3 2025 Mistakes For Jaguars To Learn From

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars had a stellar 2025 season, littered pinch bully memories, large wins and shrewd moves connected and disconnected nan field.

But if nan Jaguars for a 2nd enactment for illustration they person arrived and perfected their craft, they are going astir it wrong. The Jaguars, of course, are excessively smart and excessively well-run to enactment for illustration that, which intends they cognize location are moments and mistakes to look backmost and study from.

So, what are nan 3 mistakes from 2025 the Jaguars' regime tin study from to thief power their 2026 decisions? We return a look below.

Dyami Brown Deal

The Jaguars mostly had occurrence successful free agency, aliases astatine slightest sewage successful base. Jourdan Lewis and Robert Hainsey were some cardinal starters and squad captains, while Eric Murray and Patrick Mekari started plentifulness of games and played a batch of snaps. Most of nan different signings were extent moves, but location was besides nan Dyami Brown signing.

Brown's one-year, $10 cardinal woody wasn't 1 that was ever going to wounded nan Jaguars successful nan long-run. It was a low-risk woody for a subordinate coming disconnected a terrific playoff run, and location was immoderate sizeable upside if Brown panned retired to beryllium what they envisioned -- a starting receiver. This seemed for illustration a scope successful position of projection astatine nan time, and it vanished pinch Brown arsenic a patient scratch pinch 20 catches for 227 yards and 1 touchdown. Don't expect James Gladstone to make this correction again.

Houston, Bengals Losses

The Jaguars surely won their adjacent stock of games successful 2025. The Jaguars had 1 of nan NFL's champion records astatine 13-4, finishing pinch 1 of nan astir awesome regular-seasons successful nan full history of nan franchise. But if location are immoderate games nan Jaguars would for illustration to person back, it would beryllium their only regular-season losses to AFC foes.

The Cincinnati Bengals nonaccomplishment came backmost to haunt nan Jaguars erstwhile it came to playoff seeding, and it surely felt avoidable successful nan infinitesimal too. Awful DPI emblem connected Travis Hunter notwithstanding, nan Jaguars made a ton of self-inflicted mistakes and fto Jake Browning get a game-winning drive. As for nan Houston loss, not overmuch much needs to beryllium said astir it. They learned from it successful 2025 and request to proceed to do so.

The Khalen Saunders Trade

The Jaguars' waste and acquisition for Khalen Saunders came pinch nary existent downside, but it was still a stud. All of nan different trades nan Jaguars made either had nan Jaguars arsenic clear winners aliases astatine slightest sewage nan Jaguars thing affirmative retired of it (dumping Tyson Campbell's contract, adding Travis Hunter's talent). The aforesaid can't beryllium said for nan Khalen Saunders trade, though. Good connected nan Jaguars for being imaginative astir their protect tackle issue, but this was a dud.

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