The Jacksonville Jaguars are set to play the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. Still, the biggest talking point ahead of this game is the internal strife the Jaguars are experiencing due to the bizarre and excessive fines the front office slap on their players. Cornerback A.J. Bouye has spoken out against the team's policy that is definitely affecting player morale.
He said that he was fined $10,000 for missing a mandatory yoga session, but his fine is minuscule compared to the fines his other teammates got. According to Pro Football Talk's Charean Williams, Bouye and a lot of other teams find this move as unnecessary.
″I know what work bests for me as a player, and they didn’t want to hear that,″ Bouye said, via John Reid of the Jacksonville Times-Union. ″I remember one time I had an injury, and I got a little work done here, but I wanted to do all my work in my [hometown], and they were kind of getting on me.
″You never really know what you’re going to get fined for until it happens. You’ve got to find a way to appeal it and hope it won’t happen again. I’m just finding out about who got fined all that money. I hate that it happened. People laugh because it doesn’t happen anywhere else. They just laugh at us when it happens.″
It's been a strange situation for the Jaguars, and the team has since said that they will change their ways and fire the people responsible for the fines. However, the damage has been done: public opinion on the team can be found in the gutter, and the NFLPA is warning players about signing with the Jaguars in the offseason.
It is a huge PR nightmare for the team that will require a lot of effort to fix. They may lose what little talent left they have in the offseason.
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