{"id":417460,"date":"2025-12-01T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417460\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:29:17","slug":"tennessee-player-says-jaguars-punter-threatened-to-kill-me-during-titans-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417460\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee player says Jaguars punter threatened to \u2018kill me\u2019 during Titans loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Tennessee Titans running back Julius Chestnut said Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke said he was going to kill him during Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Chestnut blocked Cooke as the punter got a leg up to trip Titans returner Chimere Dike at the end of a 47-yard return with 14:06 left. Cooke was hurt and evaluated for a concussion before returning to punt at the end of the Jaguars\u2019 next series.<\/p>\n

\"TennesseeTennessee Titans running back Julius Chestnut says Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke threatened to kill him during the AFC South game. Cooke wasn’t specifically asked about Chestnut’s comments after the loss.(AP Photo\/George Walker IV\/Gary McCullough)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Titans<\/a>\u00a0then had another scuffle at the end of Dike\u2019s 13-yard return with 11:49 remaining, with Chestnut and Cooke squaring off.<\/p>\n

Officials huddled and handed out a pair of unnecessary roughness penalties to each team, and Cooke and long snapper Ross Matiscik were flagged for the Jags. Titans safety Mike Brown was ejected.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars went on to\u00a0a 25-3 win<\/a>. The AFC South teams combined for 23 accepted penalties for a total of 184 yards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just trying to play hard, and he came up to me and said he was going to kill me,\u201d\u00a0Chestnut said<\/a>. \u201cSo I don\u2019t know what made him do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chestnut said he never got an explanation for why Cooke was so mad that he \u201ccame at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was surprising to me. I ain\u2019t never seen nothing like that before,\u201d Chestnut said.<\/p>\n

Cooke was not asked specifically after the game about what Chestnut said the punter told him. A message was left Sunday night seeking comment from the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Cooke said right after the loss that he likes hitting people. He said Chestnut got the best of him in an \u201ceventful\u201d game.<\/p>\n

Cooke talked with the referee at halftime after punting from his own end zone late in the second quarter with\u00a0a backup long snapper.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI might have said some things that sounded rude, so I wanted to go clear the air,\u201d Cooke said of his talk with the referee. \u201cI don\u2019t like people having grudges against me. So kind of telling him the situation and also find out his take on what happened on that play in the end zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jaguars coach Liam Coen said he\u2019d like Cooke to be smarter when it comes to his flag for unnecessary roughness, but he was proud of his players for competing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere 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,\u201d Coen said. \u201dI don\u2019t know if it got called or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Sports Writer Mark Long in Jacksonville contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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