The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pederson in what’s prone to be the primary of a number of “Black Monday” terminations throughout professional soccer.
Pederson and New England’s Jerod Mayo were the primary casualties of the NFL’s darkish annual ritual of discovering fall guys for a disappointing 2024 season, which got here to an finish on Sunday.
The Patriots jumped the gun, axing their rookie head coach Mayo on Sunday, moments after finishing their 4-13 marketing campaign.
Pederson ended his three-year Jacksonville tenure with a disastrous 4-13 season after going 9-8 in each 2022 and 2023.
It’s been a protracted fall from grace for Pederson, as soon as the wunderkind area basic who led the Philadelphia Eagles to the 2018 Super Bowl title.
He’ll always be credited for calling the “Philly Special,” a fourth-and-goal trick play that paid off in Philadelphia’s title recreation win over the New England Patriots.
Head teaching jobs with the Las Vegas Raiders and Dallas Cowboys might additionally open in a while Monday.
Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is 49-35 on the Dallas helm. But the franchise that calls itself “America’s Team” has gained only one playoff recreation in McCarthy’s 5 years in cost.
The Cowboys stay one of the vital talked-about and watched groups regardless of a 29-season-long, Super Bowl-winning drought. Dallas final won it all on Jan. 28, 1996, in the midst of Bill Clinton’s two-term White House keep.
The New York Jets, Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints have been already working with interim coaches and are anticipated to begin looking for everlasting replacements on Monday.
The New York Giants took themselves out of the Black Monday carousel, asserting that coach Brian Daboll would keep for his fourth season on the Big Blue helm — although he seems to already be on a brief leash for 2025.
The Giants went 3-14 this previous season and Daboll’s three-season report stands at 18-32-1 (.363). The group set a franchise report for losses this season and may have the third decide within the upcoming draft.
Daboll and basic supervisor Joe Schoen each survived what was a very painful season as their former star running back, Saquon Barkley, thrived with division-winning Philadelphia.
Giants followers have been continuously reminded of Barkley on account of cameras from HBO’s behind-the-scenes franchise “Hard Knocks” which captured co-owner John Mara explaining how a lot it’d damage dropping Barkley.
“I’ll have a tricky time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia, I’ll inform you that,” Mara said to Schoen, in a remarkably prophetic second of contract talks with Barkley. “As I’ve informed you, simply being round sufficient gamers, he’s the preferred participant we’ve got, by far.”
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