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ESPN poll: Jaguars rank as fourth-least desirable team in NFL

The Worldwide Leader has released another anonymous poll and reported that players don't want to play in Jacksonville. Except, they kind of do.

By Ryan Day
Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports

According to ESPN's latest NFL Nation Confidential poll, the Jacksonville Jaguars are one of the least desirable teams to play for in the NFL.

ESPN asked over 100 players to fill in the blank:

"The only way I'd play for [team name] is if they doubled my salary."

Of the 82 responses, 23% responded with the Oakland Raiders as their answer, 19% said the Buffalo Bills, 16% answered the Cleveland Browns, 9% said the Jaguars, and 6% said the Green Bay Packers.

So... the Jaguars are the fourth-least desirable team in the NFL? That might mean something if the Packers weren't right behind them as the fifth-least desirable team.

Also, newly signed running back Toby Gerhart said in a May 21 interview that he talked with a current member of the Jaguars and that conversation helped convince him to come to Jacksonville:

But, hey, this is ESPN we're talking about. They're the same people who included Blake Bortles in a "Starting Slow" list after his first preseason game in which he went 7-for-11 for 117 yards. Oh, and three of those four incompletions were drops by receivers.

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