Speaker 1: A former Jaguars player now the offensive quality control coach
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Are good friend d narg Robinson
Speaker 1: with us, de rob what's up? What's going on, JF.
Speaker 1: How you been man? It's we're seeing you in this
Speaker 1: light now, I know, right, it's been a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's really good to have you on staff this year,
Speaker 1: and and thanks for taking the time this week to
Speaker 1: chat with us. You know, it's been an interesting transition
Speaker 1: for you. Fifth round pick at the Jaguars in of course,
Speaker 1: four years with the Jagsons are running back, went around
Speaker 1: a couple of different teams after that, trying to make
Speaker 1: your way in the league, ended up in the Alliance
Speaker 1: of American Football at some point, Right, How difficult were
Speaker 1: those last couple of years trying to stick it out
Speaker 1: as a player and then look forward to your future
Speaker 1: as well. You know, I always had the coaching coaching
Speaker 1: in my site, you know, all the time, because I
Speaker 1: love the game. I always want to stay around it.
Speaker 1: So I said, what's I'm done. Uh, once I have
Speaker 1: done eight years, I'm gonna ten years. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to, you know, get it to coaching. But
Speaker 1: you know, it happened a little faster than than than
Speaker 1: I spent it. So it was cool, man, it was cool. Uh.
Speaker 1: Penning a F was kind of cool. I kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of young guys on the
Speaker 1: a F team with mean, uh would I would help
Speaker 1: them coach coach dumb and help them, you know, think
Speaker 1: like I was thinking, and see what I was saying
Speaker 1: and the development as a player, and so I was
Speaker 1: just like, man, look, you gotta do this, you gotta
Speaker 1: do that. So the running back coach, I was like, Man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a coach one day. The way the
Speaker 1: way you had the things. He was like, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be a coach. So Uh, shout out to him. Man.
Speaker 1: It's it's difficult though, to get that first gig sometimes.
Speaker 1: And I believe your first opportunity to coach was in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen with the Jacksonville Dolphins. How did that come about?
Speaker 1: And I know it ended because the program ended, so
Speaker 1: so it came about crazy crazies on the WA. Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of the guys that uh in the AF he
Speaker 1: actually was the strip coach. He knew the head coach
Speaker 1: at JU. He actually gave me UH the JU coach number.
Speaker 1: And I reached out to him. I'm like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get it to coach, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you got a position open, but I would love
Speaker 1: to even volunteer, just just to get it to coach,
Speaker 1: you know, just to get my feedback, feet in the door, internship.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want me to do, I do it, you know.
Speaker 1: So I end up meeting up with the coach. I
Speaker 1: end up coming up there and going to the facility
Speaker 1: acts them, can I get get be evolved? He said yeah,
Speaker 1: not without doubt. But he's like, I can't pay you.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, cool, mat just want
Speaker 1: to be around the game and just learned I was
Speaker 1: rehabing my knee. I had to my a c on
Speaker 1: them to everything on my knee. So I was rehabbing
Speaker 1: and coaching them, helping out, helping out with them whenever
Speaker 1: I could, and it was a blessing. Man. When I
Speaker 1: got into it, I was like, this is a blessing.
Speaker 1: So thank the coach. Thanks to coach Shills for giving
Speaker 1: the opportunity to start my career of coaching and being
Speaker 1: around the guy. So it was kind of good to
Speaker 1: be being around football. And you know, the program got
Speaker 1: shut down. It was so it was a bitter sweet
Speaker 1: feeling of my first time coaching, you know, it was
Speaker 1: kind of it was great to be around those kids
Speaker 1: and see those those smiles, that joy that they had
Speaker 1: coming up out on Saturdays. And so it was Funk
Speaker 1: Robinson with US Jaguars offensive Quality control coach. So the
Speaker 1: program gets disbanded at JU Where are you going next to?
Speaker 1: Where their plans after that? What was going on in
Speaker 1: your head in your career? You just got your first
Speaker 1: coaching gig. Now it's gone. Now what and how did
Speaker 1: you come across the Jaguars opportunity? So, man, uh, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was I was actually still the coaching with the
Speaker 1: j j with the Dolphins and uh, you know that
Speaker 1: the gig they we actually at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: we was like, all right, we started recruiting. It was
Speaker 1: time to trying to start recruiting. And half the coaches
Speaker 1: on the road, I couldn't go recruiting because I was
Speaker 1: only you know, intern that I couldn't go recruit. So
Speaker 1: have the coaches on the on the road trying to
Speaker 1: go recruit guys, and they give us a call. They
Speaker 1: sent an email out and tell us that uh you know,
Speaker 1: come meet meet with us in the morning and uh
Speaker 1: so we all thinking the coaches like we think we're
Speaker 1: getting fired. You know, it's over for us. Uh. Never
Speaker 1: come to find out it's kind of over for all
Speaker 1: of us. It's over for the for the coaches. For them,
Speaker 1: I'm really over for the players. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of these players can you know, try to find someone
Speaker 1: to go so, you know, they it was an unfortunate
Speaker 1: situation for those guys. So I felt for those guys
Speaker 1: more than anything. And uh, you know those cold players
Speaker 1: have got scholarship to go other places. Uh. Our quarterback
Speaker 1: Calvin he ended up going to Hawaii, So I'm happy
Speaker 1: for him to be able to, you know, continue his career.
Speaker 1: And now he's on the bigger, bigger platforms, hopefully he
Speaker 1: could do the same things he did at JU. So
Speaker 1: you've landed with the Jaguars as the offensive quality control coach.
Speaker 1: What are your day to day duties and is there
Speaker 1: actually a list of those or is it just whenever
Speaker 1: somebody needs something, You're running around doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything. So every week I break down to break
Speaker 1: down every game that that we we all the appointments
Speaker 1: that we have to face. So every week, I'll if
Speaker 1: we're facing the team, So every every week I go
Speaker 1: to every team that we play against, breakdown their defense
Speaker 1: and break down you know, our office. Put put our
Speaker 1: office and so I'll plug it in and do that.
Speaker 1: Get that going. So when the coaches when it's tough
Speaker 1: for us, look at their that film that have our
Speaker 1: you know, information is now our players in our from uh,
Speaker 1: their alignments. So it's kind of cool to do that.
Speaker 1: And UH back to the question you asked me, how
Speaker 1: did I get the gig? So I was. I was
Speaker 1: actually coaching at JU and then one morning me one
Speaker 1: day I hit up UH Marcus Poehler and I texted,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, how you doing. I'm getting I'm
Speaker 1: getting into coaching. If you know anybody you know that's
Speaker 1: interesting in the coach. I'm still coaching, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to get into coaching. And Uh, I came up,
Speaker 1: came up to the stadium for for lunch, just to
Speaker 1: have lunch, and you know some of the I end
Speaker 1: up seeing you too. I remember that day. I've seen you.
Speaker 1: I've seen you. I've seen uh coach Doug, I've seen
Speaker 1: Dave carl Well, I've seen all the coaches and talk
Speaker 1: to them, say hi to them. You know, they remember
Speaker 1: my face and we chatted for a little bit, and
Speaker 1: you know, at the while, I end up, you know,
Speaker 1: stay in contact with Doug and staying the contact with
Speaker 1: MP and uh, I was just telling you if y'all
Speaker 1: got anybody to know that, you know a job, I'm here.
Speaker 1: And they end up hit me up and telling me, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if you entered interested and coach with us, let's do it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's a no brainer. You know,
Speaker 1: pretty cool story there to Dart Robinson whether Jaguars offensive
Speaker 1: quality control coach. You know, you saw this as a
Speaker 1: player in the NFL. Now you're kind of going the
Speaker 1: other way coaching or helping coach players in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Is it what you expected going into it now that
Speaker 1: you're on the other side of the fence. It's definitely.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a lot of stuff that you don't see
Speaker 1: as a player, you know, so like, obviously what I
Speaker 1: do is behind the scenes. That's that's cool with me.
Speaker 1: I don't really you know, I don't want to praise,
Speaker 1: but you know, you do a lot of stuff that's
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and uh, you try to get those guys.
Speaker 1: They notebooks on time and paper works and all the
Speaker 1: all the films that you could possibly shoot to them
Speaker 1: and uh, all the paper like all the all the
Speaker 1: things that you break down for them to know what's
Speaker 1: going on. So you know, it's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that's behind the scenes that you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: guys when you know, you know you ain't gonna see
Speaker 1: it on Sunday, but that that's that's the preparation. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't ever see what what you
Speaker 1: do to get to where you're at to have success
Speaker 1: on the football field. So you know, now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to see, you know, what you have to do behind
Speaker 1: the scenes to help these guys be be great on Sundays,
Speaker 1: Dear Robinson, with us Vick ten is about to start finally,
Speaker 1: But I don't know how Michigan is gonna do this year, Deart,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say, uh, man, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: be all right. We're gonna be all right this year.
Speaker 1: I think I think Hardball will have the team going.
Speaker 1: We got Joe Milling starting that quarterback and uh, we've
Speaker 1: got some good talented receivers, so I think they'll do
Speaker 1: pretty pretty thing. Good man. I think those guys are
Speaker 1: get it going. And uh, I like the Deefense. The
Speaker 1: Deefens always show it big. So great stuff. Always good
Speaker 1: to see you man, great to catch up. And let's
Speaker 1: get a w this week in l A. Oh yeah, definitely. Man.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to l A and have fun and
Speaker 1: hopefully we do what we have to do, take care
Speaker 1: of business, be our best, our best uh team that
Speaker 1: we could possibly