Report: Mike Vrabel, Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn on Jaguars HC Interview 'Wish List'

The Jacksonville Jaguars are expected to have former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn and Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson on their "interview wish list" amid their coaching search, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson on Monday after finishing 4-13 for the 2024 NFL season.

The Jaguars later announced they had requested to interview eight candidates, including both Lions coordinators:

It will be interesting to see what the market says about Jacksonville because, on paper, this is far from the most attractive vacancy in the league. NFL.com's Judy Battista ranked the Jags fourth among the five teams looking for a new head coach.

The ingredients are all there to make for a challenging situation.

Four years into his career, we're still waiting for quarterback Trevor Lawrence to turn the corner. He threw for 2,045 yards, 11 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 10 starts, missing seven games due to a shoulder injury and a concussion.

Especially when factoring in his five-year, $275 million extension, the 25-year-old may not be the kind of draw to prospective coaches that he was when Doug Pederson came aboard in 2022.

The Jaguars are also retaining general manager Trent Baalke, who bears more responsibility for the sorry state of the franchise than Pederson did.

The disastrous Urban Meyer experiment was enough on its own to warrant Baalke's ouster. Instead, he got to hire the next head coach, one who lasted three seasons, and assembled a roster with some glaring flaws.

If you're a candidate to become Jacksonville's next head coach, working alongside Baalke isn't exactly enticing.

And overseeing everything is team owner Shad Khan, who remains a common denominator during the organization's futility that spans multiple coaching and front office regimes.

Job scarcity always works in a team's favor during a hiring cycle. There are 32 opportunities to coach an NFL team, and only a small handful of those become available in a given offseason.

Somebody is going to step up to the plate in Jacksonville. It just might not be who many would consider to be a highly valued target.