JACKSONVILLE – Let's get to it …

Michael from Orange Park, FL

Thoughts?

My Scooby Sense – and not my Scobee Sense – tells me you want some quick-trigger analysis of the Jaguars' 2025 Stadium Scrimmage inside EverBank Stadium Friday night. My quick reaction was that quarterback Trevor Lawrence looked very good, as did wide receivers Brian Thomas Jr., Travis Hunter, Dyami Brown and Parker Washington. Tight end Brenton Strange also looked very good. Head Coach Liam Coen afterward was understandably pleased after the offense showed some serious explosiveness. It also seemed from this view defensive end Travon Walker would have had multiple sacks had this been a game situation, and it also seemed defensive end Josh Hines-Allen would have had at least one sack. Cornerback Jourdan Lewis continued to look very good and kicker Cam Little continued to show his unreal range. This was for the most part a good night. Those are the first thoughts.

Limo Bob from Neptune Beach/Piscataway

Do you expect a rousing reception for Jalen Ramsey next weekend?

Fair question – and perhaps an interesting one. The Jaguars' 2025 preseason opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers at EverBank Stadium next Saturday will be former Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey's first game in Jacksonville since a back injury forced his early-season trade from the Jaguars to the Los Angeles Rams in 2019. I confess I had forgotten that this was a possible Preseason Week 1 storyline until your email because I don't keep a particularly close watch on Ramsey these days. I suspect many Jaguars fans are in a similar situation, though I also suspect enough will remember Ramsey next Saturday for a smattering of boos. And maybe a smattering of cheers, too. I also don't know that Ramsey will play enough in Preseason Week 1 for the smattering to be more than a smattering.

Adam from Jagsonville Beach

Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone said he wants to be BOLD when the opportunity presents itself. Well, Micah Parsons wants out of Dallas! What could be more BOLD? They're going to pay Walker about 90 percent of what you would have to pay Parsons anyway! Let them pick between Josh Hines-Allen and Walker, throw in a first- (2027) and third-rounder and let's be BOLD!!!!

Trade machiiiiiiiine!!!!!!

Bruce from St. Simons Island, GA

O, As we approach the preseason, what would you look at in the preseason games to see improvement? Last year the Jags were undefeated in the preseason, obviously not a good indicator of a successful season.

Preseason record is neither a good nor a bad indicator of how a team will fare in the regular season. This is because preseason games are entirely different than regular-season games in that there is often very little game-planning in preseason and almost always an emphasis on having players in evaluation situations rather than winning or losing. So, what do you watch in preseason to see improvement? Watch how the starters fare. Watch for stoutness on the lines. Watch if the offense can put together a few good stretches. Watch to see if a team looks fast. And when you're watching, remember: What you're watching might be very different than what you see when the games matter.

Anita from Springfield

In my overly optimistic offseason period, I have a bold prediction that feels semirealistic. Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile will be a head coach candidate NEXT year after elevating a talented defense that was misused last year from worst to Top 8 in most areas, with especially impressive metrics in turnover flip. Even if we aren't as dominant as I want to become, I can see his performance being really good and looking GREAT compared to last year. Thoughts?

Campanile has the feel of a future head coach. One successful season as a defensive coordinator feels a bit quick to ascend to head coach, but I would like to be wrong. I like Campanile and would like to see him succeed. Him succeeding would also make the Jaguars good. Win win, as they say.

Nick from Milton, Canada

There was a post yesterday about the NHL being "a very distant second to the NFL in physicality." Anyone who has played hockey at a high level will tell you it is not a "distant second," but rather a similar level.

No doubt.

Nolan from Gainesville

Adding rookie cornerback Travis Hunter and others to the secondary, and already having some pretty significant talent at the linebacker position, should lead to defensive ends Travon Walker, Josh Hines-Allen and the rest of the defensive line being the most dominant pass rush in the AFC South! Competing against a rookie quarterback in Tennessee, a question mark in Indianapolis and a decent Stroud in Houston … any thoughts on the pass rush being one of the biggest strengths of our team this season, and possibly the key to taking the division crown this year?

I'm perhaps not quiiiiiite so giddy about the pass rush as you. Yet. I absolutely think Walker and Hines-Allen are a very formidable – and game-clinching – duo on the outside. I think the storyline entering the season about the Jaguars' pass rush is similar to the last two seasons – i.e., can the team stop the run enough, play with enough leads and get enough complementary pressure to be a great pass-rushing team as opposed to having two really good edge defenders? On a side note: I'm a not as big on the secondary and linebackers influencing the pass rushers as I am the other way around. It's difficult in the NFL for defensive backs to cover well enough to force quarterbacks to hold the ball long enough for pass rusher to sack quarterbacks. Pass rushers from this view help pass defenders far more than the other way around. Either way, the pass rush absolutely has a chance to be a team strength – and if it is team strength, this team has a chance to compete for the AFC South. So I'm kinda sorta with you, I guess. I'm just not giddy yet.

Stokes from Orange Park, FL

For Arik Armstead to "not have a reported injury and indeed having practiced sparingly in seven practices" is - particularly with an entirely new coaching and front office still being installed - specifically, not what you're looking for. I've tried to ebb back in support of that dude after his likely hand in whatever you would term the DE/DT RIDICULOUSNESS that went on, and – more directly - him coming out voicing his support for Texans safety Azeez Al-Shaair after that hit on quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Texting the guy to accomplish that same thing and "liking" his post, that was pretty much Shaair bucking his ownership of wrong in the matter - sans Armstead voicing any support for his quarterback, that I can recall, anyways - isn't just not a good look ... I think it was him telling you who he is. And you should believe people when they tell you who they are, and aren't. Or you'll keep "learning" that lesson until you do. Us all having to "grin" and bear him being "NFL Man of The Year" and announcing our (expletive) draft pick (with all this in view), I guess just sucked for us.

Armstead was announced Friday as having a sore back and is considered day-to-day. He did not participate Friday.

Nicholas from Fort Hood, TX

KOAF: You mentioned there are videos of you exercising on July 31, 2025 O-Zone. I tried searching and had no luck. Can you send us the video that former Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee made of you jogging down the road?

Some things are better left unseen.

Josh from Atlanta, GA

I read this line from Thursday's notes, "Allen is by far the best pass blocking running back on the roster" and raised my eyebrows. Is that something standing out so significantly? To be by far the best at his age makes me think he's either phenomenal, or the other guys are just OK at it. Not like it makes or break a season, clearly. I just (think I) know there will be a significant amount of play action in this offense.

That line was written by my Jaguars media colleague, Kainani Stevens, who has noted rookie running back LeQuint Allen Jr.'s pass-blocking multiple times this offseason. He indeed is very capable in this area. It's not a major, major strength of the returning backs on the roster, Tank Bigsby and Travis Etienne Jr., so yes … it stands out. Will that mean more play-action in the offense? Sure, providing the Jaguars can run effectively to set it up. That matters as much or more in effective play-action than how well the backs block.

John from Jacksonville

Whether the Jaguars start the season on offense or defense, do you think rookie wide receiver/defensive back Travis Hunter will play the first snap?

If the Jaguars are on offense, almost certainly. If the Jaguars are on defense, probably – but not as certain.