The front office has made it completely clear that, no matter how bad the results, you will not be judged on your first year results at all. They know you are walking into a bad situation and will not hold that against you, even if you go 0-16.

You have no valuable assets. Everything available to you is for sale. You have free reign over the entire franchise.

What do you do in your first twelve months? What direction do you take the team? What is your road to building a championship-caliber team?

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Fire Phil Emery

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Congratulations! You are now head coach and GM of the Shreveport Jaguars! Your team still sucks. Fix it.

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Fire Phil Emery

First:

Get the owners to move somewhere that isn't Jacksonville. LA sounds like a nice option.

Next:

Take advantage of the fact that the move probably brought some realignment with it. Kansas City moves to the AFC South (no one cares), you now compete against the Chargers (meh), the Broncos (cripple QB), and the Raiders (LOL). If money from the owners isn't an option, spend as much as you can to woo competent pro scouts, and build a good college scouting department, too.

Now that you have scouting in place, don't retain crap. Use expiring money to bring in as many top free ajents as possible. Being in LA helps. Players don't give a damn about fans, they want whores and nightlife. LA has a ton of that.

Be mindful of where you hire your coaches from. Avoid the "Patriots tree". Also, Andy Reid is a terrible option. Jon Gruden might work. The key is to get a DC that isn't a driveling idiot.

When in doubt, bring in the #2 from Green Bay or Pittsburgh, and pick his brain to figure out what is working.

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NFL won't split up the Chiefs and Raiders. Biggest AFL rivalry, and maybe still the biggest AFC rivalry. More likely you'd see San Diego move. Not that it makes a huge difference in your scenario.

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Subbing out Jacksonville for Los Angeles wouldn't necessitate realignment; the AFC South is a junk drawer. Just lobby for late starts against the Colts and Titans (don't the Texans have late starts anyway?).

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Not much I can do right now, unless someone's willing to throw me a 2 for MJD, which I would jump on. I think Mularkey's a dope and Gabbert's a lost cause, but I have to give them this season. If they don't show a lot of promise, I'd dump them both and hire some assistant (probably defensive, since that's my strength right now--Perry Fewell maybe?) and acquire the best available veteran QB. Spend my top picks in 2013 on QB/OL/WR, in that order. Do it right and I could compete next year purely by virtue of my defense being so good and the division being so shitty.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Yeah, the AFC west is like the NFC north & NFC east, divisions the league won't touch (even if the east is geographically fucked up). I agree that SD is the one who would get the boot, but I would likely see the LA Jags moved to the NFC West (a la Seattle), the Panthers move to the AFC south, and the rams moved to the NFC South to revive rivalries w/ the Saints & Falcons.