NFL Rumors: Jaguars Insiders Called Team 'Undisciplined and Not Mentally Tough'

People inside the Jacksonville Jaguars organization reportedly felt the team's struggles during the 2024 season were at least in part due to the team's mentality.

According to ESPN's Michael DiRocco, "multiple sources inside the organization called the Jaguars undisciplined and not mentally tough."

The Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson after finishing the season with a 4-13 record, a major step back after consecutive 9-8 campaigns and a playoff berth in 2022.

Of those four wins, only two were earned in one-score decisions. Of the Jaguars' 13 losses, ten were decided by seven points or fewer.

Several of those defeats were determined in the last few minutes of games. The Jags fell in Week 4 after allowing the Houston Texans to score a touchdown on Sept. 29 with 18 seconds left on the clock.

Another missed opportunity came late in Week 9, when quarterback Trevor Lawrence turned a potential game-winning touchdown pass into an end-zone interception against the Philadelphia Eagles on Nov. 3.

If half of those close decisions had gone the other way, the Jaguars could have been eyeing a return to the playoffs.

Instead, the team's offense and defense were unable to step up in multiple opportunities to close out games, leaving the Jags well out of the postseason and preparing for an offseason marked by leadership turnover.

After announcing Pederson's firing earlier this month, team owner Shahid Khan said he believed the Jaguars were the NFL's "most predictable team on both sides of the ball."

Khan will look to improve his team's unpredictability— and potentially their discipline and mental toughness as well— as the franchise searches for its next head coach. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported before the Detroit Lions' elimination from the Divisional round that Lions coordinators Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson are "both considered to be very high up as far as where the Jaguars go and where they like."