Hadronic models of blazars require a change of the accretion paradigm

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We study hadronic models of broad-band emission of jets in radio-loud active galactic nuclei, and their implications for the accretion in those sources.

• We show that the models that account for broad-band spectra of blazars emitting in the GeV range in the sample of Boettcher et al.
• have highly super-Eddington jet powers.
• Furthermore, the ratio of the jet power to the radiative luminosity of the accretion disc is $\sim 3000$ on average and can be as high as $\sim 10^5$.