JACKSONVILLE – He is really good and really consistent.

Logan Cooke has been these things for a while now. At the end of last month, he is something else – something he finds hard to believe: The longest tenured Jaguars player.

Cooke, a seventh-year veteran and one of the NFL’s top punters, joined senior writer John Oehser for this 2024 Week 11 O-Zone Podcast. He discussed several topics, including how he feels about having been in the organization longer than any other active player.

That became the case when the Jaguars traded left tackle Cam Robinson — a second-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft — to the Minnesota Vikings in late October. The Jaguars selected Cooke in Round 7 of the 2018 NFL Draft.

“I guess I’m next; that’s how it works,” Cooke said with a laugh before adding seriously, “It’s a blessing. I never thought I’d be here, so to be here this long has been cool.”

Cooke, who is averaging a career-high 51.4 yards per punt this season, has been one of the NFL’s best players at his position for much of his career. But he said such longevity might have seemed unlikely early in his career.

After Cooke struggled in a few early games as a rookie, he was walking into a practice when he saw three punters walking down the hall with scouts toward a midweek workout.

“I was so angry,” he said. “I was like, ‘what is this?’ I remember (then-long snapper) Carson Tinker telling me, ‘Hey, you’re going to be here as long as you’re going to be here whether it’s another week or 10 more years , so relax.’

“He doesn’t even remember saying it. But it stuck with me. I ended up playing OK and we’ve figured it out a little bit since them.”

Cooke had a career-best 73-yard punt against the Green Bay Packers on November 3. That punt went out of bounds at the Packers 2, and Cooke called it the best punt of his career.

“I’ll never try to get that one up,” he said with a laugh.

Cooke also discussed the Jaguars’ approach moving forward despite a 2-8 record — and why the team hasn’t finished what has been a frustrating season so far.

“I hate to rewind all the time, but looking back at 2022, it’s pretty much the same team,” Cooke said, referring to the ’22 AFC South champions. “We were 3-7 at one point that season. We came back from what looked like a 2018-2021 type of season and turned it around. We’ve seen it.

“There’s still a lot of guys who remember where we’ve been and where we ended up. There’s still a lot of that.”

To listen to the entire O-Zone Podcast with Cooke, click HERE.