Khan also said creating a position similar to the one held by Tom Coughlin from 2017-2019 – executive vice president of football operations over the head coach and general manager – is possible if the Jaguars find “the right person.”
“Our job is to support the head coach,” Khan said. “What Trent is doing, what I’m doing, what the rest of the people are doing are really like service providers and serving the head coach to succeed.”
When discussing desired traits in a head coach, Khan discussed the importance of representing the team and city well. He also discussed extensively the predictability of the Jaguars’ offense and defense.
“We are the most predictable team on both sides of the ball,” Khan said. “Football, to win, deception is a big part of it. Unpredictability. Being unpredictable is, I think, is modern football and we have to be able to show that on the field.”
Khan, asked if he would speak to quarterback Trevor Lawrence about the coaching search, said “I talk to the players regularly. I don’t wanna identify Trevor or anyone else by name, but let’s be clear: This isn’t Aaron Rodgers 2.0. We’re going to do the right thing for the team.
“If Trevor doesn’t get better, if the other players don’t get better, we’re not going to win. The coaches coming in know who our foundational players are and they have to be committed to making them better.”
Baalke, the Jaguars’ general manager since 2021, spoke of the need to do things a “little different, a little better” moving forward. The Jaguars went 3-14 in 2021 with Urban Meyer as head coach, finishing 9-8 the next two seasons with an AFC South title in 2022, before losing the first four games of the 2024 season and eight of the last 10.
The Jaguars in 2024 lost 10 games by seven points or fewer, the most by an NFL team in the Super Bowl era, and Baalke and Khan on Monday both said improvement can come quickly.
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