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Jack del Rio fired by Jaguars

Discussion in 'Other NFL' started by Muck, Nov 29, 2011.

  1. Muck

    Muck Throwback Uniform Crusader Retired Administrator

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    per Mort on Twitter.

    Who'd have thought he'd be the first to go? A few weeks ago, it was Tony Toni Tone!
     
  2. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Makes sense. Surprised he survived as long as he did.
     
  3. byroan

    byroan Giggity Staff Member Administrator Luxury Box

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    Norv Turner is looking like he might be next.
     
  4. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    This is weird timing by the Jags. Del Rio definitely deserved to be fired, but with a Rookie QB starting how many games did they expect to win? That franchise is more of a mess than this one.
     
  5. gunsmithx

    gunsmithx Active Member

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    As many as the bengals?
     
  6. alen1

    alen1 New Member

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    Not to mention his GM didn't exactly give him an overly talented team to work with.
     
  7. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Except that Dalton started out of camp and Gabbert had to come in Week 3 (?). You're also talking about a Bengals team that made the playoffs in 2009. JAX hasn't been there since 2007. Again, Del Rio deserved to be fired, but I think they should've done it at the beginning of the season or after the season.
     
  8. gunsmithx

    gunsmithx Active Member

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    I'm not saying they should expect it, just that they may look and see that happening and wonder why not us.

    That said news now says team is also being sold and GM extended 3 years. odd move when selling team though.
     
  9. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Sounds like an Ireland/Ross situation.
     
  10. Jaydog57

    Jaydog57 Canes/Fins/Magic fan

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    Fired the coach and barring a unanimous vote by NFL owners, has sold the team in the same day. Just seems like things you do the week after the season's over and you miss the playoffs again.
     
  11. alen1

    alen1 New Member

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    1995 (Cleveland Browns) season all over again, perhaps?
     
  12. padre31

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    TBH, I thought Del Rio did a decent job in JVille, tossing Gabbert out there, after cutting Garrard and going into 2011 with Luke Mccown at Qb was not a recipe for success.
     
  13. Frumundah Finnatic

    Frumundah Finnatic U Mad Miami?

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    I like how the new owner mentioned the children as Jags fans.
    Because we all know adult Jags fans are Dolphin Ditchers.
    ****'em. Every. Last. One.
     
  14. Laces Out

    Laces Out Well-Known Member

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    With those two, may as well keep Sparano around :wink2:
     
  15. Dolfan4Life

    Dolfan4Life BostonStrong

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    Turner could be a good option for OC as long as he doesn't suck as much as he does as HC but i think there is no reason to get rid of Mike Nolan! I wouldn't mind Del Rio in our coaching staff at all, maybe as assistant DC or assistant LB coach or something like that!
     
  16. The_Dark_Knight

    The_Dark_Knight Defender of the Truth

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    Jacksonville has finished so poorly over the last decade, having a top 10 draft pick 7 of the last 10 years, I'm surprised it's taken this long for Del Rio to be fired. He showed signs of promise, building an offense with a line powerful enough to go north in the winter months and pound out a devestating running attack with Fred Taylor and MJD, but that promise quickly faded. The quarterback controversy, seeming like a genius when he benched Brunnell in favor of Leftwich....then eventually benching Leftwich in favor of Garrard...to naming Garrard as starter a few days before the season only to cut him...Jacksonville has imploded since that one season of promise and has never been able to achieve the success they had hoped for.

    Being from Jacksonville originally, I have a soft spot in my heart for the Jaguars and have always wanted them to do well, but Wayne Weaver has been like the Stephen Ross of Jacksonville. His greatest success was hiring Tom Coughlin as head coach...and his greatest failure was firing Coughlin.

    I sincerely hope the Jaguars do not move to Los Angeles, seeing how Jacksonville had tried for years to get the NFL to grant them a team, from the WFL's Jacksonville Firebirds, to the USFL's Jacksonville Bulls...to having a pep rallly in the Gator Bowl in 1983 to lure the Colts...to finally receive a team...and then lose it, especially to a city that had two NFL franchises and lost them both, would be a disgrace.
     

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