| 2000 Jacksonville Jaguars season | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Tom Coughlin |
| Home field | Alltel Stadium |
| Results | |
| Record | 7–9 |
| Division place | 4th AFC Central |
| Playoff finish | Did not qualify |
| Pro Bowlers | WR Jimmy Smith[1] |
| Uniform | |
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The 2000 season was the Jacksonville Jaguars' 6th in the National Football League and their sixth under head coach Tom Coughlin.
The Jaguars in 1999 had obtained an NFL-best record of 14–2 and thrashed the Miami Dolphins in their divisional-round game. However, they were helped to this by an extremely easy regular-season schedule.[2] In 2000, the Jaguars were severely hit by the loss of safety Carnell Lake for the entire season to foot surgery,[3] and by an ultimately career-ending knee injury to right tackle Leon Searcy.[4] Further offensive line injuries, notably to left tackle Zach Wiegert and center John Wade,[5] crippled the Jaguars all season, with the result that after a fair start the Jaguars fell in Week 4 to five consecutive losses and were out of the running for a postseason berth by December, and thus knocking them out of the playoffs for the first time since 1995 when the franchise was first established.[6] Ultimately the team's tally of wins was halved from 1999. At the close of the season, the Jaguars also had problems with being $31 million over the salary cap.[7]
- ^ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 362
- ^ Pro Football Reference; 1999 Jacksonville Jaguars
- ^ ‘Injury Woes Build for Jacksonville Jaguars: Free Safety Carnell Lake Made the Decision Thursday to Undergo Foot Surgery’; Orlando Sentinel; August 18, 2000; p. C1
- ^ ‘No Block Party for Jags: Tackle Leon Searcy Tore a Tendon Above His Right Knee at Practice, Putting The Jaguars’ Star’s Season in Jeopardy and the Offensive Line into Crisis’; Orlando Sentinel; July 25, 2000, p. C1
- ^ ‘Wiegert Latest to Go Down for Jaguars’; Savannah Morning News, October 4, 2000, p. 4D
- ^ Prisco, Pete; ‘Jaguars’ No. 1 goal: End skid – Dallas offers latest chance to win again’; Florida Times-Union; October 29, 200, p. C-11
- ^ Oehser, John; ‘Wanted: Cap Room 2001: A year of restructuring for Jaguars’; Florida Times-Union, December 31, 2000, p. C-9