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Speaker 1: A former Jaguars player now the offensive quality control coach

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Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Are good friend d narg Robinson

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Speaker 1: with us, de rob what's up? What's going on, JF.

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Speaker 1: How you been man? It's we're seeing you in this

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Speaker 1: light now, I know, right, it's been a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It's really good to have you on staff this year,

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Speaker 1: and and thanks for taking the time this week to

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Speaker 1: chat with us. You know, it's been an interesting transition

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Speaker 1: for you. Fifth round pick at the Jaguars in of course,

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Speaker 1: four years with the Jagsons are running back, went around

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Speaker 1: a couple of different teams after that, trying to make

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Speaker 1: your way in the league, ended up in the Alliance

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Speaker 1: of American Football at some point, Right, How difficult were

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Speaker 1: those last couple of years trying to stick it out

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Speaker 1: as a player and then look forward to your future

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Speaker 1: as well. You know, I always had the coaching coaching

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Speaker 1: in my site, you know, all the time, because I

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Speaker 1: love the game. I always want to stay around it.

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Speaker 1: So I said, what's I'm done. Uh, once I have

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Speaker 1: done eight years, I'm gonna ten years. I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to, you know, get it to coaching. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it happened a little faster than than than

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Speaker 1: I spent it. So it was cool, man, it was cool. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Penning a F was kind of cool. I kind of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of young guys on the

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Speaker 1: a F team with mean, uh would I would help

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Speaker 1: them coach coach dumb and help them, you know, think

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Speaker 1: like I was thinking, and see what I was saying

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Speaker 1: and the development as a player, and so I was

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Speaker 1: just like, man, look, you gotta do this, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do that. So the running back coach, I was like, Man,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be a coach one day. The way the

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Speaker 1: way you had the things. He was like, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a coach. So Uh, shout out to him. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's it's difficult though, to get that first gig sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And I believe your first opportunity to coach was in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen with the Jacksonville Dolphins. How did that come about?

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Speaker 1: And I know it ended because the program ended, so

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Speaker 1: so it came about crazy crazies on the WA. Man. Uh.

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Speaker 1: One of the guys that uh in the AF he

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Speaker 1: actually was the strip coach. He knew the head coach

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Speaker 1: at JU. He actually gave me UH the JU coach number.

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Speaker 1: And I reached out to him. I'm like, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to get it to coach, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you got a position open, but I would love

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Speaker 1: to even volunteer, just just to get it to coach,

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Speaker 1: you know, just to get my feedback, feet in the door, internship.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you want me to do, I do it, you know.

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Speaker 1: So I end up meeting up with the coach. I

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Speaker 1: end up coming up there and going to the facility

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Speaker 1: acts them, can I get get be evolved? He said yeah,

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Speaker 1: not without doubt. But he's like, I can't pay you.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, cool, mat just want

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Speaker 1: to be around the game and just learned I was

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Speaker 1: rehabing my knee. I had to my a c on

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Speaker 1: them to everything on my knee. So I was rehabbing

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Speaker 1: and coaching them, helping out, helping out with them whenever

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Speaker 1: I could, and it was a blessing. Man. When I

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Speaker 1: got into it, I was like, this is a blessing.

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Speaker 1: So thank the coach. Thanks to coach Shills for giving

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to start my career of coaching and being

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Speaker 1: be being around football. And you know, the program got

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Speaker 1: shut down. It was so it was a bitter sweet

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Speaker 1: feeling of my first time coaching, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: kind of it was great to be around those kids

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Speaker 1: and see those those smiles, that joy that they had

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Speaker 1: coming up out on Saturdays. And so it was Funk

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Speaker 1: Robinson with US Jaguars offensive Quality control coach. So the

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Speaker 1: program gets disbanded at JU Where are you going next to?

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Speaker 1: Where their plans after that? What was going on in

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Speaker 1: your head in your career? You just got your first

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Speaker 1: coaching gig. Now it's gone. Now what and how did

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Speaker 1: you come across the Jaguars opportunity? So, man, uh, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was I was actually still the coaching with the

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Speaker 1: we was like, all right, we started recruiting. It was

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Speaker 1: sent an email out and tell us that uh you know,

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Speaker 1: getting fired. You know, it's over for us. Uh. Never

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Speaker 1: come to find out it's kind of over for all

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Speaker 1: of us. It's over for the for the coaches. For them,

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Speaker 1: I'm really over for the players. You know a lot

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Speaker 1: of these players can you know, try to find someone

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Speaker 1: more than anything. And uh, you know those cold players

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Speaker 1: have got scholarship to go other places. Uh. Our quarterback

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Speaker 1: for him to be able to, you know, continue his career.

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Speaker 1: And now he's on the bigger, bigger platforms, hopefully he

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Speaker 1: you've landed with the Jaguars as the offensive quality control coach.

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Speaker 1: What are your day to day duties and is there

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Speaker 1: actually a list of those or is it just whenever

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Speaker 1: somebody needs something, You're running around doing a little bit

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Speaker 1: of everything. So every week I break down to break

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Speaker 1: down every game that that we we all the appointments

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Speaker 1: that we have to face. So every week, I'll if

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Speaker 1: we're facing the team, So every every week I go

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Speaker 1: to every team that we play against, breakdown their defense

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Speaker 1: Get that going. So when the coaches when it's tough

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Speaker 1: for us, look at their that film that have our

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Speaker 1: you know, information is now our players in our from uh,

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Speaker 1: their alignments. So it's kind of cool to do that.

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Speaker 1: And UH back to the question you asked me, how

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Speaker 1: did I get the gig? So I was. I was

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Speaker 1: getting into coaching. If you know anybody you know that's

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Speaker 1: up seeing you too. I remember that day. I've seen you.

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Speaker 1: I've seen you. I've seen uh coach Doug, I've seen

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Speaker 1: Dave carl Well, I've seen all the coaches and talk

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Speaker 1: my face and we chatted for a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: MP and uh, I was just telling you if y'all

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Speaker 1: got anybody to know that, you know a job, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: And they end up hit me up and telling me, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: if you entered interested and coach with us, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, that's a no brainer. You know,

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Speaker 1: pretty cool story there to Dart Robinson whether Jaguars offensive

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Speaker 1: quality control coach. You know, you saw this as a

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Speaker 1: player in the NFL. Now you're kind of going the

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Speaker 1: other way coaching or helping coach players in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Is it what you expected going into it now that

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Speaker 1: you're on the other side of the fence. It's definitely.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely a lot of stuff that you don't see

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Speaker 1: as a player, you know, so like, obviously what I

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Speaker 1: do is behind the scenes. That's that's cool with me.

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Speaker 1: I don't really you know, I don't want to praise,

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Speaker 1: but you know, you do a lot of stuff that's

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and uh, you try to get those guys.

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Speaker 1: They notebooks on time and paper works and all the

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Speaker 1: all the films that you could possibly shoot to them

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Speaker 1: and uh, all the paper like all the all the

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Speaker 1: things that you break down for them to know what's

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Speaker 1: guys when you know, you know you ain't gonna see

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Speaker 1: it on Sunday, but that that's that's the preparation. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't ever see what what you

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Speaker 1: do to get to where you're at to have success

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Speaker 1: on the football field. So you know, now I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, what you have to do behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes to help these guys be be great on Sundays,

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Speaker 1: Dear Robinson, with us Vick ten is about to start finally,

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Speaker 1: But I don't know how Michigan is gonna do this year, Deart,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say, uh, man, I think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be all right. We're gonna be all right this year.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Hardball will have the team going.

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Speaker 1: We got Joe Milling starting that quarterback and uh, we've

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Speaker 1: got some good talented receivers, so I think they'll do

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty thing. Good man. I think those guys are

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Speaker 1: get it going. And uh, I like the Deefense. The

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Speaker 1: Deefens always show it big. So great stuff. Always good

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Speaker 1: to see you man, great to catch up. And let's

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Speaker 1: get a w this week in l A. Oh yeah, definitely. Man.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to l A and have fun and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we do what we have to do, take care

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Speaker 1: of business, be our best, our best uh team that

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