Jacksonville Jaguars add more assistants to coaching dept thru holdover, new signings – NFL News
The Jacksonville Jaguars reported on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, to have introduced more changes to their coaching department with an holdover and hiring of a couple of new assistant staff under reign of their head coach, Mike Mularkey.
According to the team management their offensive line assistant, Andy Heck, has become their latest holdover from the era of their former coach, Del Rio, who was sacked by team’s former owner, Wayne Weaver.
Heck is into the six year of his stay at the Jaguars and has been given another chance by the team’s new head coach. The team has already announced holdovers over half a dozen of coaching staff from the Rio’s tenure.
Mularkey, meanwhile, has also hired an assistant conditioning and strength coach, Josh Hingst. He has worked as a director of sports nutrition at Nebraska. Moreover, he was at the Atlanta Falcons for the season 2008 and earlier spent five years at the Florida.
Another new signee announced by the Jags is Charlie Skalaski. He will work as an assistant to head coach. The new assistant staff has spent nine seasons from 2003 to 2011 at Liberty in various coaching capacities.
These are the latest signees of the team since placement of their coach, Mularkey, as the head of their coaching department. They have already announced a number of co-ordinators at almost all positions.
Mularkey himself was taken on board by Jags new owner, Shahid Khan, from the offensive department of the Atlanta Falcons. The new head coach has been doing hiring firing since accepting of the full coaching charge from team’s interim coach, Mel Tucker, in
January this year (2012).
Tucker was at the Rio’s place to perform the head coaching role since November 29, 2011, the day the Jags former owner sacked the coach and announced selling of the franchise to its present owner, Shahid Khan. Mr Khan is an Illinois-based and Pakistan born
American businessman.
The new head coach’s hiring had come about after acceptance of the team’s ownership rights by Shahid Khan on January 04, 2012, the day the $770 deal was declared closed after meeting a number of regulatory requirements.
Mr Khan becomes the first and only American ethnic minorities’ group member to have purchased a football franchise around the American professional football league, National Football League (NFL).
The new owner himself is a great fan of the American football and has introduced many changes since his taking over the team.
He has repeatedly assured the Jags fans that he aimed to turn around the Jaguars to be consistent winners on the field and role model off the field.
The next NFL season (2012) will be first year for the new owner and coach in command and it is yet to be proven how much their rebuilding efforts payoff to them.
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