Jaguars Coaching Search: What Role Will the Head Coach Fill?

Haven’t done a whole lot of research or anything, but it certainly feels that he wasn’t giving a strong effort until Del Rio was gone. That said, I think as fans, it’s really hard for us to know exactly who’s to blame. I was pro-Koetter, but it’s not going to break my heart to get some fresh ideas and leadership in.

Had a great gameplan against the steelers, I wouldn’t mind getting him either

is right. It really is too hard to say what Mel would do. All we could really do is hope that he’d decide to stick around. As I said in the article Alfie wrote about the Mel’s potential of staying as the permanent Head Coach, should he not be selected, I think he’s selfless enough to stick around as the DC. To me, there’s only two things that could keep him from staying on board and they are. 1) He’s too prideful to go back to his reduced role as DC. 2) The new HC wants his own DC.

I don’t think number 1 would be the case, because as I said, I don’t think he’s an overly proudful guy that would take offense to it too much. I think coach Tucker understands the business well enough to know that it’s just that, business. Then I don’t think number two would happen either because, why would a new HC want another DC after the defenses performance last season? If he still would want his own guy, that wouldn’t leave me with a good initial impression of our new HC. To me, that’s potentially saying that he cares more about his own agenda for the team than what’s in it’s best interest.

I haven’t seen anybody here not in favor of keeping the defensive side of the coaching staff in tact. Having a Top 10 defense even with having such an abysmal offense, to me, has earned them all the right to keep their job. Not to mention, that for the players sake, continuity on the coaching front would go a long way in them repeating a similar performance next year.

Lastly, I’ll say this. Should Mel not get the HC job, another thing that should go far in convincing him to stay is the same thing that should convince the next HC to keep him around; last years performance. It’s obvious that coach Tucker would like to be a Head Coach one day and another year or two of having Top 10 defenses should be more than enough to earn him that opportunity. With his familiarity of the players here, I don’t see how he could think he could go and build a more impressive resume with another team. While there is nothing to gurantee that the defense can repeat last years performance for another year or two, there’s nothing to say that they can’t considering we have young players that should get better and a group vets that are in their prime. The only real question mark is Rashean Mathis and his lost shouldn’t be that devestating to the unit as a whole.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays itself out.