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Named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Jacksonville," Sam Kouvaris is the President and CEO of Pegasus Media Productions operating Samsportsline.com. From 1981-2018 Sam was the Sports Director/Managing Editor at WJXT-TV, Channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Jaguars Embarrassed By Raiders, 33-16

October 23, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It started as another lethargic effort by the Jaguars offense. A quick three and out after a nice stop by the defense turned into points for the Raiders, a FG by Sebastian Janikowski and a 3-0 Oakland lead. While Blake Bortles was off the mark throwing the football, he did run effectively on the next […]

Jaguars Win, Need Work

October 17, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

There’s a lot of talk when you listen to the Jaguars about bouncing back when things don’t go your way, starting fast and overcoming adversity. But in reality, the 2016 team hasn’t been capable of any of that. Losing the opener to Green Bay, the team let that defeat linger for a week and they […]

Jaguars Bye Week Approach Slightly Different

October 15, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

In his previous three years as the head coach of the Jaguars, Gus Bradley’s teams are 1-2 in the game immediately after the bye. But a truer picture shows his teams playing better after the bye week. The Jaguars won two of three last year after the trip to London and beat the Giants here […]

Jets Game, Training Camp, Jaguars Still Working

October 14, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s only two weeks or so into training camp but it’s already apparent things are going to be different on defense for the Jaguars this year. “It was good to see the high level of competition on both sides, going back and forth,” head coach Gus Bradley said after his team faced the New York […]

Jaguars Lose: Same Song, Wrong Notes

October 13, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s pretty simple in the NFL: if you’re quarterback isn’t playing well, you’re not going to win. For most of 2016 Blake *Bortles hasn’t played well and the Jaguars are 2-7. But despite his slump and the Jaguars record, Gus Bradley was plain when he was asked if Bortles should sit for a while and […]

Bradley: “It feels different out there”

October 11, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

With a week off, Gus Bradley and the Jaguars staff took some time to reflect on the first four games of the year. Bradley clearly likes the 2016 version of the Jaguars and is equally disappointed that they’ve started 1-3. “I think there are some areas that we are doing really well,” Gus said at […]

Sawgrass CC: No Issues

October 10, 2016/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

As one of the original communities in Ponte Vedra Beach, Sawgrass Country Club has seen all kinds of different weather. Its golf course sits virtually right on the ocean and was the original North Florida host for The Players in early March in the late ’70’s and ’80’s. The weather was so severe one over […]

PV Residents Say Beach Is Resilient

October 10, 2016/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

There’s a certain look to North Florida beaches. Wide and white, backed by sand dunes with a gradual slope to the ocean. Hurricane Matthew changed the topography of the beach, altering even the view from the road. “It’s pretty powerful, I’ve seen it maybe a dozen times in 30 years,” Bobby Weed, Ponte Vedra resident […]

Historic Ponte Vedra Inn And Club Survives Matthew

October 10, 2016/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

Originally built in 1928 the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club is one of the most historic places on Florida’s east coast. Selected to host the Ryder Cup in 1939 and withstanding Hurricane Dora’s wrath in 1964, the Inn was 80% full as Hurricane Matthew steamed towards Jacksonville’s beaches. “We informed our guests during the week […]

Jaguars: Two Weeks To Clean Things Up

October 4, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s apparent that Gus Bradley knows where the issues are on his team and will spend the next two weeks trying to fix them. Despite the much-needed win in London against the Colts Bradley’s post-game locker room speech was about “cleaning things up.” At one point in the second quarter the Jaguars had more penalty […]

Jaguars Beat Colts

October 2, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Neither team seemed to be able to get their footing, literally and figuratively in the first half at Wembley. The field was “heavy” and slick and the offenses of the Jaguars and the Colts couldn’t find a rhythm. For the Jaguars, a blocked pass by Dante Fowler fell into the arms of Yannick Ngakoue for […]

Jaguars/Colts: 4 To Watch 4

October 1, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Jaguars vs. Colts: 4 to watch 4 1. Stopping the run, running the ball In the loss to San Diego, it was apparent the Chargers were going to get things done from the first drive. San Diego ran the ball effectively and scored easily on their first drive taking a 7-0 lead. The Jaguars went […]

Bortles: “Stupid things, easily correctable”

September 29, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s an easy equation that leads to winning in London: Play better. In their first two games at Wembley against San Francisco and Dallas the Jaguars weren’t competitive. Last year’s win over Buffalo was a wild swing of emotions but showed the team on the rise. This year it’s a division matchup the Jaguars should […]

Jaguars Say London Is More Like A Home Game

September 29, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

When you step on the practice field in the middle of the week in the NFL you can tell what day it is, whether the team won or lost and usually who’s going to get a chance to play the following Sunday. For the Jaguars, this was a Wednesday practice, but different than last Wednesday’s […]

Bradley Knows Now Is The Time

September 28, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

When a coach looks at “game video” they look at it very specifically. When Gus Bradley breaks a game down he looks at the offense, defense, offensive line, etc. position by position looking for good, and not so good plays across the board. After the loss to the Ravens, Bradley chose 60 plays to show […]

Palmer’s Local Friends: “You’d have loved him even if he wasn’t a golfer”

September 28, 2016/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

It’s terrible that it takes the passing and mourning the loss of a mutual friend to reconnect you with people who were integral parts of your life at one point. They drift away for various reasons but in this case, the death of Arnold Palmer brought a lot of people back into my life who […]

Jaguars Squander Chances, Lose To Ravens

September 26, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It was a pretty forgettable first quarter for the Jaguars against the Ravens. Two first downs, two penalties and a bunch of punts that moved the field position around a bit. The Jaguars got a couple of breaks thanks to Ravens mistakes but they looked sluggish and out of sync for the 5th quarter in […]

Arnold Palmer: No One Like Him

September 26, 2016/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

You know people won’t live forever but with Arnold Palmer you thought that might be possible. He lived life with such passion and spirit yet with a humility and grace that never wavered. Palmer battled several illnesses over the past two years and died today at age 87 of heart complications. Usually tucked in the […]

Jaguars/Ravens: 4 To Watch 4

September 24, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

1. Attitude In the opening week against Green Bay, the season was full of promise. You could tell the week leading up to the game that the Jaguars had a new swagger, a new confidence in their roster and their ability. Despite losing to the Packers, they didn’t lose that in the days leading up […]

Bradley, Jaguars At A Crossroads

September 20, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Even in the aftermath, there wasn’t anything to like in the Jaguars 38-14 loss to the Chargers on Sunday. Just about every phase of the game broke down leaving many more questions than answers from the coaches and the players. Head Coach Gus Bradley’s assessment was about the same. “We talk about the truth. There […]

Jaguars/San Diego: 4 To Watch 4

September 18, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

1. Pass Rush Saying he didn’t let them ‘pin their ears back’ Gus Bradley gave the defensive line credit for their effort against Aaron Bradley last Sunday. Rodgers was able to sidestep the rush and get the ball down field, perhaps more effectively than any other quarterback in the league. This week, Phillip Rivers presents […]

Graeme Mcdowell Owns Restaurants, Wants To Play Golf

September 16, 2016/in Golf/by Sam Kouvaris

Dark woods, understated lighting and plenty of glass greet you as you step inside the new Nona Blue Tavern in Ponte Vedra. International and PGA Tour player Graeme McDowell and his two partners opened the doors to their second restaurant on Wednesday, donating a check for $15,000 to Tom Coughlin and the Jay Fund, money […]

After Further Review: I Feel A Little Better Because They Don’t

September 12, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

In recent years the breakdown of every Jaguars loss included some form of “We’re getting better, we’re getting closer” when you talked to the players and coaching staff. Not so after Sunday’s game against Green Bay. If there was one overriding emotion in the locker room it was anger. Even Head Coach Gus Bradley’s press […]

Exciting, Encouraged: Jaguars Still 0-1

September 11, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

“Start fast, finish fast,” is how Jaguars Head Coach Gus Bradley described his philosophy going into the 2016 season. That would be a departure from the previous three years where the Jaguars are 1-10 in September. “We’re very aware of that,” linebacker Paul Posluszny said this week. “Start fast, start fast has been something we’ve […]

Jaguars: 4 To Watch 4

September 10, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Jaguars: 4 to watch 4 1. Does the left side of the offensive line work? When he named Kelvin Beachum as the starting left tackle, Head Coach Gus Bradley admitted that it really wasn’t a competition. He awarded Beachum the job for his “body of work.” Yes, Beachum was an elite left tackle for the […]

Jaguars And Packers, More Similar Than You Think

September 8, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

On the surface it looks like a mismatch of a still-learning quarterback in the Jaguars Blake Bortles and a 12-year veteran Aaron Rodgers. But closer inspection shows a lot more similarities between the two quarterbacks and the receivers and running game they rely on. Bortles has spent the recent off-seasons working specifically on his quarterback […]

Jaguars Roster: Bigger, Faster, Stronger

September 6, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Looking over the 75 players who were vying for the 56 final roster spots on the 2016 Jaguars, Head Coach Gus Bradley declared this team “bigger, faster and stronger,” than teams he’s’ coached in Jacksonville in the past. “It’s an exciting time,” Bradley continued, talking about the cutting process. “We have some really good football […]

Plenty Of Jaguars Fans In London

September 1, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Each year when the NFL closes Regent Street in the shopping heart of London, they put on a fan fest that rivals the NFL Experience at the Super Bowl. There are obstacle courses, kicking demos (very popular) cheerleaders and a bunch of Jaguars fans. “We came over for a couple of weeks around the game […]

Are The Jaguars ‘Hoping” For Success

August 31, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

“I’m not a big fan of hope,” former Jaguars linebacker Tom McManus once said to me during an analysis of a game. Hope is a funny word when it comes to professional sports. On one hand fans can hope things go well. On the other, hope shouldn’t be a part of a coaching staff’s decision […]

Jaguars Know Bengals Effort Won’t Fly

August 30, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

I was surprised by Gus Bradley’s upbeat mood after the game Sunday night against Cincinnati. Sure, the second and third teams were competitive and won the game in the end but the starters looked miserable in the first half. Bradley is a very positive coach, so I asked him if it might be a good […]

Wake Up Call For Jaguars Vs. Bengals

August 29, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

If nothing else, the first half against the Bengals should have served as a giant wake up call for everybody associated with the Jaguars. “We played pretty bad at every position. When you play bad, you don’t score a lot of points,” quarterback Blake Bortles said in the second half. Players, coaches, front office people […]

Arrow Up On Jaguars

August 23, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Looking at the Jaguars through two preseason games and three weeks of training camp some things about the team are starting to take shape. 1) A year under his belt in the offensive system has helped Blake Bortles take command and get comfortable. They time spent in the offseason throwing to Allen Hurns and Allen […]

South End Zone Project: Khan Wants To Get It Right

August 20, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

In February of this year when the Jaguars made a big splash unveiling their Shipyards project vision; Jaguars Owner Shad Khan said a renovation of the South End Zone could be completed before the 2016 football season began. While the project went through various design stages and permitting processes, that timeline got pushed back with […]

Jaguars vs. SD: Nothing To Like

August 18, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Whatever we watched last week against the Packers we watched the opposite this week against the Chargers. From the opening snap, Phillip Rivers and San Diego did whatever they wanted against the Jaguars on offense and defense, looking dominant in a 38-7 rout. For all of the tenacity last week against the Packers, the Jaguars […]

Will Gus Bradley’s Coaching Experiment Work?

August 10, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

Just about all the talk, all the prep and all of they hype are behind them now. The re-tooled Jaguars will take the field on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers with new expectations. Last February I asked Owner Shad Khan what his expectation level would be for 2016 and he said, “Better than 5-11 […]

Bortles Better, Defense Better

August 3, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

He’s a third year pro but perhaps more importantly, it’s Blake Bortles’ second year in the same offensive system. It’s allowed the Jaguars quarterback to be more in command and take a bigger leadership role. “Yeah, I think so, definitely. If I wasn’t then it would be pretty disappointing,” he said after Tuesday’s practice in […]

Stadium Improvements March On

July 31, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

As the focus for the Jaguars concentrates on their improvement on the field, the backdrop at the stadium continues to be hammering and building as workers race against the calendar to have improvements done before the season starts. “That extra week in August because our first preseason game is on the road is a big […]

FSU/Boise St. To Play Here In 2019

July 29, 2016/in College Football/by Sam Kouvaris

As they continue to work toward bringing in “neutral site” college football games. JaxSports has found a willing partner in Florida State University. FSU is scheduled to play Boise State in a home-and-home series in 2019 and 2020 but talks are progressing to bring that game to Jacksonville to open the season. “Florida State is […]

Air2G2 Local Company Making Good

July 28, 2016/in Featured/by Sam Kouvaris

As a concept, it seems pretty simple: All living things need air to grow. But for Glen Black, it was a brainstorm in college that led to a growing business based on that concept. Black is the President of Air2G2 by GT Air Inject, a Jacksonville company with connections all around the world. While a […]

Jaguars “Fact Finding” vs. Bengals

July 28, 2016/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam Kouvaris

It might have been a “game week” of preparation but even as hard as they try, the players and coaches admit the third preseason game is different than the rest but still nothing like the regular season. “Fact finding” is how Head Coach Gus Bradley characterized his goal for Sunday’s game against Cincinnati. The Jaguars, […]

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