Jaguars hearth Paul Mularkey

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

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

So the Jaguars fired coach Mike Mularkey on Thursday soon after just 1 season, the worst in franchise background. The move came ten days right after Khan fired basic manager Gene Smith.

Khan also introduced new GM David Caldwell on Thursday, and by parting methods 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 under no circumstances been a a part of a losing crew."

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

Between candidates to the 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 while in the 1990s even though attending John Carroll University.

"I consider Greg is often a heck of the coach," Caldwell mentioned.

The Jaguars currently have requested permission through the Rams to interview Schottenheimer, in accordance with 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 frequent season. He looked like he might be a single and performed when Khan parted methods with Smith final week and gave Mularkey's assistants permission to look for other jobs. Despite the fact that Khan eventually employed Mularkey, Smith directed the coaching search final January that commenced and ended using the former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator.

"I felt like we wanted a fresh get started right here," Caldwell explained. "Coming in right here as being a first-time standard manager, I am trying to find a co-builder of our group. When I talked to Shad with regards to a culture transform along the football side, I felt like it had been a lot more of that. I felt like it had been an environment of adjust. I felt like that to complete that, you have to get a fresh start off across the board."

Mularkey's short tenure -- he did not even final a year -- was filled with faults. His most significant a single may perhaps are his loyalty to Smith, who assembled a roster that lacked talent on the two sides in the ball.

Mularkey likely caught with Smith's franchise quarterback, Blaine Gabbert, longer than he should really have. And also the coach's insistence the group was closer than outsiders imagined and his powerful stance that he had the roster to turn issues all around became comical since the losses mounted. The Jaguars lost eight video games by at the very least 16 factors, a staggering amount of lopsided losses inside a parity-filled league.

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

As a substitute, he hardly ever conceded that Jacksonville was a rebuilding venture that required time.

Now it's -- and Khan produced that clear Thursday.

"A year ago, when I came right here, the organizational judgment was we have been a fairly excellent crew, only a handful of gamers along with a draft far from seriously competing for any playoff spot," Khan explained. "As the year progressed, it had been fairly clear that was not the situation, and we would want a fresh start off as well as a rebuild in the ground up."

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

His return was shaky through the get started.

His most effective player, operating back Maurice Jones-Drew, skipped offseason routines at the same time as education camp as well as the preseason within a contract dispute. His to start with draft select, receiver Justin Blackmon, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI in June. And his group was riddled with injuries, like important ones to linebacker Daryl Smith and Jones-Drew.

Even points Mularkey had management in excess of went awry.

He needed to backtrack following saying Chad Henne would compete with Gabbert to the starting up work in March. He designed 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 hard, padded practices late inside a lost season.

Throw while in the way he handled injuries to receiver Laurent Robinson (4 concussions well before happening IR) and Jones-Drew (admittedly need to have had foot surgical treatment sooner), and there have been good reasons to doubt no matter whether Mularkey was lower out to get 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 learn one another nicely adequate that Caldwell did not will need a sit down with Mularkey immediately after he got the GM occupation Tuesday.

"It was difficult," Caldwell mentioned. "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 company."

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