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Tom Coughlin wants no part of the spotlight this week.He has declined several interview requests as Jacksonville prepares to open the season against Coughlin’s former team Zach Brown Jersey , the New York Giants. Coughlin is entering his second year as Jacksonville’s executive vice president of football operations, working mostly behind the scenes.Coughlin’s sure to get extra attention Sunday when he faces the Giants for the first time since his resignation as head coach in January 2016.“I don’t spend any time thinking about that,” Coughlin said in April, the day after the NFL schedule was released. “We knew the teams we were going to play. We didn’t know the order, so to go to New York for the opening of the season, it’ll be an exciting atmosphere obviously. It’s Opening Day, so everybody will be excited, everybody will look forward to the opportunity to go to New York and play against a very good football team.”More Jacksonville Jaguars newsJaguars expect DE Yannick Ngakoue’s holdout to be short-livedJaguars rookie safety Zedrick Woods submits retirement paperworkJalen Ramsey says Jaguars don’t plan to give him contract extension this seasonJaguars sign former UCF running back Taj McGowan for added depthJaguars QB Nick Foles to miss OTAs for undisclosed ‘personal reason’The Jaguars enter the season with arguably the highest expectations in franchise history, and the 72-year-old Coughlin has played a significant role in the team’s rise from perennial loser to preseason favorite in the AFC South.Coughlin’s presence and prowess reshaped every aspect of the team, far beyond setting the clocks five minutes ahead.Discipline, accountability, legitimacy, Coughlin brought all of them with him when he returned to the team he helped build in 1995. His reputation was established in Jacksonville, where he was the franchise’s first head coach (1995-2002) and the One Voice who made every decision — from who threw the passes to who ran the salary cap to what color paint was on the walls.His resume, though, was enhanced in New York thanks to two Super Bowl victories in 12 seasons.As the league changed, so did Coughlin. He became less of an unbending taskmaster Kyler Murray Jersey , focusing more on Xs and Os than off-the-field nuances. His fingerprints remain on the Giants roster even though he’s been gone 2 ½ years.“Some franchises haven’t won a Super Bowl, and he helped this franchise win two,” first-year Giants coach Pat Shurmur said. “He was here for 12 years. A lot of the people here worked with him his whole time here.”Shurmur reached out to Coughlin “just to gain some perspective” shortly after getting the job in January.“I admire him in a lot of ways for who he is as a man and what he’s done as a coach,” said Shurmur, who is planning to attend Coughlin’s charity gala later this month in New York City. “A lot of what I know about Tom I get a chance to hear about here frequently.”Giants quarterback Eli Manning expects to chat with Coughlin on the field before kickoff.“Obviously still have a great relationship with coach Coughlin and cherish the time that we had and appreciate those 12 years of him being my head coach,” Manning said. “But besides that, I look at this game and say it’s the Giants against the Jaguars, and I’m trying to get our offense prepared to go against that defense.”Coughlin and Marrone have an old-school team constructed around one of the league’s best defenses , a unit that returns 12 of its top 14 players and expects to carry the Jags back to the playoffs.It’s also part of the featured matchup Sunday: Manning, star receiver Odell Beckham and rookie running back Saquon Barkley against Jacksonville’s vaunted front, All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey and two of the fastest linebackers in the league.“It’s more of us living up to what we expect,” Jaguars Pro Bowl linebacker Telvin Smith said. “Even when the show gets started, a lot of people’s narratives might change. But ours is not; ours is going to stay the same. … We expect to go out and be great and dominate games.”It starts Sunday in New York, against the Giants and in conjunction with Coughlin’s under-the-radar return.“Definitely we’d like to win this game just regardless,” Jaguars All-Pro defensive end Calais Campbell said. “But it’d feel even better for TC, and we’ll try to get it done for him.” WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s high-profile attorneys normally don’t handle second-degree misdemeanors like soliciting a prostitute Byron Murphy Jersey , but that’s only part of what he needs them to do.Their main job is to make sure the public never sees videos that police say show Kraft twice paying for sex at a Florida massage parlor. On Friday, they will try to persuade Judge Leonard Hanser that police violated the 77-year-old’s federal and state rights when they secretly installed video cameras at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. They want the videos thrown out and sealed.“Law enforcement had no basis to suspect anything more than a run-of-the-mill misdemeanor that has never been understood, in any corner of the United States, to warrant the eye-popping invasions that occurred here,” attorney Jack Goldberger wrote in court documents. “Because we do not live in a police state and our government answers to the rule of law, suppression of the illegally-obtained evidence is the correct and essential remedy.”In addition to Goldberger, who also represents billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Kraft also has William Burck, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who represented former White House Counsel Don McGahn during the Mueller investigation; and New York-based Alex Spiro, who has represented high-profile athletes and celebrities, including Jay-Z, Mick Jagger and former Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted of murder and later killed himself in prison.Palm Beach County prosecutors have replied in court documents that Kraft had no reasonable expectation of privacy at the spa in part because it was not his home or property, and that the felony case of prostitution against spa owners includes enough grounds to obtain warrants for search and surveillance of the spa.David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor not connected to the case Andy Isabella Jersey , said Kraft’s attorneys are “raising the appropriate arguments,” but prosecutors will have a chance to rebut them in court. He said prosecutors will be able to raise the “good faith” exception to save the video — that officers had legitimate reasons to believe the warrant and their actions were legal.He also said Hanser will rely on what the officers and the judge who issued the search warrant believed in January about the possibility of human trafficking, not what is known now.Prosecutors say Kraft, whose estimated worth is $6 billion, twice visited Orchids of Asia in January, hours before flying to Kansas City to see his Patriots defeat the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game. Two weeks later, they won the Super Bowl, their sixth under his ownership.Kraft and 25 other men were charged in February with paying for sex acts. Some have accepted plea deals. Those who haven’t would benefit if Kraft succeeds in getting his videos thrown out, as their attorneys could cite the ruling. Prosecutors originally said the spa might be involved in human trafficking, but have retracted that.Kraft has pleaded not guilty, but released a statement apologizing to Patriots fans and others for his actions. He is not expected to be in court.Kraft’s attorneys are attacking the warrant on several grounds:— That both the U.S. and Florida constitutions allow the secret installation of hidden cameras only under extraordinary circumstances and that Florida law specifically says secret audio recordings can only be made for serious crimes such as murder and kidnapping, not prostitution. They argue the threshold for video recordings would be even higher.— That Jupiter police conducted an illegal search without a warrant when they enlisted a state health inspector to visit the spa and report back what she saw inside. They used her report to help get the warrant allowing the cameras’ installation. Weinstein said prosecutors will get an opportunity to show this wasn’t subterfuge.— That detectives misled the judge who authorized the cameras’ installation by saying the health inspector had found evidence of human trafficking, but supplied no evidence such as photos of clothing or beds or other evidence that women were forced to stay there. They say detectives also failed to establish why more typical investigative methods such as sending in an undercover officer to see if he was offered sex for money wouldn’t have sufficed. Weinstein said the latter is “perhaps their weakest argument.” He said some of those techniques had been used and others would have failed to identify all the conspiracy’s participants or to gather the evidence needed.— That the cameras weren’t necessary, as detectives already had ample evidence of prostitution at the spa before they were installed, including towels pulled from the trash and confessions of customers who had been stopped after leaving.— That the police and prosecutors’ initial suggestions that Orchids of Asia may have been part of a human trafficking ring were an effort to “spin a yarn about how their investigation had supposedly targeted high-level human trafficking rather than low-level prostitution.”Weinstein said whoever loses is certain to appeal Hanser’s ruling to higher courts.