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Are the Jaguars Playmakers BELOW AVERAGE?! · Duval Daily: A Jacksonville Jaguars Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacksonville Jaguar fans welcome in to do vault daily presented by Jinjak.com and fueled by brass tax coffee, best coffee in town.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now we've got some more fuel for the fire for your Jacksonville Jaguar's Liam Cohen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the ultimate motivators in football right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no question about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And one of his best abilities is to take what the media, fans, critics, whoever,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: says negatively about the Jacksonville Jaguars and to use it to fuel his football team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He does this at an expert level and I think that the rest of the coaching staff feeds into that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that the players feed into that because let's face it many of the players the Jaguars have, have at one point or another, been
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  [SPEAKER_00]: either, you know, thrown out with the bath water or heavily criticized and one way or the other.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so now you have ESPN's Bill Barnwell putting out the list of the top, you know, one to 32, 32 to one, however you want to put it, playmaking units in the NFL on offense, which is the running backs, the wider sewers and the tight ends.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he has the Jacksonville Jaguar's down at 18.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are some fair points here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are also some things that disagree with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's also just differences of opinions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's also a massive, massive, just mistake that Barnwell has made in this clip, in this post that he made.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna dive into it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we'll just go ahead and get into it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ranked 18th, 2024, rank was 16.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's wild to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You think they're worse?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then they were entering last year at this time last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, Barmol does make some decent points here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If the Jags get the best version of their existing receivers, they'll be in great shape.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: BDJ looked like a superstar in 2024, Jacobi Myers got white hot at midseason after being acquired from the Raiders, Parker Washington took over down the stretch and averaged just under 115 receiving your arts per game over his final four contests.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and Travis Hunter seemed to be hitting his stride as a wide out with a 101-yard game against the Rams before suffering his season ending the injury.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If the jackwares get those versions of those four wideouts in 2026, they'll be stacked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems at least a tad optimistic to count on all those versions showing up though.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas inspired concerns about his desire to catch balls in tight spaces and never seemed to get right in 2025 as he battled injuries.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Myers has been a solid pro for years, but after he cooled down, after he cooled off down the stretch, his rate stats were right in line with where they had been for most of his time with the Patriots and Raiders.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've been a Washington fan for a while, but this same organization signed Yami Brown to play ahead of him last off season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So let's just talk about some of the things we've read about so far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's very to criticize BTJ for 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All of us have done that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Myers, very good player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all know that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Parker Washington, criticizing the Jaguar's for signing deami Brown, when this Jaguar's coaching staff and regime had not worked with Parker Washington yet, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they signed deami in February or March.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was March.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They had not gotten to work with Parker Washington yet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They had not seen Parker Washington work yet, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So like to me, that's a bit of a reach on like a critique of Parker Washington.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That makes no sense in my opinion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we get into Hunter is expected to major in corner back and minor at wide receiver this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Strode to become a steady and reliable member of the passing attack in his first season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The expectation that he majors in quarterback and minors at wide receiver, I think
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a reach to really say that that's 100% going to be the case at this point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And even if he does minor at wide receiver in terms of a snap standpoint during the regular season, he is not minoring at wide receiver and the work he's putting in this offseason.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have talked about that at Nazium.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He has been more focused on learning wide receiver and becoming a better wide receiver than he is at corner because he needs to get further along at wide receiver from a nuance understanding of the offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about that a million times.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: by no fault of his own.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He entered the NFL as a ready-made pro corner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He had a lot of work to do to get caught up in a very advanced NFL offense that is very demanding of its players from a pre-snap and post-snap timing, depth, all these things, standpoint.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And to say that he never took off as a wide receiver during his rookie year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can reference the Rams game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's done it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the bigger point to me is that he only got to play seven games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, let's not say he sat here and played a full season and didn't get it going at receiver.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He played seven games as a rookie who was also playing corner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that to me is also a very big reach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Barnwell says I'm holding out hope of Thomas returning to form and the wide-outs around him doing enough to impress So he's basically saying he believes in that group But running back is a clear weakness Basel Tutan showed little explosiveness as a rookie while averaging 3.7 yards per carry and fumble and twice on 93 touches.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay I agree Tutan didn't look as explosive consistently as you would like
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about that a lot, the explosiveness is clearly there, and his success rate as a runner was extremely high.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With Travis ET and Jr. leaving Barnwell, right, it's too and we'll be expecting to do a sum of larger role.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a useful runner, but he offers less as a receiver than any other regularly seen back in the NFL, and the former commander's back is already battling a foot injury.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just staying on the running back front real quick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, no mention of Lee Quint Allen, who is a very good receiving back and a very good pass now and back in general.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think it's fair.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're just a, and this is the difficulty in my opinion of being a national reporter, making a list that includes all 32 teams and each group of playmakers that wide receiver running back and tight end.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's difficult for Barnwell and anyone to know the ends and outs of what's going on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so like not mentioning Lee Quentin Allen in my opinion is a mistake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not mentioning the fact that Bacial Tutan was a very good receiver last year and had a really good success rate despite only averaging 3.7 yards per carry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All that stuff is a big whiff.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The biggest whiff.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Britain's strange just signed a pretty dang big tight-end contract.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why is he not mentioned in this article at all?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What are we doing here?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what are we doing?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Britain's strange.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the best playmakers on the Jaguars offense is not mentioned.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A player that the Jaguars are going to rely on in a major way that they did rely on last year in a major way when he was healthy at the tight-end position.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not mentioned, he played 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You got injured early against the chiefs, so we're not going to count that one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 games, and at 549 yards and 3 touchdowns as a tight end, and an offense that spread the wealth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Caught 76% of his targets, caught 60% of his contested catch targets, drop rate of 5.9% kicked butt as a blocker.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no mention of the improvement of the tight end room either, you know, with the additions of caricature and cozoal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think that this isn't
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the one hand, I want to say, look, it's a difficult job to put together a list like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It absolutely is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, to not mention Britain's strange is unreal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To knock Parker Washington, who this organization had not worked with, because the Jaguar signed the Army round last year, is a major wiff in logic and reasoning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To not mention that Chris Rodriguez had,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: a top five or 10 success rate, depending on where you're looking, is MS.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I understand saying on paper that running back is a weakness, but I think when you dive a little bit deeper, that's not really the case in my opinion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to Travis Hunter, I think he's being underrated in this article.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to be awesome on offense and defense this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to be great for the Jaguars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's that level of player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Parker Washington is going to be great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think BTJ is going to look a lot more like he did in 2024 than he did in 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Jacobie Myers is a very good player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, Britain's strange is maybe as key to all of this as anyone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in terms of the playmakers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's articles of pretty big miss.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all have a good one.