Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan laid out an expectation for his team a few days before the season started.
“Make no mistake: this is the best team assembled by the Jacksonville Jaguars ever,” Khan said.
Not too long ago, that best Jaguars team assembled would have seemingly been in great hands with Doug Pederson.
When the 2017 Philadelphia Eagles won the only Super Bowl in franchise history, certain truths seemed apparent when it came to Pederson. He was revolutionizing the game by being more aggressive on fourth down than any coach before him (that has held true). He was a quarterback whisperer who had Carson Wentz on an MVP track and then coached up Nick Foles to an epic Super Bowl MVP run. He was also a top five, at worst, coach in the NFL. He outcoached Bill Belichick in a Super Bowl. That happened. And he was going to be the Eagles’ coach for a long, long …