Fred Taylor Thinks Jeff Fisher Should Be Jaguars Next Coach

It’s kind of like the anticipation you feel the days leading up to the draft. I feel anxious and scared. The Jags can’t afford to screw this up. You pick the wrong coach, you feel the effects to some degree for at least for 2-3 years after they’ve been fired.

is to bring in a young guy who has no coaching experience and the NFL level, but who is hungry to prove he can be a HC at this level.

He’s a very good coach.

Bud Adams made a huge mistake taking the side of that pansy VY. Viva el MUSTACHIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whoever the head coach is, should bring in Freddy as the running backs coach

Some of them have done a hell of a good job and they deserve to be resigned right?

But I’d like it

• Jacksonville — I look at the Jaguars and think they have to find an offensive-minded head coach this time, given the state of rookie quarterback’s Blaine Gabbert’s game, and the anemia that has inflicted that side of the ball in recent years. Still, one club executive in the NFL told me he believes interim head coach Mel Tucker, the team’s former defensive coordinator, might have a shot to hang on given the franchise being in transition to new ownership under Shahid Khan. I’m not sure. In a market where it’s always difficult to keep the tickets selling, Tucker’s hiring won’t move the needle much, if any.

I’m told by sources that Khan is quite aware of how much he doesn’t know regarding the way the NFL works, and is going to lean almost entirely on general manager Gene Smith and former Jags owner Wayne Weaver for guidance and counsel. That means it’s Smith’s call to make, and he’s known for his off-the-radar approach to making decisions (see the NFL draft).

Smith will do his due diligence, trying to find the next John Harbaugh, Mike Smith or Chuck Noll type — meaning the little-known assistant who was an excellent head coach selection in waiting. One candidate he would be wise to keep in mind is Packers quarterback coach Tom Clements, a longtime NFL assistant who has done strong work on Mike McCarthy’s staff in Green Bay since 2006. If Clements gets a job with a team in need of a quarterback, look for Packers backup Matt Flynn, a potential free agent in 2012, to perhaps follow him and serve as a potential starting option.

Another name I believe will surface in Jacksonville’s search is that of ex-Raiders head coach Tom Cable, who did superb work this year in resurrecting the Seattle running game as the Seahawks first-year assistant head coach/offensive line coach. Cable’s 8-8 in Oakland last year looks better all the time (he at least didn’t mortgage the franchise’s future in the draft) and his running game credentials would fit very nicely with a Jacksonville offense that is rightly built around its one true star, running back Maurice Jones-Drew.

Cable knows MJD and Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis from their days together at UCLA, where he was on staff at the time, and getting Lewis’ game back to its pre-contract extension 2010 levels is one of the primary concerns in 2012. In addition, Cable may be able to bring Dolphins quarterbacks coach Karl Dorrell with him to Jacksonville to work on Gabbert’s game. Dorrell did exemplary work with Matt Moore in Miami this season, helping the ex-Panthers starter revive his career. Dorrell was head coach at UCLA, and Cable served under him there. Both Jones-Drew and Lewis would likely applaud those moves.

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