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Shad Khan is generally careful not to be too harsh about the term of former general manager Gene Smith. When Khan bought the team late in the 2011 season from Wayne Weaver, he inherited a GM who had just gotten his contract extended, and he stuck ...

The tendency in the NFL with hires is to get guys who are largely the opposite of the people they are replacing. Departed Jaguars general manager Gene Smith and coach Mike Mularkey were low-key guys. Replacements David Caldwell and Gus Bradley ...

The first three names to emerge as candidates to replace Mike Mularkey as head coach in Jacksonville are St. Louis offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, San Francisco offensive coordinator Greg Roman and Atlanta special-teams coach Keith Armstr...

For a couple of dudes who follow the blog, Jack Del Rio looks like the good old days for the Jaguars. Attendance at the Jaguars-Titans game was a popular theme as you sent in your pics for our weekly slideshow. I went into the crowd at Lucas Oil Stad...

For Blaine Gabbert to make big strides in his second year, he needed three ingredients: Better coaching. Better protection. Better receiver play. I think he's getting the coaching. The protection is OK, because with offensive line injuries...

The Jaguars starting safety tandem of Dwight Lowery and Dawan Landry isn't the league's best. But considering how awful the team was at the position just two years ago, I think they've done a quality job of reconstruction with two quality guys. Th...

Three thoughts as training camps open around the NFL: One thing I'm certain of: Mike Mularkey and his staff will provide more consistent leadership than Jack Del Rio and his staff did -- especially at the end. Del Rio liked to ride waves, but Mula...

Jerry Sullivan spent the position period of the Jaguars' offseason practices running slow-motion routes. Put your foot in the ground, like this. Drop your hips, like this. Don't round the corner, like this. Although free-agent addition Laurent Rob...

Once he gained a certain level of coaching security, tied mostly to a big contract, Jack Del Rio rarely missed a chance to illustrate how the Jaguars needed an indoor practice facility. He didn't get what he wanted. But his successor Mike Mularkey...

Yes, the start of training camps is two months away, but it's never too early to consider the coming season. A look at the best-case and worst-case scenarios for the Jaguars in 2012. Dream scenario (10-6): Mike Mularkey's offensive scheme does for...

Despite talk of grabbing the best player available, it's funny how often needs and picks seem to line up. Of 31 picks, I count four that don't technically qualify as addressing needs: Jaguars fifth-round linebacker Brandon Marshall, Titans fifth-r...

Darrick Seymore from Jacksonville, Fla., writes: The way our new owner, Mr. Khan, rolled into Jacksonville, I was expecting some really flashing things to be happening by now. Not sure if this is the quiet before the storm or something else. What's y...

Reading the coverage ... Houston Texans Stephanie Stradley of the Houston Chronicle blogs talked Texans' salary cap with Andrew Brandt. Alan Burge of the Houston Examiner starts to ponder the Texans draft and assess needs. Battle Red Blog l...

Reading the coverage ... Houston Texans The Texans-coached AFC squad won the Pro Bowl, writes Nick Scurfield of the team's website. While the votes were really spread out, more players at the Senior Bowl said they'd like to play for the Texa...

Regrets? Everybody's got a few... We asked for some feedback on one thing you'd like to go back and change for each team in the AFC South. For the Jaguars, I align with the most popular response you offered. Here's my biggest second-guess about t...

Teams replacing head coaches often look for the opposite of the last guy. It can be the case for a strong general manager or personnel executive too. So I think the guy Shahid Khan hires as the Jacksonville Jaguars' new head coach and the guy J...