It's a rare NFL week when the Jacksonville Jaguars are the biggest newsmakers, but it sure was noisy around Duval County this week. First, the NFL Players Association announced that it had won an arbitration grievance against the Jaguars over the team's practice of fining players for skipping non-mandatory offseason time at the team facility. Two days later, the Jaguars fired Tom Coughlin, who as executive vice president of football operations for the past three seasons oversaw the strict program against which players and their union had been chafing.
Multiple sources close to the situation said there was a chance Coughlin, 73, was going to step away voluntarily at the end of the season in the interest of family time.