{"id":194234,"date":"2025-01-06T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=194234"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:22:58","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-fire-doug-pederson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/06\/jacksonville-jaguars-fire-doug-pederson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars Fire Super Bowl Champion Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three seasons with the team, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson following their Week 18 loss. Pederson, who won Super Bowls as both a head coach and NFL player, posted a losing record with the Jaguars but 42-37-1 record with the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jaguars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Jaguars<\/a> have made a major move, firing coach Doug Pederson at the end of a frustrating season, sources tell me and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TomPelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pederson acknowledged late this week it might be the end. Now, Jacksonville is open in what should be an attractive job. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/73rmz714WW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/73rmz714WW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1876257759869718684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jacksonville Jaguars Fire Doug Pederson After Three Years<\/h2>\n<p>The Doug Pederson Era in Jacksonville started on a high note, and it&#8217;s insane to see the team fire him after just two and a half seasons. Originally taking over for the disastrous Urban Meyer, Pederson inherited a roster led by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/10\/04\/the-struggles-of-trevor-lawrence-and-joe-burrow\/\" target=\"_self\">former first-overall pick Trevor Lawrence<\/a>. With competent coaching, Pederson guided the Jaguars to a playoff birth in 2022 and even earned a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401437998\/chargers-jaguars\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dramatic playoff victory<\/a> over the Los Angeles Chargers. While they ultimately fell to the eventual Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, the future seemed bright in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the wheels fell off the wagon in 2023. After starting the season with an 8-3 record, Doug Pederson&#8217;s team collapsed down the stretch, losing five of their last six and narrowly missing the playoffs to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/09\/20\/texans-qb-bears-caleb-williams\/\" target=\"_self\">rookie phenomenon C.J. Stroud<\/a> and the Houston Texans. With even worse results in 2024, the Jaguars had no choice but to fire head coach Doug Pederson midway through the season.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Pederson originally joined the NFL world as a player. Best known for his time backing up Brett Favre with the Green Bay Packers, Pederson finished his playing career completing 54.8% of his passes for 2,762 yards, 12 touchdowns, and 19 interceptions. He joined the coaching ranks in 2005 but first made a name for himself with the Kansas City Chiefs. Serving as Andy Reid&#8217;s offensive coordinator, the former quarterback established himself as one of the better offensive minds in the game and became Philadelphia&#8217;s head coach in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/04\/04\/carson-wentz-opens-up-on-fit-with-chiefs-after-signing-in-free-agency\/\" target=\"_self\">second-overall pick Carson Wentz<\/a>, Pederson had the quarterback looking like an MVP in 2017 before winning the Super Bowl with backup Nick Foles. Unfortunately, the success couldn&#8217;t last, and the Eagles fired him as Carson Wentz regressed. One year after the Eagles decided to fire him, Doug Pederson landed with the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Kirby Lee &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With another disappointing campaign in the works, the Jacksonville Jaguars decided to fire head coach Doug Pederson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":194235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,36],"tags":[265,7646,6249],"class_list":["post-194234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jaguars","category-nfl-news","tag-doug-pederson","tag-jaguars-featured","tag-trevor-lawrence"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208590,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234\/revisions\/208590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}