{"id":656600,"date":"2026-01-05T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656600\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:04:13","slug":"ron-desantis-deems-jacksonville-jaguars-very-dangerous-as-nfl-playoffs-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656600\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis deems Jacksonville Jaguars ‘very dangerous’ as NFL playoffs begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Governor likes what he sees from Trevor Lawrence’s team.<\/p>\n

Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a> is enthusiastic about the AFC South champion Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> and their chances in the playoffs this weekend and potentially beyond.<\/p>\n

Ahead of their tilt Sunday against the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, DeSantis said the \u201cvery dangerous\u201d team could go far this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Jags are playing as good as anyone. It\u2019s been really exciting to see that turnaround. I know people up here are going to be very excited to see what happens in the playoffs,\u201d DeSantis said outside an immigration prison in Baker County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to have to play them if I were one of these other teams. I think they\u2019re very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 13-4 Jaguars are the No. 3 seed this year, behind the second-seeded New England Patriots and the top-seeded Denver Broncos. Jacksonville did not play New England during the regular season, but dominated Denver during a game at Mile High Stadium.<\/p>\n

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DeSantis has been public about his sports fandom since becoming Governor, and has often found ways to discuss the Jaguars along the way, including telling a crowd in Iowa in 2024 that the team was \u201cgetting their butts kicked<\/a>\u201d in a season finale game against Tennessee.<\/p>\n

He also has told the story of being in attendance at Jacksonville\u2019s last home playoff game against the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, which featured a miracle comeback by Jacksonville, though he said at one point he stuck around for the whole game and at another point that he left at halftime because \u201cthe Jags were getting killed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Governor likes what he sees from Trevor Lawrence’s team. Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis is enthusiastic about the AFC South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[53,7,125,6,84,57537],"class_list":["post-656600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-football","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-ron-desantis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115844052791854624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}