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Jacksonville Jaguars is a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They currently are the members of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They along with the Carolina Panthers, joined the NFL as 1995 expansion teams. The Jaguars gained a high-profile investor when former NFL star player Deron Cherry signed on as a limited partner. In 1995, along with the Carolina Panthers, the Jacksonville Jaguars entered the NFL as the first expansion teams in almost 20 years. On an interesting side note, their fellow second-year NFC expansion team named the Carolina Panthers also got to the NFC Championship, where they lost 30-13 to the Green Bay Packers. In that year, Super Bowl XXXI almost became an all-expansion team Super Bowl.

In December 1998, the Jaguars won the AFC Central Division and became the first NFL expansion team to make the playoffs three times in its first four seasons of play. The 1999 season was quite a success for the Jacksonville Jaguars as they compiled a record of 14-2, which was the best regular season record not only in the NFL for that year, but currently in franchise history.The years 2000-2002 all featured losing records. Coach Tom Coughlin was quoted as saying his 2002 squad had less talent on it than the original 1995 expansion team roster, a statement that many analysts agreed with. Coughlin would coach that team to 6 wins but he was also to blame for the team's roster and salary cap issues because he doubled as the team's general manager.

James Harris is noted for his "Best Player Available" and his 2003 and 2004 draft classes are already highly regarded. The 2004 season, celebrated as the 10th season of the Jaguars' existence, resulted in a winning record of 9-7 with road victories against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field as well as the Indianapolis Colts at the RCA Dome. The Jaguars' defense was a strong suit, as it included the 2 of the team's Pro Bowl players, defensive tackles Marcus Stroud and John Henderson. Byron Leftwich also enjoyed a solid year in 2004, helped by strong performances from holdovers Fred Taylor and Jimmy Smith.

As of the beginning of the 2006 NFL season, the Jaguars are one of three franchises, along with New Orleans, and Houston, to have never played in a Super Bowl or NFL championship game.The 2005 Jaguars' hoped to challenge the Colts for the division title. While the Jaguars managed to win key games in 2005, 9 of their final 10 games were played against opponents with losing records. The Jaguars ended the season in embarrassing fashion, losing 28-3 to two-time defending champion New England Patriots on January 7, 2006 in the 2005 season's AFC Wild Card Playoff round. In the 2006 NFL Draft, the Jaguars used their first pick on UCLA TE Marcedes Lewis.