A year after the infamous 'Clown Game,' Trent Baalke is still here, but the Jaguars are now AFC South champions and set to host a playoff game for the first time in five years. And the hashtags calling for Baalke to be fired are long gone.
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke watches warm ups before an NFL football game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Jacksonville, Fla. The red-nosed protest was a thinly-veiled shot aimed at the team’s leadership, including Jaguars owner Shad Khan and general manager Trent Baalke.
Austin Murad, a longtime Jaguars fan who lives in Virginia, wasn’t in the stadium wearing a clown wig, but he shared their frustrations. “I was just bored on lunch, I said let me make this petition, went ahead made it, posted it on Twitter. I was tagging beat writers, annoying them, and just trying to get that out there, you know, just trying to gain any kind of traction for us to be heard,” he said.Jaguars Twitter takes shots at ‘clown’ owner Shad Khan after Trent Baalke report
Fast forward to Jan. 9, 2023, Baalke is still here, but the Jaguars are now AFC South champions and set to host a playoff game for the first time in five years. And the hashtags calling for Baalke to be fired are long gone.I've decided that the“Obviously, looking back, I’m still iffy, the verdict is not in on him quite yet, in my opinion, but it’s definitely not full-on fire Baalke train, in my opinion,” he said.
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