Doug Pederson believes he nonetheless has the backing of Jacksonville Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan regardless of the group’s heavy defeat to the Chicago Bears in London on Sunday.
The Jags slumped to 1-5 on the yr as they had been marred by pricey penalties and errors whereas surrendering 4 landing passes to the distinctive Caleb Williams in a 35-16 defeat to the Chicago Bears.
Pederson was requested throughout his press convention whether or not he felt he nonetheless had the backing of proprietor Khan, who had underlined his assist for his head coach and normal supervisor Trent Baalke throughout an interview with the Florida Instances-Union on Saturday.
“I do. I was just with him, and I do,” he advised reporters.
Jacksonville will now keep within the UK as they put together to tackle the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium subsequent Sunday, Pederson admitting it’s probably a must-win matchup.
“I think so,” mentioned Pederson. “I’d say every part right here on out, fairly frankly. If we wish to get again to taking part in the kind of soccer we all know we will play, you are going to should win numerous video games shifting ahead. I’d say that, yeah, these video games shifting ahead are simply that.
“I really feel for the gamers and the coaches. We work extraordinarily too onerous to be on this place. I really feel like the fellows, they do not stop. They preserve combating.
“We have to figure out how to just get out of our way and just play football. I say that, and it sounds easy, but it’s tough. It’s a tough game to play. We didn’t expect to be here in this spot, and, hey, now we have to find a way to get out of it.”
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Cole Kmet does all of it on this play, scoring the landing earlier than standing in as back-up lengthy snapper for the Chicago Bears.
Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence additionally insisted the locker room stays behind head coach Pederson amid the group’s disappointing begin to the marketing campaign, which leaves on the backside of the AFC South.
“Yeah, that’s our head coach, and we’re a team,” he mentioned. “This is tough. Losing is hard. It’s hard. So it has nothing to do with that relationship, how we feel about Coach [Pederson]. We’re a group. We’re staying together. We know brighter days are ahead.
“We simply should preserve working, and we’ve to maintain placing our greatest foot ahead. You realize, we simply have to stay collectively as a group. We’ve got to play extra complementary. We’re not taking part in good group soccer proper now. So regardless of the reply to that’s we’ve to seek out it fast. Yeah, no considered that on my thoughts.”
The Jaguars gave up eight penalties for 43 yards on the day, notably together with three throughout a second-half drive that will finish in Keenan Allen’s three-yard landing catch to make it 28-10 simply moments after Gabe Davis’ rating had given Jacksonville hope.
Inside that had been an unforgivable penalty for having too many males on the sector on third-and-long, considerably typifying the Jaguars’ season.
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Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams throws a superb go into Keenan Allen for the second landing of his day.
“Those are penalties that really hurt,” mentioned Pederson. “Taking nothing away from the players. They’re playing hard. They’re putting everything out on the field.
“We preserve speaking. We’ll simply preserve displaying them. We had the 12 males on the sector, and there was a substitution change. I put that one us as coaches. That is on us.
“So, everybody has a piece of this. It’s not just coaching, not just players. It’s all of us, and that’s where it has to start.”
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Ange Postecoglou having fun with the ambiance at Tottenham Stadium forward of the NFL London sport between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears.
Pederson acknowledged the necessity for his group to deal with in-game adversity higher, with early errors snowballing into one other error-ridden sport that would go away the Jaguars taking part in catch-up.
“Those are things that we have,” he mentioned. “That’s kind of the obvious, right? Right now, those are things that are plaguing us. It’s the mistakes and then being able to overcome the mistake. Those are things that we have to obviously take a look at and correct.”
Regardless of his facet’s begin, Lawrence reiterated the idea the Jaguars can nonetheless flip their marketing campaign round.
“We got 11 more games, so there’s definitely a way back,” he mentioned. “We’ve got to – pumping us up isn’t going to do anything up here, so we have to take care of business on our end. But, yeah, it’s a long season, and we have a lot of football left.”
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