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Doug Pederson Fired by Jaguars on Monday After 3 Seasons
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1/6/2025
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We've got some news out of Duval County. Doug Peterson, after three seasons in Jacksonville,
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has now been fired by the Jaguars. A team DRS in Jacksonville, as we'll share,
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that covered in an overtime game in Indianapolis in one of the two games this weekend of 16 that
00:18
had zero implications on the playoff chase or even the NFL draft order for that first overall pick.
00:25
A Jacksonville team that covered in eight of its last 11 games, a Jags team that felt like
00:32
way back in October, the writing was on the wall for Doug Peterson, that he might be let go
00:38
throughout the regular season. He was not. It got quiet in Jacksonville. Could he have done enough?
00:44
Could this team have bought in enough with a healthy Trevor Lawrence returning in 2025,
00:49
the franchise quarterback, for Doug Peterson to stick around? The answer is no. After three
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seasons in Duval County, Doug Peterson has been fired. Expectations in the NFL, Ben,
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they usually get you fired. When the expectations are high for you to compete for division
01:05
championships year after year, when you have your franchise guy, a quarterback who got paid a lot of
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money, it's up to you as the coach to hone those skills and make playoff run after playoff run
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after playoff run. We understand a couple of years ago, the Jacksonville Jaguars did go to the
01:18
playoffs. Hey, look, and you're looking at the expectations of that bad division. It wasn't
01:23
like you wound up and it was Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert. It's like, man, how can we
01:26
actually compete in this division at this point? It was Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville,
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Tennessee, who, quite frankly, the past couple of years hasn't been a great division where if
01:33
you basically can get the 10 wins, you can win that division, make the playoffs and get home
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games here. It happens in the NFL. You don't feel bad for the head coaches. They understand
01:41
it's a zero sum game. You are hired to be fired unless you were an absolutely dominant football
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team on the field. Doug Peterson does have pedigree. He won a world championship in
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Philadelphia and came there sort of the calming presence. I'll get this thing off the ground.
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It just never happened. And you can't blame injuries. They only look at the bottom line.
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You're four and 13. You can probably expect to be fired in the NFL.
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22 and 29 overall in his three seasons with the Jags, but DRS losing 18 of the last 23 games
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dating back to last year. And of course, a four and 13 mark here in 2024. And I'll say it entering
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this season in the AFC South, a lot of hope and optimism for a Texans team that added in the
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off season, Houston did end up winning the AFC South for a second straight season. But I thought
02:31
with a healthy Trevor Lawrence, this Jacksonville team could make a run to challenge in the AFC
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South win total of eight and a half second best price to win the divisional crown. They came up
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well, well short of all of that expectation. Doug Peterson, who has been an NFL head coach now
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for eight years, five seasons in Philadelphia, a Superbowl championship back during the 2017
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NFL campaign. And after three years in Jacksonville, he has been let go. There was a thought
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Donnie that maybe long time GM in Duval County, Trent bulky might be out the door with him. We are
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getting reports that Jacksonville intends to keep their front office largely intact.
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Yeah, it's it's what like, usually you get a mistake, right? Your GM, you come in, you hire
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a coach didn't work out or you get a quarterback, you drafted high didn't work out. Sometimes you're
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going to get that rebound. Okay, I'll give you another chance at it. Bucky's had multiple chances
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at this so far. Usually you like to see the complete break because you want the new general
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manager to come in and choose this head coach. But now you still have the old general manager
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choosing another head coach here, which hasn't worked out. So I disagree with that when I'm
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firing the coach and yet multiple chances at general manager, you're out the door as well.
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