One Former Jaguar Deserves Another Shot

We're coming up connected nan one-year day of erstwhile nan Jacksonville Jaguars fired erstwhile wide head Trent Baalke. He exited nan franchise pinch a 25-43 grounds passim his tenure, pinch conscionable 1 postseason travel to show for his work. One play later, and nan Jaguars person zero regrets astir cutting bait pinch Baalke.

It wasn't conscionable his existent moves arsenic wide head that led to his dismissal. Reportedly, respective of nan candidates that Jacksonville interviewed for caput coach past offseason were unwilling to activity pinch Baalke, including Liam Coen. In fact, Coen only took nan occupation because nan Jaguars fired their then-general manager, allowing Coen to thief bring successful James Gladstone instead.

Maybe Trent Baalke has learned from his mistakes

In nan first twelvemonth nether their caller regime, nan Jacksonville Jaguars won 13 games, tying their second-best people successful franchise history, reclaimed nan AFC South crown, and hosted a playoff bout pinch nan Buffalo Bills. There's really nary logic for nan squad to person immoderate remorse complete parting ways pinch Trent Baalke.

However, a person introspection will show that galore of nan cardinal pieces responsible for Jacksonville's tally this past play were Baalke products. 12 different starters for nan 2025 Jaguars were his draught picks, including respective breakout players for illustration Devin Lloyd, Montaric Brown, Brenton Strange, and Cam Little. Of course, Baalke had plentifulness of misses, too, galore of which caller General Manager James Gladstone quickly made judge to cleanse from nan roster.

But nan NFL Draft is simply a crapshoot, and successful retrospect, Baalke has a beautiful decent grounds successful that arena of wide management. However, it's not nan only portion of a GM's job, and 1 could opportunity that building relationships is perchance moreover much important than identifying talent. Due to his sour reputation, Baalke isn't moreover successful nan NFL correct now, contempt his successful grounds successful nan draft.

With really important uncovering impactful players connected rookie-scale deals is to roster-building, though, it wouldn't beryllium shocking to spot him get different chance someday, astatine slightest successful a smaller capacity arsenic a scout aliases thing on those lines.

That's going to beryllium contingent connected whether he tin hole his fatal flaw: being specified a pill of a workfellow that respective group virtually turned down their dream jobs to debar moving pinch him. Purely from a capacity perspective, Baalke deserves different changeable — conscionable not pinch nan Jacksonville Jaguars.

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