Jaguars coach Doug Pederson cuts son from team - ESPN

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Cut-down day in the NFL is always a hard one on head coaches. Having to tell a player they weren't good enough to make the team is tough.

It must be even tougher when it's your son.

That's what Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson had to do Tuesday. His son, tight end Josh Pederson, was among the players the Jacksonville Jaguars waived. It wasn't an unexpected move — Josh Pederson was fifth on the depth chart and the team opted to keep only three tight ends — but it still probably made for a bit of an awkward conversation.

When asked Monday if he wanted to be the person who told his son he was going to be cut if that were the decision, Doug Pederson joked that he has had to give his son some bad news before.

«I spanked him at one point,» Doug Pederson said with a laugh. «Same thing.»

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Then he got serious and admitted that he and general manager Trent Baalke would treat Josh Pederson the same as any player they cut.

«I'd want to tell him,» Doug Pederson said. «Trent would want to visit with him as well, and I definitely want to talk to him and just let him know — I mean, he's been through this process before with a couple other teams last year. And I'm very familiar with it, obviously, as a former player, and walk him through the process and and let him know that everything's going to be OK.»

Josh Pederson played for the USFL's Houston Gamblers in the spring, catching 24 passes for 325 yards in 10 games. The Gamblers