Quote:David Shaw

Tom Coughlin

Mike Smith


Those are the only current candidates we should be focusing on at the moment. The rest of those names people keep throwing around either have no head coaching experience or were terrible at it. Or, you'd have to give up a draft pick or two to trade for them.


Shaw has a proven record at Stanford. He's learned from some of the best in the business like Dennis Green, Bill Walsh & Jim Harbaugh. He took over the reigns and continued to succeed and he runs a pro style offense. People sleep on him a lot as a candidate at the next level but I don't. He's been a positional coach for years in the NFL prior to his time at Stanford and he's just been around some really, really good football teams.


Smith and Coughlin are the only other two candidates out there of recent memory that have had winning records at their last stints as head coaches. They have the history here already as well. So it just makes a lot of sense to bring one of them back here.

Shaw is definitely promising but I am under the impression that Caldwell is not going to risk hiring a first time NFL head coach knowing his job is also on the line here.


Gus did too much losing to possibly repeat that.


Ownership likely knows the Jaguars need to hire someone with experience and at least a small history of success.


Shaw might wind up being really good for another team but I just don't see them making that hire here.


Right now my top 3 likely guys are Coughlin, Payton, and McDaniels.


I'm actually OK with any of the 3 as well, with Payton being my top pick out of the 3.

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