No disrespect at all toward Brian Daboll, but watching the excuseapalooza for why Doug Pederson shouldn't be Coach of the Year is hilarious.
"The Giants were a worse team than the Jaguars and Brian Daboll turned it around."
The Jaguars weren't just a bad team, they were historically bad. They had the second longest losing streak in NFL history, and had a total of four wins over the past two seasons.
"The Jaguars had Trevor Lawrence who was always going to be a great quarterback."
Which is why, midway through the season, much of the NFL media and experts were calling him the biggest draft bust in history and fans (myself included
, I'll straight up eat this crow) were calling for him to be shipped off for a couple third rounders.
"The Jaguars are objectively more talented with all the free agency signings."
The free agency signings that caused literally THE ENTIRE LEAGUE to lose their collective shiit? The Christian Kirk contract that "broke the NFL" because every GM, every other WR in the NFL, and every "expert" felt he was a terrible wide receiver? The Zay Jones and Evan Engram singings that were also criticized with an equal amount of harshness. The draft choices that many experts criticized?
"Any head coach would've been an improvement over Urban Meyer."
The Jaguars went 1-15 the year prior to that with Doug Marrone as head coach.
"The Jaguars were always favored to win the division. The Giants weren't."
The Jaguars were supposed to go 6-11 and finish third to Indianapolis and Tennessee, who were supposed to win 11+ games each. The Giants were expected to rake in at least seven wins.
"The Giants were the laughingstock of the NFL for the past couple seasons."
Yeah, no. The Jaguars were such a laughingstock that fans went to the games dressed as clowns to protest Shad Khan's ownership and Trent Baalke's management. The Urban Meyer circus was a fiasco of comedic proportions. Every week, it was a new dumbass headline that made the headlines from the Donald Trump presidency look sane and rational.
Again, no disrespect to Brian Daboll and what he's done with the Giants and Daniel Jones. But, we're literally rewriting multiple years of history here to justify NOT giving Coach of the Year to Doug Pederson.