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We as Jag fans put us where we are for the last 12 years. The year before Weaver fired Coughlin I knew Weaver would feel he had no choice but to let Coughlin go. The fans were calling for it and Weaver was concerned about ticket sales as attendance was dropping I also knew it was going to be a mistake but obliously did not know how good of a coach he was until time has played out. As fans go Jags are a lot like other teams but being novice NFL fans at the time had no understanding what Coughlin had accomplished. Jags went .500 4-4 in playoffs and to 2 AFC championships. In total now he is .632 12-7 in playoffs and has won 2 SB. I remember for a year and a half before Coughlin was fired thinking the fans are going to regret what was going to happen. I don't know if Weaver proposed taking General Manager duties away from Coughlin or if Coughlin would have even accepted that but obviously Coughlin gets more out of his line up than most other NFL coaches. Jags would have gone through difficulties for sure because of the salary cap hell Jags were in which Coughlin was individuually responsible for. Jags were very fortunate for the 2002 expansion draft to shorten what would have been a longer and more serious salary cap problem. Going back to why I believe Jag fans are responsible is because if Coughlin had continued to be coach we most certainly would have been more competitive and won more games. I am not saying iwe would have won a SB but we certainly would have performed better than we have. I am thankful for Weaver bringing NFL to Jax but had Kahn  been owner there would not have been the financial pressure to cut Coughlin as soon as Jags attendance plummeted in 2002 Coughlin last year. Weaver has even stated his biggest regret(mistake) was letting Coughlin go.

 

 

Considering 1 Most wins 2 least losses and 3 championships

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Quote:We as Jag fans put us where we are for the last 12 years

 

lol

I knew I shouldn't have fired him!

Words...lots and lots of words. I'm despondent.

The OP is incredibly flawed. For you see, Coughlin has nothing to do with the Jags and never has. Since in today's world nothing before 2010 matters, the Jags are terrible and have always been terrible. They've never been to the playoffs much less won any games there. Coughlin is the coach of the Giants and always has been. The only other coach of this franchise was Mike Mularkey and he got fired after one season.


The Jags are a joke and always have been. They wouldn't even know what it's like to field a playoff team. The Jags are terrible. Always have been, always will be.

How could I be so dumb and let Tom go... 

 

Fire me guys, I don't deserve the team anymore.

Good for him, glad he is able to do well for him and his team.

The real issue with Coughlin wasn't his coaching, it was ability to GM.

 

He wasn't a very good drafter outside the first rd and he destroyed our salary cap by relying so much on FA to build the team.

 

I don't think asking him to step down from being the GM was a realistic option. I think demoting him wouldn't have gone over very well. Typically people who are at the pentacle of running an organization have too much pride to accept a lesser role within that same organization. If they are going to accept a lesser role, they are going to accept it somewhere else.

While I understand why Tom Coughlin was fired after the 2002 season,   I thought one of his best coaching jobs of his HC career was getting 6 win out of the Jaguars in 2002.  Even JDR mentioned that was impressive,  after taking over as Jags HC.