Jaguars Fire Coach Del Rio After Eight-Plus Seasons at LinesMaker

Jaguars Fire Coach Del Rio After Eight-Plus Seasons

The Jack­sonville Jaguars have fired long­time head coach Jack Del Rio, a team source told NFL Net­work insider Jason La Canfora.

Del Rio informed his coach­ing staff of the deci­sion on Tues­day, accord­ing to the source. He told them that Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver has ideas about how to pro­ceed, but Del Rio was uncer­tain who would replace him.

A source told NFL Network’s Albert Breer that defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Mel Tucker will take over as interim head coach. Tucker joined the Jaguars in 2009 fol­low­ing four sea­sons as an assis­tant with the Cleve­land Browns.

The Jaguars announced, via the team’s offi­cial Twit­ter account, that Weaver will hold a news con­fer­ence at noon ET. The Jags also said the team would not prac­tice Tuesday.

The sec­ond head coach in team his­tory, Del Rio’s job secu­rity had been ten­u­ous since Weaver said the coach needed to make the play­offs this year to secure a 10th sea­son in Jack­sonville. The Jaguars were essen­tially elim­i­nated with Sunday’s 20–13 loss to Houston.

Fol­low­ing the game Weaver was asked if a deci­sion had been made on Del Rio’s coach­ing future.

“Now is not the time,” Weaver said Sun­day. “That’s for another day.”

The Jaguars, who are strug­gling to sell tick­ets, host a Mon­day night game against San Diego.

Hired by the Jaguars in 2003, Del Rio fin­ishes his career in Jack­sonville with a 69–73 over­all record, includ­ing a 1–2 mark in the post­sea­son. His team hasn’t made the play­offs since 2007, when Jack­sonville fin­ished 11–5 and qual­i­fied as a wild card.

The Jaguars didn’t win the AFC South in any of his nine seasons.

Weaver con­sid­ered fir­ing Del Rio after last sea­son, but kept him partly because of the uncer­tainty sur­round­ing the NFL lock­out. Weaver refused to give con­tract exten­sions to any of Del Rio’s assis­tants, putting every­one on alert that this was a win-or-else season.

Del Rio refused to let offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Dirk Koet­ter and line­back­ers coach Mark Duffner inter­view for lat­eral posi­tions. He couldn’t stop quar­ter­backs coach Mike Shula, whose con­tract ended, and receivers coach Todd Monken, who returned to a col­lege job at Okla­homa State, from bolting.

Given the sit­u­a­tion, the pool of coaches want­ing to come to Jack­sonville was small, so Del Rio had few options while rebuild­ing his staff. Del Rio hinted this sea­son that his hands were tied in terms of what he could do to assem­ble the best staff.

Fans have been clam­or­ing for his depar­ture for years, with many call­ing for him to be fired fol­low­ing a 5–11 fin­ish in 2008. Instead, Weaver parted ways with per­son­nel chief James “Shack” Har­ris and selected Gene Smith the gen­eral manager.

Smith has rebuilt the ros­ter over the last three years. But the Jaguars have shown no progress under Del Rio’s leadership.

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