Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan called last year’s late-season collapse an “organizational failure,” Mark Long of The Associated Press reports.

Speaking after he and Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan signed a proclamation Wednesday that formally sealed a $1.4 billion “stadium of the future” proposal passed by the city a night earlier, Khan opened up about a variety of football-related topics.

He praised the long-term contracts for quarterback Trevor Lawrence and pass rusher Josh Allen. He talked about playing in London and maybe Northern Ireland. He offered some insight into how Amit Patel, a former Jaguars financial manager, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $22 million from the NFL franchise through its virtual credit card program.

He also weighed in, sort of, on who he’d prefer call plays in 2024: coach Doug Pederson or offensive coordinator Press Taylor.

“Yeah, I have an opinion,” Khan said. “But I don’t want to tell people ‘We need to do it’ because then things don’t work out, they look at me and say, ‘We did it because you wanted it.’”

Khan even pointed to a recent column in the New York Times that included a line about Pederson’s future hanging in the balance in 2024 and said: “If I were in that situation, I’d want my hands on the wheel.”

“Doug, he’s empowered,” Khan said. “I’m going to let him decide.”

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