Del Rio FIRED!

[wsansewjs]

Just CUT the Tebow crap right now. Please don't mention it ever again. Leave it in another thread. This thread is about Jack Del Rio and his pretty pink slip.

-Josh

[comncense]

Start your Head Coach wish list. I know everyone probably has Bill Cowher at the top of their lists. I wonder who's the hot offensive mind in the NFL these days though. I saw someone throw out the Saints' Offensive Coordinator's name this morning.

[Dapperdan]

Just CUT the Tebow crap right now. Please don't mention it ever again. Leave it in another thread. This thread is about Jack Del Rio and his pretty pink slip.

-Josh

Sir yes sir.  Even thpough both of us were being sarcastic, will do just as you ordered.

[ben says]

YAY!

[Tacachale]

FAN-tastic. This made my morning. Thanks, guys!

[Dapperdan]

I still don't understand why you don't just wait until the end of the season. Before this year or the bye week at the latest.

[wsansewjs]

I still don't understand why you don't just wait until the end of the season. Before this year or the bye week at the latest.

It maximizes the amount of time for the new coach to get acquainted with the team during the offseason.

-Josh

[duvaldude08]

What a way to start my day! This season is done anyways, so the timing really does not matter. I was really upset and embarassed after Sundays game. This is such a relief.

[Dapperdan]

But it can also create controversy. What if Mel Tucker has a winning record the rest of this season. Do you stay with him or go witha  proven coach? To me you would have the same amount of time with a new coach either way.

[Dapperdan]

Somewhere David Garrard is laughing his head off.

[BridgeTroll]

Somewhere David Garrard is laughing his head off.

Pretty sure he is rehabbing his back.  Garrard should have been cut in the off season...

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I still don't understand why you don't just wait until the end of the season. Before this year or the bye week at the latest.

I agree with you.  Unless you are considering promoting a coordinator, I don't see the point in getting rid of the head coach either, especially when none of your coordinators, assitant coaches, training staff, scouts or GM have a contract through the end of this year.

That being said, I'm glad that Tucker is getting the interim, but I'm not sure how I feel about him becoming the head coach - he doesn't have any head-coaching experience and he's been on the defensive side of the ball his entire career.  This is not a defensive game any longer, it's all about scoring points - so in that regard we need to bring in an offensive minded head coach.

Mel Tucker

Defensive Coordinator

Now in his 15th year of coaching and his seventh in the NFL, Mel Tucker joined the Jaguars coaching staff on January 24, 2009.  He is in his third season as defensive coordinator for the Jaguars.

Last year Tucker oversaw a defense that utilized eight different starting combinations in the first nine weeks. Just five players started all 16 games on defense, and nine different players made starts in the secondary over the course of the season. Despite the turnover, the defense improved in sack production, from 14 the year before to 26.

In 2009 Tucker’s defense saw 21 different players make starts including four rookies. Among those rookies were two 16-game starters who were drafted in the third round in cornerback Derek Cox and defensive tackle Terrance Knighton. The defensive unit had the same starting lineup in consecutive games only once in 2009.

Tucker coached for four seasons with the Cleveland Browns (2005-08), serving as defensive backs coach for three seasons before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2008.  Under Tucker’s guidance the Browns ranked fifth in the NFL from 2005-08 with 73 interceptions and allowed the fourth-fewest completions of 25-plus yards (78).

The 2008 Browns defense ranked 14th in NFL pass defense (204.6) and tied for third with 23 interceptions.  The defense finished with 31 takeaways, tied for the third-most in the NFL.   Tucker was responsible for the development of two young safeties in 2007 in Sean Jones and Brodney Pool, and two rookie cornerbacks who made an immediate impact.  2007 second-round pick Eric Wright tied for sixth in the NFL in 2008 with five interceptions while Jones had four interceptions.

In 2006 the Browns secondary was depleted by injuries, yet ranked 15th in the NFL in pass defense.  The unit lost starters Daylon McCutcheon in training camp and Gary Baxter in week seven, and Leigh Bodden missed seven games.  Jones and Daven Holly tied for the team lead with five interceptions apiece.  In his first season with the Browns, Tucker’s secondary unit ranked fourth in the NFL in pass defense.

Prior to joining the Browns, Tucker spent eight seasons coaching on the collegiate level.  He spent four seasons on Jim Tressel’s staff at Ohio State, coaching defensive backs and serving as co-defensive coordinator during the 2004 season.  Two of Tucker’s Ohio State players, strong safeties Michael Doss and Will Allen, earned first-team All-America honors, while cornerback Chris Gamble was a second-team All-America selection.

Tucker, 39, began his coaching career at Michigan State as a graduate assistant under Nick Saban from 1997-98.  He spent the 1999 season as defensive backs coach at Miami (Ohio) before serving in the same capacity at Louisiana State in 2000 under Saban.

Tucker was a standout basketball and football player at Cleveland Heights High School.  He was a four-year letterman as a defensive back at the University of Wisconsin (1992-95), graduating in 1995 with a degree in agricultural business management.   Tucker and his wife, Jo-Ellyn, have two sons, Joseph and Christian.

COACHING BACKGROUND

Michigan State 1997-98, Miami (Ohio) 1999, Louisiana State 2000, Ohio State 2001-04, Cleveland Browns 2005-08, Jacksonville Jaguars 2009-11.

[Overstreet]

Let's see..........he sold his house before the season. ........ he gets around $10million buy out on his contract....... I think Jack DelRio wasn't surprised and is laughing all the way to the bank.. ......

I guess that's why they want us all to buy a ticket. ........ to support the team, er...corporation. 

How come "occupy" doesn't move to the stadium?

[comncense]

Yeah I hope the Jaguars go out and grab an offensive minded Head Coach. I'd hope that we could retain Mel, but I know it would suck to get promoted and then bounced back to being a coordinator. I think our defense will be fine next season. Our offense on the other hand is atrocious. Not only do we need more talent on that side of the ball, we need a better coaching staff for the offense.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Well Good Luck Jack.