Quote:Different owner, GM, and Coach.

 

 

Different GM and Coach. Not necessarily owner. Khan was brought in during Koetter's "sulking around the stadium" year. In fact, looking back on that situation in hindsight, Khan's buying of the team is probably the reason for Koetter's sulking and mailing it in in 2011. All the coaches were on one year contracts and Koetter's attempts to get out and secure a longer term contract by interviewing for a lateral position with the Rams (I think. Might have been the Broncos. Pretty sure it was the Rams.) was blocked by the team. Weaver sold the team to Khan during that 2011 season and reports were that the two were working out a deal for a couple of months. JDR was fired either the same day or next day after the sale was announced, if I remember correctly. Put 2 and 2 together, and it would seem that all the coaches were retained from 2010 - 2011 on those one year contracts specifically so that Wayne could sell the team to Khan, then let Khan clear house, and not need to worry about paying 2 different coaching staffs (all of JDR's assistants contracts were up at the end of the year so Khan had a completely blank slate to hire whoever he wanted in his first season.).

 

I'm sure Khan is aware of how much effort Koetter didn't put in in 2011. On the off chance he doesn't, I'm sure other members of the organization will remind him. It was pretty common knowledge that Koetter mailed that season in. Even the radio guys were talking about how happy Koetter was for the season to end so he could get out of Jacksonville. I don't think Khan would be thrilled with bringing Koetter back in, and I'm not sure Koetter would be thrilled with coming back to the Jags organization after he felt so wronged by it.

 

Maybe I'm totally wrong and Koetter does come back, but, I think the split was too rough, especially for only 3 years to have passed.

 

 

Quote:The last time a Falcons offensive coordinator had a performance that bad to end the season, Shad Khan hired him as head coach

 

MM didn't end a prior tenure with the Jags sulking around after "being wronged" by the organization and mailing his last season with the team in before going to the Falcons though. 

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