The Jacksonville Jaguars continue to do their best “2019 Miami Dolphins” impression ahead of the 2020 season. On Friday, the team released defensive end Caraun Reid, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported.
Jaguars released veteran DE Caraun Reid today.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 4, 2020
Reid was signed this past offseason after playing 2019 with the Arizona Cardinals. The 28-year-old has 3.5 career sacks in 47 games (16 starts). The Jaguars would have marked Reid's fifth team ahead of his seventh pro season.
In the past two weeks, Jacksonville—already projected to be amongst the league's worst teams in 2020—has traded star defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings, dealt safety Ronnie Harrison to the Cleveland Brown, and released running back Leonard Fournette.
The flurry of moves has fueled tanking speculation. Not surprisingly, head coach Doug Marrone and second-year quarterback Gardner Minshew pushed back on that notion.
“At the end of the day, if I don’t win enough games or do enough with this team, I don’t foresee me still being employed. So I’m doing everything I can to make sure that we have the best team to win football games,” Marrone said.
“I think people see it from afar and see, ‘Oh they’re losing their biggest names.’ But that’s not how we feel,” Minshew said via WJXT. “Realistically, I know if we’re tanking, coach Marrone, [GM] Dave Caldwell and [I] are probably going to be out of jobs. So I know us three and a lot of those other guys in the locker room are not going to let that crap happen. So I feel very confidently in everybody’s desire to win and that’s absolutely not anything that we envision happening.”
The 2019 Dolphins conducted a similar sell-off one year ago. Miami overturned nearly a fifth of its roster—including trading away Laremy Tunsil, Kenny Stills, and Kiko Alonso—in the days prior to Week 1. The team looked tank-tastic through the season's first 11 games (2-9), only to pull out a few inspired late-season victories and finish at 5-11. However, they were still able to land their potential franchise quarterback in Tua Tagovailoa with the No. 5 pick.
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