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Shad Khan: I still believe in Doug Pederson and Trent Baalke

Shortly before the start of the regular season, Jaguars owner Shad Khan said that “win now is the expectation,” because he felt the current team is the best assembled in franchise history.

The Jaguars have fallen well short of that expectation over the past five weeks. The Jaguars lost their first four games before a win over the Colts last Sunday, but Khan said Saturday that the results didn’t change his perception of the team “at all.”

Khan told Demetrius Harvey about the Florida Times-Union that he admires the work that head coach Doug Pederson and general manager Trent Baalke have done and wonders “how can we support them to get better results and more wins.”

“I still believe in it,” said Khan. “I believe in the players, I believe in the technical staff. I believe in Trent. Obviously the results are disappointing for all of them, as much as for me and for every other Jaguar fan, but the most important thing to understand is that we have evolved and really reached a level. I think we have the players, the coaching, the facilities.”

The Jaguars are in London for the next two weeks and back-to-back wins over the Bears and Patriots in their second home would provide the Jaguars with a path to the kind of results Khan has been looking for heading into the season. Anything else could be cause for Khan to reassess his feelings about Pederson, Baalke and the direction of the franchise.