NFL Winners and Losers: Doug Pederson was once a coaching star. What happened?

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan laid out an expectation for his team a few days before this season started.

“Make no mistake: this is the best team assembled by the Jacksonville Jaguars ever,” Khan said.

Not too long ago, that best Jaguars team assembled would have seemingly been in great hands with head coach Doug Pederson.

When the 2017 Philadelphia Eagles won the only Super Bowl in franchise history, certain truths seemed apparent when it came to Pederson. He was revolutionizing the game by being more aggressive on fourth downs than any coach before him (that has held true). He was a quarterback whisperer who had Carson Wentz on an MVP track and then coached up Nick Foles to an epic Super Bowl MVP run. He was also a top five, at worst, coach in the NFL. He outcoached Bill Belichick in a Super Bowl. That happened. And he was going to be the Eagles’ coach for a long time. That was Pederson’s second season as head coach.

On Sunday, as the Detroit Lions crushed the best team the Jaguars have ever assembled 52-6, which is the worst loss in Jaguars history, those days of Pederson being a star in the coaching industry seemed like a lifetime ago. The loss dropped the Jaguars to 2-9 and might finish Pederson’s time with the Jaguars.

Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson is 2-9 this season. (Photo by Jorge Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

On Saturday, someone leaked to NFL Media that with the Jaguars’ bye week coming up, big changes could be made including firing Pederson. That’s an underhanded way of finding out that keeping your job might depend on winning at Detroit, but at least Pederson knew the stakes. And like just about everything else since that Super Bowl win with the Eagles, Pederson fell short. The Lions were up 28-3 late in the second quarter. Jared Goff finished with 412 yards for four touchdowns and a perfect 158.3 passer rating. There have been plenty of embarrassing days for the Jaguars this season, but Sunday was a new low. If the season ended today,…

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Publish date : 2024-11-17 21:21:37

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