"Determined to bring a new energy and direction to the franchise, Jaguars owner Shahid Khan dismissed Paul Vance, the team's general counsel and senior vice president of football operations, on Thursday.

Vance had been with the organization since its inception, having worked closely with former Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver.

"I had said to Shad all through the transaction that it was going to be his team," Vance said in a phone conversation. "I think when someone buys something like a team and stuff like that it's his decision what he wants to do. …. I was there 21 years ago in the expansion battle, and went all the way through the other end of it being the sale and stuff like that. At some point there also becomes a right time.""