Interim coach Mel Tucker backs Jacksonville Jaguars to aim higher for 2012 – NFL News
The Jacksonville Jaguars interim coach Mel Tucker has backed his side to aim higher in the next season of the National Football League (NFL).
Apparently, Tucker who is with the side as a makeshift coach for last five games wants his side to forget the 2011, which proved to be one of their worst seasons in the league history.
"We're undefeated in 2012," was the only message that Tucker has passed onto his side with increasing prospects of his replacement.
Tucker’s tenure as a head coach at the Jaguars is almost finished as after the regular seasons the team do not have anymore games to play. Moreover, the team management has started interviewing potential candidates to hire them a head coach.
Having started the season with the score of 1-5 the jaguars were met with troubles throughout the season right until sacking of their coach Del Rio at end of November last year (2011).
The change happened after Rio’s nine years stay at the Jaguars and it was his failing to come up to the owner’s 2011 ambitions that cost the coach his job.
Jim Irsay had reportedly given Del Rio the task of taking the team to postseason round and as the Jaguars failed to make it to playoff the coach was relieved from his duties.
The Jaguars have finished the season with five wins and 11 losses. However, two of the five victories have come with the interim coach in charge of the affairs.
Rio’s firing has come along with the selling of the franchise by its outgoing owner Wayne Weaver to Pakistan-born American businessman Shahid Khan.
The new owner will take over the side from January 04, 2011 formally but has already set tone of the team for next season in mind starting with the priority task of hiring a new head coach on his hand.
With the outgoing year now almost a history for them the Jaguars are excited about their new prospects with a new owner and new head coach to be backing them.
"I'm excited to get a new direction," tight end Marcedes Lewis said. "We're ready to figure out what we're going to be doing and just get better."
However, many of the players are uncertain about their future as the team management has depth to go for more singings and reshuffles.
"We're going to have a lot of new people," Lewis said. "We don't know who's going to be back; we don't know what's going on. We're going to need camaraderie. Once we have that and everybody's in the same direction, we'll go anywhere we want to go."
It will be seen in coming months how well goes the rebuilding process for Jaguars and what line of approach they take in preparation for next season.
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