Jaguars fire Henry Mularkey

The a lot more Jacksonville Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan watched his crew perform, the much more he recognized something:

"We desired a rebuild from your ground up," Khan stated.

So the Jaguars fired coach Mike Mularkey on Thursday following just one particular season, the worst in franchise historical past. The move came ten days following 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 often been a a part of a winner," explained Caldwell, who signed a five-year deal. "I've never ever been a a part of a losing group."

Mularkey gets the eighth NFL coach fired because the common season ended. Two of people teams have because employed new coaches, with Andy Reid, who was fired through the Eagles, taking above the Chiefs and Doug Marrone joining the Expenses.

Amid candidates for your Jaguars coaching occupation 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 have been teammates and roommates from the 1990s although attending John Carroll University.

"I imagine Greg is usually a heck of the coach," Caldwell explained.

The Jaguars presently have requested permission from your Rams to interview Schottenheimer, as outlined by a league supply. Schottenheimer interviewed for your Jaguars' work final year.

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

"I felt like we desired a fresh begin right here," Caldwell explained. "Coming in right here as being a first-time standard manager, I am in search of a co-builder of our crew. When I talked to Shad when it comes to a culture adjust 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 accomplish that, you have to possess a fresh begin across the board."

Mularkey's short tenure -- he did not even final a year -- was filled with errors. His largest a single might have already been his loyalty to Smith, who assembled a roster that lacked talent on each sides from the ball.

Mularkey possibly caught with Smith's franchise quarterback, Blaine Gabbert, longer than he really should have. As well as the coach's insistence the group was closer than outsiders imagined and his solid stance that he had the roster to turn factors about became comical because the losses mounted. The Jaguars lost eight video games by not less than 16 factors, a staggering quantity of lopsided losses within a parity-filled league.

Mularkey would happen to be far better served had he explained publicly what he voiced privately: The Jaguars did not have sufficient playmakers or maybe a starting-caliber quarterback.

As an alternative, he by no means conceded that Jacksonville was a rebuilding task that desired time.

Now it truly is -- and Khan manufactured that clear Thursday.

"A year ago, when I came right here, the organizational judgment was we have been a very excellent group, only a number of gamers in addition to a draft far from definitely competing for the playoff spot," Khan stated. "As the year progressed, it had been quite evident that was not the situation, and we would will need a fresh start off along with a rebuild from your ground up."

Mularkey signed a three-year contract on Jan. 11, 2012, acquiring a 2nd opportunity to get a head coach 6 many years following resigning using the Buffalo Expenses.

His return was shaky through the start off.

His very best player, operating back Maurice Jones-Drew, skipped offseason routines at the same time as coaching 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, like crucial ones to linebacker Daryl Smith and Jones-Drew.

Even issues Mularkey had manage more than went awry.

He needed to backtrack following saying Chad Henne would compete with Gabbert for your commencing occupation in March. He made a stir by threatening to fine gamers as much as $10,000 for discussing injuries. He at first played rookie receiver Kevin Elliott more than Cecil Shorts III early on. And he definitely irked some gamers with difficult, padded practices late within a lost season.

Throw from the way he handled injuries to receiver Laurent Robinson (4 concussions just before happening IR) and Jones-Drew (admittedly need to have had foot surgical treatment sooner), and there have been motives to doubt no matter whether Mularkey was lower 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, finding to find out one another effectively adequate that Caldwell did not require a sit down with Mularkey just after he got the GM work Tuesday.

"It was hard," Caldwell explained. "I possess a ton of respect for Mike. ... It can be by no means effortless and that is likely the worst a part of the enterprise."

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