When the Titans face the Jaguars on Sunday, Robert Saleh and Liam Coen will coach against each other for the first time since their run-in last year, when they exchanged words on the field over something Saleh, then the defensive coordinator of the 49ers, said something about Coen that Coen didn’t appreciate.
Last year, Saleh said that Coen’s team was good at stealing signals, intending it as a compliment for how good they are at recognizing what the opposing defense was doing. Coen interpreted it as an accusation of cheating and confronted Saleh on the field after the game.
Today Saleh was asked about that, and he said he and Coen have spoken and there are no hard feelings.
“Liam’s great, man,” Saleh said. “We’ve had plenty of interactions. The whole thing is what it was, a little misunderstanding, poor words on my part. But they’re doing a great job. I love what they’re doing offensively. They’ve definitely got an identity. And then [defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile] on the other side. Overall as an organization, they’ve done a really nice job.”
Coen’s confrontational approach toward Saleh after the game last year seemed like an overreaction, but no one can dispute that Coen has done a great job building the Jaguars. Saleh knows he’s going up against a good coach on Sunday, and he won’t provide any bulletin-board material.
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Two of Jacksonville’s deadline acquisitions will not be on the field for the club this weekend.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen told reporters in his Friday press conference that safety Jessie Bates and defensive tackle Jordan Davis will sit out Sunday’s matchup against the Titans because they did not have a bye week with their previous teams. Davon Godchaux, who did have a bye, is set to play.
“Want to be able to make sure [that with] player safety, putting them in a position to succeed, also learn the system, and just give those guys a week to be able to do that,” Coen said.
Coen added that the club had been talking about doing that this week and made the final decision to rest the players on Friday.
The head coach has been impressed with all of the acquisitions so far.
“Yeah, I mean, Jesse Bates has been here until about 10:30 every night, which has been pretty cool seeing him in there learning, grinding, working through it,” Coen said. “There’s obviously so much that safeties have to be able to communicate and operate with in the backend of the entire structure. I’ve really appreciated the way him, Jordan, and Davon have all gone through the work week. Obviously, Davon and Jesse have been through different organizations, teams, moves — this is new for Jordan. And he’s worked his tail off with the strength and conditioning and sports science, athletic training guys this week. And he’s putting his best foot forward to hopefully be able to get out next week for us.”
The Jaguars will be on the road to face the Giants in Week 11, where Davis and Bates will make their respective debuts.
The Tennessee Titans apparently need an asterisk on their name.
At least two TV markets in the state for which the team is named have passed on televising their Week 10 game against the Jaguars.
Drew Lerner of Awful Announcing explains that 506sports.com coverage map shows that the Knoxville and Chattanooga Fox affiliates will not televise the Jaguars-Titans game. Instead, Vikings-Packers will be shown in the 1:00 p.m. ET window.
It’s a preliminary map, as Lerner notes. The Fox affiliates in Knoxville and Chattanooga, the third- and fourth-largest cities in the league by way of population, could change their minds.
Making the situation even more unusual is the fact that Fox won’t get many Titans games, because they’re usually on CBS. The obvious takeaway is that the Fox affiliates in Knoxville and Chattanooga believe that more people will watch Packers-Vikings than will watch Jaguars-Titans.
It’s not personal, it’s business. And the affiliates think they’re business interests are best served by showing Packers-Vikings not Jaguars-Titans.
The Jaguars got a couple of their top players back on the practice field on Thursday.
Wide receiver Jakobi Meyers (ankle) and defensive end Travon Walker (rib) were both limited participants after sitting out Wednesday’s session. Neither player has missed a game yet this season and Friday will bring word if there’s a chance that will change against the Titans.
Running back Bhayshul Tuten (ankle) remained out. He was listed as out of practice all three days last week, but was able to play in last Thursday’s win over the Ravens. Safety Jessie Bates (rest) and defensive tackle Jordan Davis (rest) also remained out as they get acclimated to their new team.
Offensive lineman Ezra Cleveland (knee, ankle), safety Antonio Johnson (ankle), running back Chris Rodriguez (hand), linebacker Brandon Combs (shoulder), and offensive lineman Robert Hainsey (concussion) were limited. Defensive end B.J. Green (forearm) was a full participant after being designated for return from injured reserve.
The Jaguars signaled they’re all-in on the 2026 season by making several trades to fortify their roster before the deadline.
Quarterback Trevor Lawrence told reporters in his Wednesday press conference that the moves signal a positive trend for the team.
“I think you try not to look too much into it,” Lawrence said, via transcript from the team. “We have the same job to do, and I think we have a really good team that has good chemistry. Has gelled together. We like playing together, we have great camaraderie. All those things that are just hard to put your finger on sometimes. I think we have all that. I think we’ve been playing well, and so we still have a job to do, and nothing changes from that perspective.
“But I do think, obviously with the moves made, I think it shows the confidence in our team, and what we have the chance to do. I think that we’re a really good team, and now we get even better with these guys. I think that’s all it is, is just making our team even better, and we know that we’re going to have a shot. We just got to keep playing well and we got to keep winning. I think you can’t look too much into it because we still have the same job right in front of us, but I think these guys are going to help us for sure.”
Moreover, it helps that the players acquired have significant postseason experience.
“I think to get winners, to get guys that have been there before, that experience is important,” Lawrence said. “I think that is, why would you not want that if you can? Obviously, you got to look at the players you’re getting, and you want great players, but if they’ve also won Super Bowls and been to Super Bowls, I think that’s icing on the cake or whatever. That’s a plus. So, we have some guys obviously in that group that have done that. Just excited to get that experience. I think they’ve played meaningful football. They know what it looks like and going to add that value to our team.”
We’ll see how the additions start to fit in when the Jaguars play the Titans on Sunday.
Jaguars kicker Cam Little has gained a reputation for long field goals over his three years in the NFL, but he didn’t have to show off his big leg against the Ravens last Thursday.
Little was called on to kick four field goals during the game, but none of them were longer than 47 yards. Little made all of them and he also hit all three extra points he tried in Jacksonville’s 33-10 win.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced that Little has been named the AFC special teams player of the week. Little also won that award once last season.
Little is 14-of-16 on field goals and 25-of-26 for extra points over the entire season.
The Jaguars have welcomed three new players to the team this week and they will also be reintegrating a current member of the team into practice.
The team announced on Wednesday that they have designated defensive end B.J. Green for return from injured reserve. Green suffered an elbow injury in the first game of the season.
Green played three special teams snaps in that game. He joined the Jags as an undrafted free agent in 2025 and appeared in 14 games. He had 15 tackles, two sacks and a fumble recovery.
The Jaguars will have a 21-day window to activate Green and he’ll be ineligible to return this season if he does not rejoin the active roster before that period is over.
Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone doesn’t view this week’s moves to acquire safety Jessie Bates, defensive tackle Jordan Davis, and defensive tackle Davon Godchaux in the same light as many others around the football world have characterized them.
Gladstone sent away the team’s 2027 first- and second-round picks, 2028 fifth- and sixth-round picks, and 2029 second-round pick in three Monday trades, which has been positioned as going all-in on maximizing the team’s Super Bowl chances after a 6-2 start. In a Tuesday press conference, Gladstone said he wouldn’t “necessarily” use the same framing and said he’d describe the team’s approach as always “getting better as a football team and prioritizing getting better as a football team.”
Another popular response has been that Gladstone has adopted his former Rams boss Les Snead’s “F them picks” to building the team’s Super Bowl LVI winners and subsequent teams. Gladstone noted that the Rams made plenty of picks while he was there from 2017-2024 and that he always takes into account the compensatory draft pick process during free agency as a way to supplement assets that can be used in a variety of ways.
“It’s a very symbiotic process that encompasses a lot of layers to it, but it’s certainly not ‘F them picks,’” Gladstone said. “While that’s been characterized as the approach, it’s not necessarily — we actually value picks. We don’t always use them on the three days that exist in April.”
Gladstone also acknowledged that “a part of it” is acquiring known commodities rather than gambling on the unknown trajectories of draft picks. There’s a gamble involved with the Jaguars’ approach as well and the way it pays off will be a big part of Gladstone’s ultimate legacy in Jacksonville.
When it comes to interpreting press releases regarding the audiences for sporting events, there’s a rule of thumb.
The higher the number appears in the release, the better the company thinks the audience is. The lower the number appears in the release, the less impactful the figure is.
And if the number is really bad, there’s no release at all.
For the Week 9 Thursday night game between the Jaguars and Ravens— which was destined to have a non-stellar audience thanks to the Ravens being down to their third-string quarterback — Prime Video led with the fact that the eight-game season-to-date average has outperformed last year’s numbers.
The 33-10 win by the Jaguars, which Prime Video accurately called “lopsided” in the release, generated an average of 13.96 million viewers.
It nevertheless was, as Prime Video notes, a 13-percent bump over last year’s Week 9 Thursday night game. And for good reason. The Week 9 Thursday night game in 2025 featured the Ravens at the Dolphins, a 28-6 Baltimore win.
Even with an audience of less than 14 million in the eighth TNF game of the season, the package is offering 17.15 million per week for 2026.
This week’s game — Commanders at Giants — should do well, given that the Giants are both doing well and occupy the nation’s top market. In Week 11, it’s Colts at Texans. Which won’t be great.
The following week, Prime Video has a potentially massive game on Black Friday between the currently 7-2 Broncos and 6-2 Steelers.
After that, it’s Chiefs-Rams, Vikings-Patriots, 49ers-Chargers, Texans-Eagles (on Christmas Eve), and Ravens-Bengals.
The Jaguars spent Monday adding players to their roster and they moved in the other direction on Tuesday.
They announced that they have waived cornerback Alijah Huzzie. The Jaguars acquired safety Jessie Bates, defensive tackle Jordan Davis, and defensive tackle Davon Godchaux in trades on Monday.
Huzzie was signed off of the Jaguars’ practice squad last month. He appeared in one game for the Jags and saw all of his playing time on special teams.
Huzzie also played in two games for the Texans last season. He had four tackles and an interception while in Houston.
Travis Hunter, Montaric Brown, Jourdan Lewis, Jaylon Jones, and Jarrian Jones remain on the roster at cornerback for Jacksonville.
