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NFL Notebook, Week 15: Lamar Jackson, rebuild candidates, mock draft and more

By Zach Cohen

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 01: Lamar Jackson #8 of the Baltimore Ravens is tackled as he runs with the ball during the first half against the San Francisco 49ers at M&T Bank Stadium on December 01, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 01: Lamar Jackson #8 of the Baltimore Ravens is tackled as he runs with the ball during the first half against the San Francisco 49ers at M&T Bank Stadium on December 01, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) /
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 27: Head coach Doug Marrone of the Jacksonville Jaguars speaks with an official during the game against the New York Jets at TIAA Bank Field on October 27, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 27: Head coach Doug Marrone of the Jacksonville Jaguars speaks with an official during the game against the New York Jets at TIAA Bank Field on October 27, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) /

Disorder in Duval

The criticisms don’t seem to end today, sorry. I wasn’t planning on chastising the Jaguars until reports came out that the NFLPA won a grievance against the organization. Take a look:

Basically, the Jaguars tried to control their players in a manner that not only violates the Collective Bargaining Agreement, but it violates their players’ rights as human beings. This is another gaffe in a long line of costly decision-making by the Jacksonville brass. Here are a few other ones that have stood out, albeit to different levels:

  • Promoting Doug Marrone to head coach in 2017
  • Keeping Marrone even after he lost his locker room
  • Any interaction Marrone had with Jalen Ramsey that caused Ramsey to want out
  • Trading Ramsey
  • League-leading 146 penalties

A simple Google search of “Jaguars incidents under Doug Marrone” will provide you with ample more support of the dysfunction in Jacksonville. In Marrone’s three-year tenure (four if you include the final two games of the 2016 season), a variety of Jaguars have voiced frustrations in some form.

Ramsey is the most obvious one, but don’t forget incidents involving Dante Fowler, Leonard Fournette and A.J. Bouye, to name a few. This is clearly a franchise that has discipline issues and a lack of culture that, as with any disorderly organization, evidently stems from the top.

We’ve seen it in Washington for years (that’s another messy situation) and we see it elsewhere right before owners clean house and start anew. That needs to happen here.

The entire coaching staff needs to go. General manager David Caldwell needs to go. Vice President of Football Operations (and the de facto head honcho) Tom Coughlin needs to go. There is too much dysfunction in this franchise to even entertain rebuilding it from within.

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