JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Each Thursday I’ll post an item in which five players answer a question that has nothing to do with football. Hopefully it's a way for you to get to know the players a little better. Some weeks it'll be a fun question. Others it'll be a quirky or off-beat question. There also will be serious questions mixed in as well.

This week's question, with a Halloween theme: What are you afraid of?

C Luke Bowanko

"Butterflies."

Say that again?

"Butterflies."

Really?

"I don’t know if I’m afraid of butterflies. I just don’t really understand them."

I don’t know what that means.

"Think about a butterfly or a moth or any of those things. They just, like, kind of float. They don’t fly. If they fly, I should be able to fly. Just the whole idea of a butterfly kind of freaks me out. I don’t like them. I’m not like scared of them or anything."

So what are you scared of?

"I’m scared of going bald, because my head’s too big to be bald. So that’d be a tough reality for me. I think Zane [Beadles] shares in that belief because he’s kind of in the mid-life crisis with his hair right now. I think that’s my biggest fear right now.

"Snakes. I know Florida’s got some snakes. That’s pretty jacked up. I don’t need those in my life. They can just hang out there they hang out and I’ll hang out where I can hang out."

QB Stephen Morris

"I hate roaches. I’m scared of them things.”"

Really?

"I’m scared of roaches. I hate them."

Why?

"They’re just really scary."

Big ones or little ones?

"The ones that fly."

Palmetto bugs.

"They’re Palmetto bugs? You know the name? Those are the ones. They’ve got that sound when they’re buzzing -- zzzzzzzzzzzzz. It’s like, ‘Oh, where is this thing?’"

It is freaky when you try to kill them and they take off flying.

"And then they’re gone. And then after that I can’t be in that room. I’ve got to leave. Like, I feel like I need to call the exterminator or something and come handle this one roach. If I have shoes on, all right, cool, I’m going to try to stomp on it. If I don’t, I’ve got to get out of there."

I just killed one near the media room this week.

"You messed me up with that one. You messed me up. But I always got shoes on so I can get them. If I don’t get it the first time: ‘You survived buddy. You lived another day.’"

WR Allen Hurns

"Like an animal?"

Anything.

"I’d probably say snakes. That’s about it."

Why? Did you have a bad experience with one as a kid?

"No. I watch a lot of TV and I’ve seen the crazy things that they do, like how fast they can react."

Come across any recently?

"I’ve seen a couple snakes when I was down at Miami because you’ve got a big lake over there and walking by I some kind of down by the rocks. Other than that I haven’t been real close to one."

So you don’t go to the reptile exhibit at the zoo?

"Oh, no. Not at all."

TE Nic Jacobs

"Open water."

Why?

"Because you don’t know what’s under the water."

Did you see the movie ‘Open Water?’

"I have never seen the movie. I would say [being in the] open water would be like the same as the movie ‘Gravity.' Just, like, being out somewhere and you’re helpless pretty much. I don’t know how else to put it. You’re stuck in the middle of the ocean and you can’t see land this way, you can’t see land that way. It’s not your environment. It’s not what you’re built to survive in."

So you don’t go on cruises?

"Uh-uh. None of that. I won’t go on cruises on the ocean. None of that. If I do I’m staying inside the entire time."

What about fishing?

"If I can see land I’ll be okay with it. I’ve been fishing in open water sometimes but it still makes me nervous."

G Tyler Shatley

"I’d say spiders or snakes. Pretty much anything that I can’t see coming."

Did you have a bad experience with one?

"No. I don’t like things that I can’t see coming or that are quicker than I am. If they’re quicker than me they’re going to get me."

If you see a spider can you kill it?

"I can take care of them. I’d rather not have to deal with them."

The worst thing would be for you to find a spider in your locker?

"Yeah. Well, no, that wouldn’t be the worst thing. It’d probably be worse if I got in bed and there’s a snake there. That would probably be worse."