The Jacksonville Jaguars have slipped a bit after a hot 4-1 start to the 2025 season. They’ve lost the last two games and have looked alarmingly bad in doing so.
While both sides of the ball need to pick it up, defensive end Travon Walker knows that the Jaguars’ defense needs to right the ship and finish the season strong.
“Yeah, it’s not always about how you start, but it’s about how you finish,” Walker said this week. “Like we got 10 weeks left of the regular season and we’re going to go out there and make the best of all 10 of these games.”
The former first-overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft didn’t play against the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 5 with a wrist injury and was thusly limited the following two games. In those three games, the defense has given up an alarming 83 points.
Travon Walker thinks the defense needs to just follow the game plan
Through seven weeks, the 4-3 Jaguars’ defense ranks 18th in the NFL in points per game and 23rd in yards per game. Considering the struggles of the offense, they’ll need to be better than that, even if they are in a forgiving division (minus the Indianapolis Colts right now).
“Personally like I say, just continuously stick together and buy into the plan as far as what the coaches give us throughout the game, throughout the week,” Walker said. “And just go out there and execute, do our job. Everybody has to look deep down inside and just continuously improve ourselves individually, and then come together collectively as a defense to execute the play calls.”
Walker, who has two sacks in six games this year, was asked if the players were getting frustrated.
“I wouldn’t say it’s frustrating, obviously, because the way I look at it’s still early in the season,” Walker said. “Like I say, we’re going into a bye Week now, so it’s time for us to just take a little step back and as we go into this bye Week and observe all the things that we potentially made those same mistakes on and just try our best not to make those same mistakes over again.”
Owner Shad Khan agrees with Travon Walker
Jaguars owner Shad Khan spoke to the media before the game in London against the Rams. He echoed much about Walker said when it comes to finishing the season.
“Not too long ago, a couple of years ago, we were 8-3 then we know what happened,” Khan said, referring to 2023. “There are many other precedents like that. nWe have to feel good. We have to be confident. [But] very important we don’t lose track of the next 11 games.
“Winning is fun. You win, you don’t want the week to be over. You lose, you want to just hit delete right now other than you want to learn from why you lost and the correction.
“So, winning is fabulous, but it’s like football: You have to play to the whistle and just don’t get tendinitis patting yourself on the back. We have to enjoy the moment, absolutely, but don’t get too happy and content with it.”
The Jaguars will use the bye week to start reducing mistakes and mental errors. Hopefully Walker can get healthy and start producing because they absolutely need him.
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