ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars entered December among the many groups competing to be the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Six weeks later they have been out of the playoffs.
Head coach Doug Pederson mentioned he is by no means going to neglect the sting of that 1-5 stretch to finish the season. Not solely is it motivating him this offseason — and he is hoping the identical for his gamers — it additionally has been a significant component in how the Jaguars form their offseason.
“I do not know if I am going to ever recover from it,” he mentioned Monday on the NFL house owners conferences. “I feel for me it will be my motivation, my gas shifting ahead and I am not going to let it cloud the imaginative and prescient, however on the identical time it will be shut in my thoughts as I transfer ahead with the workforce this spring.”
The Jaguars received in Houston on Nov. 26 to enhance to 8-3. They have been tied with Miami and Kansas Metropolis for the second-best report within the AFC, a half-game behind Baltimore (9-3). With a sport towards a Joe Burrow-less Cincinnati and a fresh-off-the-couch Joe Flacco and Cleveland earlier than a house sport towards the Ravens, there was speak within the metropolis of the playoffs probably having to run by means of Jacksonville.
Nevertheless, the Jaguars received just one extra sport (beating Carolina at dwelling) and the season ended after a Week 18 loss in Tennessee in a sport the Jaguars wanted to win to make the postseason.
Pederson and normal supervisor Trent Baalke have approached the offseason with a plan to make sure that the best way these six weeks unfolded — accidents to key offensive gamers (together with quarterback Trevor Lawrence) and defensive miscommunications, blown assignments and breakdowns — would not occur once more.
In order that they prioritized including gamers with vital playoff expertise in addition to gamers with a monitor report of being good leaders, the latter being an vital addition to a locker room that will have gotten overconfident at instances in 2023 after their success in 2022.
Six of the eight free brokers the Jaguars signed got here from groups that made deep playoff runs over the previous 4 seasons, together with two that performed within the AFC title sport (cornerback Ronald Darby and receiver/returner Devin Duvernay) and one which performed within the NFC title sport and Tremendous Bowl final season (defensive lineman Arik Armstead). Three — heart Mitch Morse, receiver Gabe Davis and Armstead — are additionally former workforce captains and Armstead is a four-time Walter Payton Man of the 12 months nominee.
“I suppose now we’re going again to the hunter [in the AFC South] once more, proper?” Pederson mentioned. “However that is the tradition that I need to set up in Jacksonville and that is the explanation why you go get guys like Mitch Morse and Arik Armstead and the Darnell Savages and guys which have been to the postseason. These guys have been captains on their groups they usually’ve been to Tremendous Bowls, they have been to AFC Championship Video games, so these guys know tips on how to win and that is type of the inflow of expertise that we need to convey onto [our roster]. Guys who’ve been there, accomplished that.
“Once more, I’ve received to proceed to message the workforce in the best manner and there is received to be a type of confidence about you that whenever you take the sphere on sport day, there’s going to be video games you are going to get beat, I perceive that. However you have to have that confidence and that swagger that you’ll get the job accomplished on sport day. I feel bringing in a few of these free brokers we did this spring are going to assist that.”
Pederson admitted that his workforce could have gotten too comfy after its 8-3 begin and that harm the Jaguars in December and January. Linebacker Josh Allen’s remark after the Week 18 loss to the Titans — everybody was ready round for a spark to start out a surge and it by no means got here — appears to bear that out.
“I imagine you may positively get comfy,” Pederson mentioned. “You’ll be able to type of imagine and skim into the hype that is surrounding your soccer workforce. That is the one factor that may’t occur. You have to guard towards that clearly, and that is one thing that I feel our workforce goes to appreciate shifting ahead.
“It is only a matter of staying optimistic and staying forward-focused, ahead pondering. You hate to reside up to now however I feel you may bear in mind the previous. I feel it is gas shifting ahead, it is type of our motivation as we go.”