Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone was severely slighted in NFL Coach of the Year voting

The discrepancy in votes between Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone for NFL Coach of the Year simply doesn’t make sense.

The annual NFL Honors were held again on Saturday, one night before the Super Bowl. The best of the best in the league is awarded and recognized for various achievements during the season that was.

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One of the most prestigious awards handed out was for Coach of the Year, honoring the NFL head coach who was viewed as doing the best job with their team in 2017. The accolade went to first-year Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay.

No disrespect to McVay, and this is not about suggesting the head coach did not deserve the win. But the final voting numbers, particularly between McVay and Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone, simply does not add up.

As you can see, Sean McVay received 35 votes, and ran away with the award. Marrone, on the other hand, garnered just two votes. TWO.

Let’s take a quick glance at what the two coaches achieved with their teams this season:

Rams: After going 4-12 in 2016, went 11-5 in 2017, won the NFC West, but lost at home in the first round of the playoffs.

Jaguars: After going 3-13 in 2016, went 10-6 in 2017, won the AFC South, and made the AFC Championship game.

Again, not to discredit the work McVay did in 2017, but where within those two successful individual seasons is there reasonable logic for a THIRTY-THREE vote seperation? Both teams improved by seven wins in the regular season, and both won their respective divisions. The difference, and a substantial one at that, is that Doug Marrone lead his team all the way to the conference championship game. And a lack of talent for McVay to work with is clearly not a viable argument, as the Rams have both the Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year in Todd Gurley and Aaron Donald.

Being overlooked is unfortunately nothing new for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and when it came to NFL Coach of the Year voting, overlooked was an understatement.