After a long and vast interview process, Jacksonville’s Jaguars finally found their new managing director. The position will be provided by James Gladstone, who previously was director of the Los Angeles RAMS scouting strategy.
Just before landing the job, Gladstone had finished his second interview with the Jaguars, who had interviewed 10 other candidates for the position. Gladstone was one of the five candidates who had obtained a second interview.
“James has become my choice and our choice, following a meticulous but energizing interview process that has left nothing to doubt,” said Jaguars owner Shad Khan said in a press release. “Each candidate has delivered, and I am grateful to them for all their preparation and their time spent with us this week in Jacksonville., Chemistry and an acute understanding of the League and our team, to name some of the many virtues that He will immediately bring to the jaguars.
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“It’s going to be fun to watch James work with our Liam Coen football leadership team, Tony Boselli and Tony Khan, but above all it will be enriching. I am confident.”
Gladstone has spent the last nine seasons with the Rams which included the last three as director of the team’s scouting strategy. Its responsibilities in this role included the supervision of the execution of daily screening processes, screening for current and potential actors and the provision of analyzes on a variety of special projects. Gladstone also collaborated with the Director General of Rams, SNEADs, strategic planning.
During the time of Gladstone in Los Angeles, the Rams won four division titles, made the qualifiers six times, won two conference titles and one Super bowl at the end of the 2021 season.
Originally from St. Louis, Gladstone worked in the administration of education as director of student activities and football coach in Clayton High School. He was also the media and literacy coordinator and football coach at St. John Vianney High School, who is also stationed in St. Louis.
Gladstone will now start to work alongside Coen, the new Jaguars head coach who spent the 2024 season as an offensive coordinator of Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Jaguars want to get out of a disappointing 3-14 season which led to the dismissal of former head coach Doug Pederson and the director general Trent Baalke.
