew.

Even matters Mularkey had management above went awry.

He needed to backtrack soon after saying Chad Henne would compete with Gabbert for your starting up career in March. He developed a stir by threatening to fine gamers as much as $10,000 for discussing injuries. He at first played rookie receiver Kevin Elliott in excess of Cecil Shorts III early on. And he actually irked some gamers with difficult, padded practices late inside a lost season.

Throw within the way he handled injuries to receiver Laurent Robinson (4 concussions in advance of happening IR) and Jones-Drew (admittedly ought to have had foot surgical treatment sooner), and there have been causes to doubt irrespective of whether Mularkey was reduce 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 with each other in Atlanta, having to learn one another effectively adequate that Caldwell did not have to have a sit down with Mularkey right after he got the GM career Tuesday.

"It was hard," Caldwell mentioned. "I possess a ton of respect for Mike. ... It truly is hardly ever simple and that is almost certainly the worst a part of the small business."

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