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FINAL TUNE-UP
The Jaguars wrap the preseason with
last look at players on the roster bubble
By: J.P. Shadrick
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JACKSONVILLE – Tonight the 2019 NFL
Preseason ends, but the fi nal roster decisions
are only just beginning.
After last week’s game in which the majority of
front-line Jaguars players got their only work
of the preseason, many fans seem happy with
what they saw – still plenty to work on, but a lot
to be excited about entering the 2019 season.
Tonight’s game is about the depth of the 2019
Jacksonville Jaguars.
There is a stark reality that comes after
tonight’s game. After this game, NFL rosters
must be trimmed from 90 players to 53,
meaning 37 players from 32 NFL teams will be
cut – 1,184 players total. Many of those players
have spent the entire offseason with the team,
meaning they have been in spring strength-
and-conditioning workouts, organized team
activities, mandatory minicamp and now a
grueling, hot training camp and preseason.
As he explains annually on cut day, Head Coach
Doug Marrone has been on both sides of the
table – as a coach releasing a player, and as a
player getting released.
“Every time this week comes up, every year
for me it’s hard,” Marrone said at the end of
the preseason in 2018. “I’ve been one of those
guys that has been cut a bunch of times. I
kind of look back on how I felt. I felt like I did
everything, busted my butt like a lot of guys on
this team did.”