{"id":324624,"date":"2025-12-01T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:36:07","slug":"jaguars-coen-says-cookes-alleged-threat-normal-trash-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324624\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Coen says Cooke&#8217;s alleged threat normal trash talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/i\/columnists\/full\/dirocco_michael.png&amp;h=80&amp;w=80&amp;scale=crop\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael DiRoccoDec 1, 2025, 01:52 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN and the Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca6fb778-cbf6-d9a3-3e93-01230335fcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/jax\/jacksonville-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars<\/a> punter <a data-player-guid=\"0b789c14-3fb3-4430-5c2d-4108725cdccd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3115480\/logan-cooke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooke<\/a> allegedly saying he would kill <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0a0aea59-9a5e-01b3-57a3-0151cf4bf393\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ten\/tennessee-titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4367567\/julius-chestnut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Julius Chestnut<\/a> during a skirmish in Sunday&#8217;s game is normal trash talk between players, Jaguars head coach Liam Coen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve probably heard that said, I mean, 100 times from players in games, so whatever,&#8221; Coen said Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Chestnut made the allegation in the locker room after the Jaguars&#8217; 25-3 victory at Nissan Stadium. He said it happened during a skirmish following a fourth-quarter punt, and the two players were immediately surrounded by teammates. Jaguars long-snapper <a data-player-guid=\"f2753143-b43d-916d-7c5d-f5f1361ad93c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3928931\/ross-matiscik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Matiscik<\/a> grabbed a Titans player and threw him to the ground during the altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>When it was over, Cooke and Matiscik were penalized for unnecessary roughness. Tennessee cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"c57cf53f-037a-4a87-24aa-e45a55dcc600\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4567399\/kaiir-elam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiir Elam<\/a> and safety <a data-player-guid=\"73c83f3f-7791-1b5e-d486-d9faad3b3995\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4244310\/mike-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Brown<\/a> also were penalized for unnecessary roughness and Brown was ejected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what I did [to earn the penalty],&#8221; Cooke said after the game. &#8220;I was trying to take up for my boy Dewey [safety <a data-player-guid=\"34f896c4-ad49-013d-d9b6-47096cfb89e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3918331\/andrew-wingard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Wingard<\/a>]. It is what it is. We live with each other, we ride with each other. That&#8217;s all it is. So, play football long enough, football stuff happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chestnut, who blocked Cooke during Titans returner Chimere Dike&#8217;s 47-yard return of a previous punt, said after the game he was &#8220;just trying to play hard, and he came up to me and said he was going to kill me. So, I don&#8217;t know what made him do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; That was surprising to me. I ain&#8217;t never seen nothing like that before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoDec 1, 2025, 01:52 PM ET CloseMichael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-324624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}