Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan spoke publicly on Monday as more negative attention falls onto his team, namely head coach Urban Meyer.
The Jaguars owner continued to preach patience and not make any “helter-skelter” decisions on emotion, but to “do the right thing” for the franchise.
Khan, at a pre-planned event with local beat writers on his superyacht, addressed concerns about Meyer, whom he has supported throughout this tumultuous season.
“I’m not impulsive. I learned that a long time ago with anything that’s this important you don’t want to be impulsive,” he said, via Mark Long of the Associated Press. “You want to look at exactly what I know first-hand, what people are telling me and then collect that and do the right thing.”
Khan pointed to previous coaches Gus Bradley and Doug Marrone, both of whom lasted four years at the helm before parting ways.
Of course, Marrone went 10-6 and reached the AFC Championship game in his first season as head coach, so it is not quite the same, but Khan used them as examples of his process.
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“I think we have a history of looking at the facts and doing the right thing,” he said. “Wins and losses, this is a little bit different. I’m going to reflect on all that and do what’s the right thing for the team and right thing for the city.”
Doing “the right thing” is certainly open for interpretation. While Khan preaches a message of patience, there were times he sounded like he could be open to a change, even saying that the roster is “far better than winning two games.”
“What concerns me is obviously wins and losses,” he said. “But, hey, we’re sitting here, we haven’t had a lot of wins. What’s different about this thing is you have losses and you have drama. In the past, it was like, you were, ‘It’s like the lowly Jaguars’ and everyone left you alone. Now, the scrutiny we have is really something different.
“So how much of that is we’re bring it upon ourselves or how much of that is deserved? In this case, Urban, he won wherever he was. This is something he’s never dealt with. And when you win in football, you create enemies. The only. Way you can really deal with that is you got to win again. I wish there was a panacea.”
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