While linebacker Telvin Smith is demanding that his peers play better and head coach Doug Marrone is openly saying the team is bad until it isn’t, Dante Fowler Jr. is busy telling the world that he will break out in his third season for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
As noted by the above-linked article by Jeremy Bergman, this self-built hype is coming off a season where Fowler said he would ‘turn it loose’ and didn’t manage to do so. In fact, Fowler was outplayed by 2016 third-round rookie Yannick Ngakoue, who led the team in sacks and looked far more disruptive than Fowler.