"When you scan the list of candidates the Jaguars have been known to contact about their head coaching vacancy, nobody leaps off the page from a resume standpoint.

There's a heavy dose of NFL offensive coordinators (Mike Mularkey, Brian Schottenheimer, Mike McCoy and Rob Chudzinski), Jaguars interim coach/defensive coordinator Mel Tucker and perhaps some unknown, higher-profile candidates that general manager Gene Smith and owner Shahid Khan have managed to keep secret.

If you throw in Cincinnati Bengals OC Jay Gruden and Dallas Cowboys special-teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis as possibilities, there's still not much from an accomplishment standpoint to distinguish one from the others. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that Smith and Khan have to work harder to identify the right coach to turn around this stagnant franchise.

Let's be honest: There are almost no available home-run candidates. Tony Dungy, the all-time NFL leader among 10-year coaches in percentage of playoff appearances (11 in 13 years, .846), is the only perfect hire based on the three-pronged criteria (a winner, someone to work in concert with management and someone who engages the community) laid out by Khan. Unfortunately, Dungy might not want back on the sideline until his son is done playing football at Oregon."