As the 2016 regular season painfully crawled to an end, it became clear the Jaguars needed to make wholesale leadership changes.
Cue the entrance music for executive vice president of football operations Tom Coughlin.
While you can’t credit Coughlin for all of the success the team has had, he’s represented a complete 180 on two failed eras the Jaguars have finally recovered from.
The first was the Blaine Gabbert era, which could also be coined the Gene Smith era. The Jaguars moved up in the first round, essentially spending a first and a second round pick on Gabbert.