Baalke said he didn’t feel any sort of vindication or need for an ‘I told you so,’ from the turnaround.
At the end of the 2021 season, it was Baalke who was in the crosshairs of fans who were unhappy with yet another frustrating season. The remnants of the Urban Meyer debacle hung around the franchise and the product on the field wasn’t pretty. There was a fan-led movement and aIt’s a good thing that Khan didn’t listen.
A year later, Baalke and Doug Pederson have remade the Jaguars into one of the league’s fastest risers. , and Baalke, through the last two drafts and a wildly successful free agent haul, has assembled an excellent roster. Jacksonville, for the first time since 2017, is coming off a playoff season and is ascending., when fans sporting clown noses dotted the crowd at TIAA Bank Field for the regular season finale against the Colts. But
“I don’t look at it like that. We’re paid to do a job, and our job is to put the best product we can on the field,” Baalke said on Tuesday. “I’ve never listened to the noise. The noise doesn’t determine the decisions that we’re going to make as an organization. I think the best thing you can do when there’s a lot of noise is put earplugs in and go about your job, and that’s what we tried to do.”
Public vindication or not, Baalke and Pederson have turned the fortunes of the Jaguars around quickly. No longer a guaranteed W on the schedule, Jacksonville’s focus is now from a position as a favorite. After years of chasing the Titans and Colts for AFC South accolades, the Jaguars will enter 2023 as the overwhelming frontrunner in the division.
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