The Jacksonville Jaguars’ Logan Cooke is a punter, but not your run-of-the-mill kind of punter. He’s 6 feet 5, 230 pounds, and he likes hitting people.

Jacksonville’s 25-3 rout of the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 30 at Nissan Stadium was decisive on the scoreboard, but the real fireworks unfolded off the stat sheet — centered on Cooke.

The first sparks of drama ignited at halftime when Cooke, forced to punt with backup long snapper DaVon Hamilton in place of Ross Matiscik, approached the referee. There were frustrations with the way the Titans were rushing with the backup long snapper in place. In an exchange published on the Tennessee Titans’ website, Cooke said he wanted to clear the air because he might have said something that was “rude,” adding, “I don’t like people having grudges against me.”

There were grudges in the second half, however, including a Cooke confrontation with Titans running back Julius Chestnut. Chestnut claimed after the game that Cooke told him he was going to kill him.

The incident that triggered that exchange came early in the fourth quarter. Chestnut blocked Cooke as the punter attempted to trip Titans returner Chimere Dike during a 47-yard return. Cooke stayed down, was evaluated for a concussion and later returned to punt. Tensions reignited after Dike’s next return, with players from both teams converging in a scrum near the sideline. Officials flagged multiple participants for unnecessary roughness, including Cooke and Matiscik for Jacksonville, and ejected Titans safety Mike Brown after he went at Matiscik when Matiscik took a shot at Chestnut.

Chestnut described Cooke’s comment as bewildering. “He said he would kill me,” he said, via Nick Suss of The Tennessean. The running back added: “Never heard that one before. That was strange. Especially a punter, you know. It was strange.”

“I’ve probably heard that said, I mean, 100 times from players in games, so whatever,” Jaguars head coach Liam Coen said Monday afternoon in a conference with reporters.

Cooke could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

In total, the AFC South rivals combined for 23 accepted penalties totaling 184 yards, reflecting the chaotic and chippy tone of the contest.

Despite the on-field tension, Cooke’s performance remained solid. He punted seven times for an average of 44.7 yards, all while navigating a backup snapper and aggressive rushes.

“Yeah, it is what it is. I mean, we know what it is, we know what games mean, and at this point every game matters,” Cooke said about staying focused on the field. “One, they’re a rush team anyways … so when you have D-Ham in there, you know they’re going to attack the A-gaps and it’s more of a ‘catch and get it out’ mentality.”

Cooke also said he enjoyed the physicality of the game. “I played football my whole life in positions and quarterbacks and defense and stuff, so I do like hitting people. But sometimes you like hitting a returner a little better than you like hitting the lead blocker, but I think he (Chestnut) got the best of me a little bit. But I’m always going to stand up, so it is what it is,” he said.

After the game, Coen acknowledged the emotions surrounding the long-snapping issues and Cooke’s actions, urging caution but understanding the intensity.

“There were some frustrations that were being built up with them rushing us the way they were with the long-snapper issue, and we thought we maybe were roughed or potentially roughed at one point,” Coen said. “I don’t know if it got called or not.”

Amid a tense game, Cooke emphasized that staying focused was key and that physical contact is part of what he enjoys about the game.