(01-13-2025, 12:01 PM)rfc17 Wrote:

(01-13-2025, 10:06 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: This is from Albert Breer this morning:

"• Jaguars owner Shad Khan has expressed some flexibility to coaching candidates on his decision to retain GM Trent Baalke. And my read on that is this: If a coach has the leverage to get what he wants from the team, then Khan could still pull the plug on Baalke."

This seems like a Ben Johnson or Aaron Glenn message. They may be the only two with the pull to get Baalke fired. Guess we wait to see what these guys are going to do.

If true it's another black eye for Shad. Why are we keeping Baalke at all if a new coach could tell Shad to get rid of him? You either believe Baalke is the right guy to the run the front office or you don't.

It's desperation.

If you interview 5, 10 guys and really like 2 or 3, but all of them have qualms about working with the rest of the leadership group, you bend your principles to fit theirs.

Shad needs a quality coaching hire way more than he needs to keep TB around. Sounds like he's not willing to settle for leftovers if that's the only hangup. It's a bad look, especially in the short term, but if you believe in the HC hire more than you do in the GM hire, ego isn't worth choosing a lesser candidate.

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