A few days around Christmas, with the New York Jets having surprisingly beaten the Los Angeles Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars suddenly holding the top slot in the 2021 NFL draft, a candidate on the coaching circuit delivered a message about how head coach openings were shaping up across the league. He ran through details about opportunity and then halted on the Jaguars.
“I think that’s the best job,” he texted.
Asked if it was the combination of Jacksonville’s ample salary-cap space, along with the ability to draft Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence inside a boatload of 2021 draft picks (including two first- and two second-rounders), the coach replied with one emphatic word.