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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast, an NFL podcast for

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Speaker 1: the players, by the players. Here is your host, fourteen

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Speaker 1: year NFL veteran and Hall of Famer A. Nius Williams. Hello,

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Speaker 1: this is a Nius Williams and welcome to the Legends Podcast.

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Speaker 1: As part of our Storyteller series, we present the story

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Speaker 1: of Josh Scolby and how he remains linked with the

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Speaker 1: franchise he once played for. Let's listen in Well, this

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Speaker 1: is Josh Scobee. I played for the Jacksonville Jaguars from

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Speaker 1: two thousand four to two thousand fourteen. I was traded

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Speaker 1: from Jacksonville to Pittsburgh in the training camp of two

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Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, right before the start of the season. For me,

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Speaker 1: it was it was kind of a shock whenever I

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Speaker 1: was traded because I was with the same team for

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Speaker 1: eleven years, and I, you know, had established myself as

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Speaker 1: a reliable player in Jacksonville, and and Jacksonville was home

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Speaker 1: for me, and so when I was traded, when the

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Speaker 1: day happened, like I said, it was a shock, and

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Speaker 1: it's not something that I wanted to do. Quite frankly.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has been an arrival of Jacksonville over the years.

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Speaker 1: They were in the same division for a long time.

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Speaker 1: So when I was traded there, I wasn't excited because

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Speaker 1: number one, I didn't want to leave Jacksonville. Number Two,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to Pittsburgh, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: I was excited about the fact that I'd have a

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Speaker 1: chance to win a Super Bowl because of the way

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Speaker 1: that team is built and their mentality every years to

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Speaker 1: to try and win a Super Bowl, and they were

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Speaker 1: built to win one that year specifically. So my first

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Speaker 1: game there in Pittsburgh, I had a tough game. I

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Speaker 1: missed my first two field goals and made the last two,

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Speaker 1: and then had two good games in between. And then

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Speaker 1: the last game that I was in Pittsburgh was a

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Speaker 1: Thursday night and I missed two potential game winning field

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Speaker 1: goals or game clinching field goals at the end. Was

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Speaker 1: released a couple of days after that game, and it

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Speaker 1: was honestly a big relief to get released, because in

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Speaker 1: in my mind after that game, I just wasn't really

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Speaker 1: wanting to play anymore that season for for one reason,

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Speaker 1: my leg was was hurting really bad. I had a

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Speaker 1: quad strain that was kind of a nagging injury for me.

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Speaker 1: Torn my quad back in two thousand and eight, and

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Speaker 1: it had always been something that bothered me, and if

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Speaker 1: I strained it at all, it was going to be

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Speaker 1: something that would linger for a few weeks. So when

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Speaker 1: that happened, it didn't make things any easier wanting to

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Speaker 1: play that anymore that season, So it honestly was a

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Speaker 1: relief to get released so I could go back home

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Speaker 1: and rehab my injury and find a place that I

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Speaker 1: actually wanted to play. And so throughout that that season

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Speaker 1: I got many calls from different teams that were wanting

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Speaker 1: to sign me, but I kept re injuring my leg

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Speaker 1: and getting getting to the point where I couldn't go

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Speaker 1: through an entire week of kicking, and an entire week

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Speaker 1: of kicking in the NFL typically means about four days

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Speaker 1: a week of kicking without any pain, and I couldn't

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Speaker 1: go through one day of kicking without pain. I finally

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Speaker 1: got to that point in the next off season where

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Speaker 1: I could kick without pain, and I ended up signing

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Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints. I was kicking well. I

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Speaker 1: was going to be competing with Kai for bath. We

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Speaker 1: actually never even got into O t a s or

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Speaker 1: practice or anything. We were just in the workouts of

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Speaker 1: the voluntary workouts. I got called into the office one

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Speaker 1: day and was released, and I was a little confused

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Speaker 1: by it, and so I took some time to reflect

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Speaker 1: and and figure out, you know, what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: And at that point, my mind and my body just

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Speaker 1: weren't really in it anymore, and I was I was

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Speaker 1: basically ready to retire, and as an athlete and as

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Speaker 1: a football player. Once once you have that in your mind,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of settled, it's really hard to go back

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Speaker 1: the other direction, you know. It's it's hard for people

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Speaker 1: to understand that because they figure, you know, why not

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Speaker 1: play as long as you can, and you know, why

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Speaker 1: not make as much money as you can for as

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Speaker 1: long as you can. But it's just hard as an

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Speaker 1: athlete too, to keep wanting to get better at something

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Speaker 1: when you don't want to. I got to that point

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Speaker 1: and it was tough for me, number one being done

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Speaker 1: playing a sport that I you know, played for a

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Speaker 1: long time, and number two for my wife, you know,

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Speaker 1: telling her that I was ready to retire when she

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Speaker 1: knew that I could, I could probably still do it.

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Speaker 1: And it was it was something I had to explain

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Speaker 1: to her that a need to and I want to

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Speaker 1: or completely different things for an athlete. So, like I

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Speaker 1: said before, Jacksonville, you know, was was home for us,

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Speaker 1: and we've made that our home now. So I contacted

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and told them that I was going to retire.

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Speaker 1: So they offered to UH to do a one day

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Speaker 1: signing and have me retire as a Jaguar because that's

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Speaker 1: where I played of my career and now, you know,

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Speaker 1: doing things for the Jaguars as an as an ambassador

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Speaker 1: and I have a web show that I do with them. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's something that I kind of I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do that, and I'm glad they offered it UH

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Speaker 1: to do the one day contract and retire with the

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Speaker 1: team because I was at least I felt like it,

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Speaker 1: and I know that a lot of people around there

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Speaker 1: did with the team that you know, I had a

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Speaker 1: lot more involvement than just being a player. I handled

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Speaker 1: a lot of you inside the locker room things, um,

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Speaker 1: a lot of interpersonnel things that that kept me kind

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Speaker 1: of entrenched with the team more than just as a player.

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Speaker 1: So whenever I left there, you know, right before the

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Speaker 1: season started, I had some some things and loosens and

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Speaker 1: needed to be tied up and kind of some closure basically.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's why I felt like what the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: did for me, uh and in signing me for the

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Speaker 1: one day retirement was very much appreciated because not all

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Speaker 1: teams will do that for a player, and especially a kicker.

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Speaker 1: I mean, kickers aren't exactly the type of person that

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Speaker 1: that gets that treatment, and so it was it was

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Speaker 1: much appreciated. And I know my family, I love being

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Speaker 1: a part of it, and and I know that that's

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Speaker 1: something that I'll always remember. This has been the NFL

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