Podcasts about Jacksonville, Florida

Most of what plays on this page is argument about the Jacksonville Jaguars, and much of it keeps going back to Buffalo. Duval Daily notes that the Jaguars averaged 6.7 yards per carry against the Bills and still ran only 23 times. The host argues that Sean McDermott chose to defend the pass, that the Bills had no answer for the run, and that Liam Coen did not pivot to it well enough. On Locked On Jaguars, Tony Wiggins says one contested tip ball showed why defensive depth matters against Josh Allen. Away from football, the city talks about itself through people: a salon career, a music career, a mothers' group, a credit union lender on PPP loans. City hall is mostly absent.

What Jacksonville is

Jacksonville sits on the St. Johns River in northeast Florida, a few miles from the Atlantic and not far south of the Georgia line. The city and Duval County merged their governments in 1968. That makes Jacksonville Florida's most populous city and one of the largest by land area in the country, and it is why so many of these shows say Duval when they mean the city. It is a Navy town and a port, the surrounding region goes by the First Coast, and the Jaguars have played there since 1995.

Contracts, depth and the draft

Locked On Jaguars takes the team one name at a time, with titles on Grant Udinski, Davon Hamilton, Arik Armstead and Travis Hunter. In the clips Tony Wiggins argues that no place on the team should be handed out. Competition cannot be chosen, he says, it "has to choose itself", and the words he leans on are organic and demonstrated performance. He wants a corner brought in to compete with Christian Braswell and a safety to challenge Eric Murray. Another clip sizes up Mason Riker as a possible third pass rusher on length, twitch, speed and positional versatility.

The Duval Dive, from Kyle Nash, covers the same ground with the figures attached. It sounds like two well-informed fans whose loose, quick conversation keeps sliding into front-office analysis. One clip frames an offer sheet for Jake Bobo around $5.5 million, 4.5 million guaranteed and a possible $7 million max. In another, the hosts work out that a player in the last year of his contract could be re-signed cheaply a few games into the season, or bring back a compensatory pick if he leaves. Then one of them breaks off to rule that the BTJ bounce back is a comeback, not a breakout. Another clip argues the Jaguars may draft for power, not just speed, along the offensive line. Its titles track a single game from "Jaguars-Browns Week 1 Preview, Keys, and Score Predictions" through "Jaguars vs. Browns LIVE Halftime Report" to "Jaguars DESTROY Browns in Week 1 Postgame Reaction".

Duval Daily, from GenJag, gives its titles to the draft, from mock-draft reactions to sleeper defensive tackles. One clip argues the Jaguars are more likely to trade pick 56 than make a selection there.

Trevor Lawrence, and a season told in titles

Dunn and Drew describes itself as two Jaguars fans, a bar in Springfield and ten wings each, with Eric Dunn and Andrew Willis talking Jaguars football. Its titles follow the season from "Jaguars catch FIRE before HUGE GAME vs. Broncos" through "PLAYOFF MACHINE! Who will the 12-4 Jaguars play in the playoffs?" to "Jaguars shock the world, lose to the Bills | Recapping an insane season". A clip from "Trevor Lawrence is the most polarizing player in the league" makes the case that Lawrence has throws that look like the best quarterback in football, then three or four that do not. In another, Lynn Jones describes a viral Jaguars press-conference moment as a nine-day whirlwind that reached ESPN, the NFL and Africa.

Radio, and the high school game

1010 XL Jax Sports Radio bills itself as the flagship station of the Jacksonville Jaguars and home of the Florida Gators. Its episode list reads like a program log: "Edwin Watts Golf Hour 4-18-26", "Outdoors Show 4-18-26", "Open Gym w/Rj Saunders 04-19-26". The clips that play here are about national sports. Rick Ballou, hurt by the loss of Garrett Anderson, argues that Anderson and his 2,529 hits make him one of the more underrated players since the turn of the millennium. He adds that only 298 major leaguers have reached 2,000 hits, five of them active.

The most local sports talk on the page comes from #LiveStream: A High School 9:12 Podcast, made by a Jacksonville nonprofit set up to guide high school students and athletes, in episodes from 2019. In the Ryan Green episode, a guest long in radio remembers calling Mandarin, the defending state champion, against Atlantic Coast for Channel 4. The game was part of the Publix Bold City Showcase, which drew 21,000 people to San Jose Boulevard. Elsewhere Sheldon Hill cites 7,000 deaths a year from sudden cardiac arrest among 6- to 18-year-olds. Ryan Riggs points out that coaches and admissions officers can see what students post online, and that parents are watched too.

Careers, mothers and loans

The rest of what plays here is guest conversation, and the shows differ mostly in who they ask.

Hometown Jax asks about careers. Its titles range across local newsrooms, football, finance and music, and the clips stay close to the turns in a working life. In "The Business of Beauty: Stefani Grant’s Story", Grant leaves the IRS at 29 after seeing an Aveda Institute commercial and pays for school with her tax refund. During COVID she learns that clients wanted her work, not necessarily the salon where she worked. Around that story come a six-hundred-dollar Dyson air wrap that proves a bit of a gimmick and a River City Live appearance spent dispelling TikTok hair hacks. "The Jingle Queen of Jacksonville: Deborah McDuffie’s Legendary Music Career" includes a story of B.B. King arriving two hours late to a Las Vegas commercial session with barbecue sauce on his baby-blue suit.

Jacksonville Momcast asks mothers, and its titles are mostly names: "Penny's Pixies", "Shandi Lynn Photo", "The Giving Closet Project". In "Jax Moms of Babies & Mom Made Jax", a guest talks about the group she runs. She says that for Jacksonville "this was something that was needed" and that "it's meant to reach people in a season". She adds that it is a lot of work for one person, even with friends in the group helping. The same episode has Morgan on spending hundreds of dollars on ice packs during postpartum recovery. The episode with author Jennifer Nestor turns to her next middle-grade novel, about body image, friendship, crushes and softball.

Startup Grind Jacksonville FL turns the questions to money. Its titles are fireside chats and themed months such as "Soulful Sunday Conversations Series #SGBlackLeaders Month with Dr. Wendy Norfleet", and its clips are about PPP loans. Jenny Vipperman, VyStar Credit Union's chief lending officer, says VyStar helped 3,100 small businesses with over $110 million in PPP loans, averaging $35,000 each. She also explains how the loans can be forgiven when businesses meet the requirements. Congressman Al Lawson talks through the $377 billion set aside so that small businesses, not Wall Street, would benefit from the stimulus.

Where to start

• Contract and draft arguments with the figures attached: The Duval Dive.
• The case that every place on the team must be earned: Locked On Jaguars, with Tony Wiggins.
• The case that the Jaguars should have run the ball against Buffalo: Duval Daily.
• Jacksonville people rather than football: Hometown Jax, then Jacksonville Momcast.

The Jacksonville feed on this page plays clips from these shows.