The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired Tom Coughlin.
Coughlin, who was the executive vice president of football operations, was canned late Wednesday night after multiple issues with the team. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
Owner Shad Khan said in a statement that he intended to do it at the end of the season, “reconsidered” the timeline in “recent days.”
You can read his full statement below.
— #DUUUVAL (@Jaguars) December 19, 2019
The move comes after it was revealed Coughlin fined Dante Fowler $700,000 for choosing to rehab in private, and fining Leonard Fournette $99,000 for sitting on the bench during a game he wasn’t playing in.
RB Leonard Fournette confirms he won a grievance against Jaguars to get a $99K fine rescinded. Tom Coughlin fined Fournette for his actions (sitting on the bench while inactive) during the 2018 season finale
— Mark Long (@APMarkLong) December 18, 2019
Wow. During the 2018 offseason, the Jaguars fined a player 25 times totaling over $700K for missing out on “mandatory” treatments that were not actually allowed to be mandatory. https://t.co/VURbeIjVVK
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) December 16, 2019
I think the writing was on the wall for this one. It just seemed like Coughlin’s time to leave the Jaguars had come. You can’t be fining players obscene amounts of money for no reason, and expect to keep your job.
That’s just not going to happen. Nobody is going to want to sign with the team if they think the man running the show is a loose cannon who doesn’t play by the rules of the CBA.
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Coughlin has had a hell of lot of success in the NFL, and has three Super Bowl rings. However, it just seemed like he couldn’t adapt to the modern era, and it cost him his job.
He’s 73. He should take his money and enjoy retirement. I just don’t see too many more NFL opportunities popping up at this point.
Grab a beer, find a beach, kick back and ride it out.
