With Jags coach Jack Del Rio vowing to make major changes in the offseason (and assuming that Del Rio himself isn’t one of the changes), running back Fred Taylor could be on his way out.

Taylor’s recent comments calling the 2008 version of the Jags the worst team on which he ever has played likely won’t help his cause.

But the 11-year veteran wants to stick around, even though he senses that the end is coming.

“When those opportunities go away, not necessarily carries, but playing time,” Taylor said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.  “I played 22 snaps [Sunday], you do the math.  If you were on the outside looking in, you would think a change was coming.  I want to be here first. . . .  This is where my heart is.”

Taylor is signed through 2009, and his salary for next season is scheduled to be $5 million.  But if the Jags decide not to bring him back, Taylor will try to play somewhere else.

“I want to be successful.  I want to go out the same way I came in.  I don’t want to just dwindle and fade away.  I want to go out on top.  I want to end like Tiki [Barber] did.  On his own terms.  Numbers, production, all of that up.  I’m just not going to mash my team in the process.”

Except when he mashed his team on Tuesday.