Speaker 1: Oh, he's a pleasure to chat with your coach. Here
Speaker 1: we are a week before, we're in October already. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that? That's hard to believe. But listen, there's
Speaker 1: so many things that have happened this year, in this
Speaker 1: season that's just it's all the imagine. So this is
Speaker 1: another one. We already in October and look like we
Speaker 1: got here yesterday. Let's get into your guys this week.
Speaker 1: James Robinson, of course, the offensive rookie of the month
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So we had a thirty nine scrimmage yards.
Speaker 1: But you know, you hear him talk this week and
Speaker 1: he's modest. He's kind of quiet, that's his personality. But
Speaker 1: you gotta love it for a kid like this to
Speaker 1: come in and play that well. It's been fun just
Speaker 1: to watch him and to be there with him, to
Speaker 1: be a part of it, to be a part of
Speaker 1: that growth, to kind of sit and visit with him
Speaker 1: and be with him in the room. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said, he's a very modest kid. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's fought through it a little bit. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I was a guy that back in the day that
Speaker 1: was it was a twelve round draft The draft was
Speaker 1: twelve round and I got picking the eight. So you know,
Speaker 1: I know that, I know that feeling of nobody wanted me,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted you. And then I'm at it and I
Speaker 1: think for a guy like that, I could really relate
Speaker 1: to him, you know. He you know, he had a
Speaker 1: hell of a senior year, a lot of yard rushing,
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdowns. Uh. You're sitting there thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go to first maybe I'll go the first day,
Speaker 1: you know, Oh no, no, Well maybe I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to second day. Well maybe we're we're in four, maybe
Speaker 1: i'll go in five. And then you don't go, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're like you're feeling bad.
Speaker 1: And then you get here and you find out, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, they're just playing football. I could do that,
Speaker 1: you know. And to sit out and watch him every
Speaker 1: day just getting more and more comfortable with the system,
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable with what we're doing, and to
Speaker 1: watch him just keep growing and growing. It's fun. It's challenging,
Speaker 1: and I'm having a good time with it. I'm having
Speaker 1: I'm having a fun time with it. Uh. We just
Speaker 1: we still got a long ways to go. But It's
Speaker 1: just fun watching him develop every week and getting better.
Speaker 1: Terry Robiski with a Jaguars running backs coach, we always hear,
Speaker 1: at least so far earlier in the season, we've heard
Speaker 1: about his great vision as a running back. Is that
Speaker 1: something you can teach a running back is a natural reaction.
Speaker 1: Take us through what that actually means. You always kind
Speaker 1: of give him a direction of what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: You're trying to point out to him. You get with
Speaker 1: the old line and you kind of sit there and
Speaker 1: you're watching your tape and you kind of tell him
Speaker 1: where we think it's gonna go. You know, it's one
Speaker 1: of those you know, hey, if they do this and
Speaker 1: do that, we're gonna hit it in the A gap.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna hit the two hole, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And then something happens, just like I can tell you
Speaker 1: right off the bat, Like we played Indiannapolis here and
Speaker 1: we kind of had one maybe backed up. We ran
Speaker 1: a belly to the left and he stepped up there
Speaker 1: and jumped outside and went for twelve and got us
Speaker 1: the first time, which was big for us at that
Speaker 1: point in time. That's not coachable, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: why I told him the minute he jumped out that
Speaker 1: starts screaming, don't go out there, don't go out there.
Speaker 1: Good good job, good job, good job. You know. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those when you tell a guy, uh,
Speaker 1: let's don't do this, because more times than not it
Speaker 1: will be a negative play. More time than not, you'll
Speaker 1: lose yours. And then the guys that's got that vision
Speaker 1: that see what you can't see because I'm on the sideline,
Speaker 1: you know. And and even when I get the little
Speaker 1: projected there on the sideline, when I get the little iPad,
Speaker 1: I still can't see it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But something told him it was there. He saw it,
Speaker 1: he hit it, he took it, and it works out
Speaker 1: pretty good. Uh, that's just something we tell him. That's
Speaker 1: just something God gave him. It ain't not nothing to
Speaker 1: do by it. You mentioned it's a long way to go.
Speaker 1: What are some things he's working on? What can he
Speaker 1: improve upon as we move into the second quarter of
Speaker 1: the season. Game. Oh, he just got to continue to
Speaker 1: uh work working like he's working, continue to work hard. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's just a bunch of little things that he's got
Speaker 1: to get more consistent with his step his footwork. Uh,
Speaker 1: just keep that going. The big thing we emphasize in
Speaker 1: our room is we want to be a north and
Speaker 1: south runner. Uh. Let's don't spend too much time east
Speaker 1: and west. You know, it's a north and south game.
Speaker 1: He's just got to uh unit talking about his vision.
Speaker 1: He's got to use his vision, but after that, he's
Speaker 1: got to use his feet, you know. And he's got
Speaker 1: to continue to get down a little bit below and
Speaker 1: be behind his pad, which is something I emphasized to
Speaker 1: him every day. We all in professional football and any football,
Speaker 1: we all got to always continue to work on protecting
Speaker 1: the football and secure that thing and put that thing
Speaker 1: away because that that will cast you the game and
Speaker 1: the heartbeat. And he's just got to continue to work
Speaker 1: and work hard on being north and south. And like
Speaker 1: I tell him every time he jumps outside, uh, in practice,
Speaker 1: I you know, I said, what you're trying to get
Speaker 1: on the ESPN? You know that's an ESPN play, you know?
Speaker 1: And I told him I know that a a little home,
Speaker 1: I said, a little hometown you from. I can tell
Speaker 1: the where you talk. You guys probably don't have ESPN,
Speaker 1: I said, but obviously you're trying to you're trying to
Speaker 1: get on the ESPN. You're jumping outside and think you're
Speaker 1: going for the home run. I just told him, just
Speaker 1: keep don't ever get tired putting five dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1: Don't go get me five yards, go get me five yards.
Speaker 1: And the great thing about it is he here all
Speaker 1: of us said the same thing. Uh. Coach Middleton has
Speaker 1: a big thing that go get what we need and
Speaker 1: then get what you want. And I love it, you know,
Speaker 1: And coach Ron has been coaching for a long time,
Speaker 1: and I of course Ron tell it to him almost
Speaker 1: every day. You know, go get what we need. We
Speaker 1: need four, go get what we need and then get
Speaker 1: what you want after that, you know. So we just
Speaker 1: gotta keep going with him and keep him growing. And uh,
Speaker 1: and of course we gotta go win some games. We
Speaker 1: gotta win the game. I love that approach. Coach Cherry
Speaker 1: Robisky with US Jaguars running backs coach. A guy who's
Speaker 1: been a little bit overshadowed this year is Chris Thompson.
Speaker 1: He was brought in in free agency to kind of
Speaker 1: be that third down type of back. He's he was
Speaker 1: just had a role obviously on this team already, but
Speaker 1: as a veteran, I'm sure he understands what's going on
Speaker 1: here and and understands what he can contribute to this
Speaker 1: running back room as well. Well, let me see Chris.
Speaker 1: I think Chris found out at an early stage in
Speaker 1: training camp that James is a lot better past protector
Speaker 1: than Chris is. And Chris. I think Chris had his
Speaker 1: uh you know, probably his sister, his aunt, his cousin,
Speaker 1: they all called and told him we saw that linebacker
Speaker 1: run over you on that past protection. So Chris is
Speaker 1: okay with it. You know, he he liked to sit
Speaker 1: and say James a bigger man. Uh. He likes to
Speaker 1: sit on and say James fatter than I am. We
Speaker 1: all say James got a bigger head than Chris gott
Speaker 1: So all those things tie in because James uses them
Speaker 1: all well. And James has certainly become a better pass protector. So, uh,
Speaker 1: some of those things that Chris was brought in to do,
Speaker 1: like third down pass protect uh, you know, quick stuff
Speaker 1: out the backfield, James, Uh, Jamimes shown he could do
Speaker 1: some of those, and that pass protec and stuff, he
Speaker 1: can do it better. So I think Chris is okay
Speaker 1: with that. He'd rather James. We we have a pass
Speaker 1: protection in the playbook. That's a free release by the back.
Speaker 1: There's no pick up, no block, free release and go.
Speaker 1: I think Chris want all the those you know, Chris Key,
Speaker 1: Chris keep suggesting, let me get those where I get
Speaker 1: a free release, free release and go. So that's the
Speaker 1: big thing. Chris is. Chris is a great teammate. He's
Speaker 1: been great in the room. He's been great for James.
Speaker 1: And he's the one guy that talks and communicate with
Speaker 1: James a lot. So he's been he's been phenomenal for James.
Speaker 1: And uh uh he uh he gave him a hug.
Speaker 1: We were sitting in the room the other day. He
Speaker 1: give him a hug and he said, Hey, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it feels like the hug the rookie of
Speaker 1: the month, Let me have a hug. So uh he
Speaker 1: gave him a hug and I had to I had
Speaker 1: to yell at him, but they had their masks on.
Speaker 1: I was gonna yell at him for hugging, and I said,
Speaker 1: you can't hug when you're supposed to be six ft apart.
Speaker 1: But Chris wanted to hug because he'd never been in
Speaker 1: a room with a rookie of the money. I mean
Speaker 1: before but the red light on the tracer probably came on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I started beepings. Final thought, whether here coach Denard Robinson
Speaker 1: is on the coaching status here offensive quality control coach,
Speaker 1: part of the minority coaching program in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: know he works with the running backs a lot. I
Speaker 1: see him when the practice field with you guys out there.
Speaker 1: What is he meant to the coaching staff so far?
Speaker 1: And what has he done to help those guys in
Speaker 1: the running back ro man to help you personally? He's
Speaker 1: been okay. It's been good to have him in there. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's been okay. Uh. That's ah, that's a part of him.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a pain. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: gotta get on him all the time. I told him
Speaker 1: when he walked in the door the first day that
Speaker 1: you know, he was bringing negative with him. You know,
Speaker 1: I said, you're coming in and uh, you come from
Speaker 1: that school up north. You know it's a school with
Speaker 1: that him And I was attached to that school with
Speaker 1: that o h I oh, because my son went to
Speaker 1: Ohio State, you know. But uh, he wanted to Uh.
Speaker 1: I think he wanted to stick his chest out and
Speaker 1: make a muscle, you know, and let me know, y'all,
Speaker 1: I went to Michigan. But I think uh, after I
Speaker 1: told him my son and him had beat him at
Speaker 1: that time, they'd beat Michigan like seven games straight, seven
Speaker 1: years in the row. I think that made him sit
Speaker 1: on and shut up, you know. But he's been really
Speaker 1: good for the guys. He's been really really good for them.
Speaker 1: I like my room to be loose. I like guys
Speaker 1: to h focus on what we're doing from a football standpoint,
Speaker 1: but also to be loose and relax and let's enjoy
Speaker 1: the game. And the North has been phenomenal for that.
Speaker 1: They sit down and have the youthful conversation about this
Speaker 1: rapper or that rapper, and uh, you know he he
Speaker 1: uses some of that street link well to get some
Speaker 1: point across and uh and at the same time, he's
Speaker 1: been able to better them the straight than I have.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, how to plant on this cut off
Speaker 1: of this and you know what's gonna happen with this,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with that. So he's been he's been
Speaker 1: a blessing for us in our room. The young guys
Speaker 1: enjoy him to enjoy him being in the back and uh,
Speaker 1: they have a good time with it. The only thing
Speaker 1: I've got to get out of him. And I know
Speaker 1: I'm a little older than him, and I've already told
Speaker 1: him I'm gonna slapping one day' gonna lap the hell
Speaker 1: out of him. Really, because we're sitting in the room,
Speaker 1: and I have a tendency the extra question, you know,
Speaker 1: and I might ask it like sideways to put a
Speaker 1: guy in a position like why did you do that?
Speaker 1: That's that's dumb. I can't believe it. Even though I
Speaker 1: know he did the right thing. I want him to
Speaker 1: explain to me why he did that, you know. And
Speaker 1: the minute I said that, you know, the no oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: cause you're wrong. You're wrong, You're wrong. I know I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Shut up and be quiet, you know. So we got
Speaker 1: a little bit of that going on. But he's been
Speaker 1: good and we're enjoying it. We're having a good time
Speaker 1: with him in the wrong