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Interview: Running back coach Terry Robiskie · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars running backs coach Cherry Robiski with us as we
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  Speaker 1: had to Baltimore for a week of practices against the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Um, let's let's start with your starting running
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  Speaker 1: back Leonard for that after having a few months around him, Now,
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  Speaker 1: what was your perception of him coming in and how
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  Speaker 1: has that changed if any, over the few months you've
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  Speaker 1: had with Leonard for that in your room, Oh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what coming in. Um, just obviously from watching
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  Speaker 1: him the previous two years, you know, watching this previous
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  Speaker 1: two years, watching him play, watching and perform, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of had a sense that, uh, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: a young man with with a lot of talent, which
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  Speaker 1: some about you again, I'll emphasize a young man with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talent, a lot of ability that just
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  Speaker 1: to me kind of had to get a sense of
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  Speaker 1: what professional football is, what professional what a professional person
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  Speaker 1: it is, what what what professions, professionalism comes with the job,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. And I think every day that I've
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  Speaker 1: been here and I've been around him, I've seen more
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  Speaker 1: and more and more of that, you know what I mean. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy for me to go back and talk about
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  Speaker 1: and I guess I'm gonna have to let that go
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  Speaker 1: soon or later. But the incident in Buffalo, New York,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's a uh. That's a
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  Speaker 1: youthful guy. That's a youthfulness. That's a uh. And I
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  Speaker 1: tell him that's a a young guy making a young
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  Speaker 1: guy's mistake. And at the end of the day, it
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  Speaker 1: cost you a game, you know, And uh, those are
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  Speaker 1: things that that I said again, I saw and I
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  Speaker 1: recognized before I got here. And I think more and
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  Speaker 1: more every day we're kind of getting past that that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, you know, I mean. And he's, um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to sit on and
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  Speaker 1: say he's learned how to work, but he's worked, and
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  Speaker 1: he's where he's really worked this behind off and he's
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  Speaker 1: been doing a doing a good job for us. But
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  Speaker 1: it takes that person being willing to open up to
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  Speaker 1: somebody like you, to listen to maybe a different mindset
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  Speaker 1: or a different way to go about think a guy
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  Speaker 1: has been in the league for almost forty years doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 1: But it takes that person being open to change and
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  Speaker 1: open to growth too, right, Well, And that's the big
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  Speaker 1: thing about it, and that's the that's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of the day's uh, today's football. I think the good part, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the good part about that for me is I came
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  Speaker 1: into a situation where Leonard had that relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: head coach. I think him and Coach Maron had a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic relationship. The fact that the coach had been at
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  Speaker 1: played football in the professional at a professional level, and
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  Speaker 1: coach has been in it in the profession for such
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  Speaker 1: a long time that him and Lena had a really
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  Speaker 1: good relationship, and I think was one of those where
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  Speaker 1: Leonard respected respect the hell out of him and uh,
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  Speaker 1: he was willing to listen to him. And when coach says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing in another guy who's an older guy who's
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  Speaker 1: got more a lot more experience uh than Leonard for net,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a plus. So I think that all in all,
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  Speaker 1: I think that coach Maron had kind of softened that
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  Speaker 1: situation up a little bit before I got here. Very
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  Speaker 1: robisky with US Jaguars running backs coach on the field,
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  Speaker 1: his running style, what he brings to the table on offense,
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  Speaker 1: what is his best trade, and what are some things
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  Speaker 1: he's working on in this training camp right now. The
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  Speaker 1: thing that I think is His best trade is that
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  Speaker 1: he's very very powerful. He's got really really good feat
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  Speaker 1: and he's got good explosion. I I tell people that
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  Speaker 1: that I talked to. I think he is the prototype
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  Speaker 1: NFL running back. I think he's uh, he's the guy
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for when you're walking the streets, when you're
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  Speaker 1: traveling on these campuses, when you're flying around the country.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you go. I mean, you can
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  Speaker 1: go to London, you know, you can go to Spain,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you go, that's the guy you're looking for. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of developing it all and getting it
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  Speaker 1: all going in the right direction and keeping it rolling.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that he's been working on the most, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's been his past protection reads at pickups. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was fantastic. The other night we had Peyton
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  Speaker 1: Manning came in and spoke to us, and it was
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just uh, it was just awesome
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  Speaker 1: that Peyton started his conversation by saying, the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: the best teammate Peyton man I've ever had was a
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  Speaker 1: running back named Edwin Jane. And I think that kind
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  Speaker 1: of a shock in all the places Peyton had been
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  Speaker 1: and all the people he played with. He picked the
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  Speaker 1: running back Edgwin James. I think it kind of shocked
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  Speaker 1: and it hit home with Lennon a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: I think Lynda Lena can take running and caring the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's a natural. When Peyton told him the one thing
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  Speaker 1: about Edwin Jamie is I don't ever remember Edwin missing
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  Speaker 1: a Bliss pickup. That was very, very important and it
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  Speaker 1: really hit home. So that was a big plus. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing he's working on the most,
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  Speaker 1: is his Bliss pickup and being being shopping past protection.
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  Speaker 1: Let's touch on a few other guys and you're running
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  Speaker 1: backs from here. Alfred Blues been around the league for
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  Speaker 1: a number of years now in this division for a ben.
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  Speaker 1: How has he been in camp for you? And what
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  Speaker 1: does he bring as a veteran player in this league
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  Speaker 1: to this running back. He brings a lot of experience
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  Speaker 1: with him. Uh, he's been through it. He's been through
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  Speaker 1: some battles and he's he's played quite a few games.
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  Speaker 1: He did a really really good job for Houston. He
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  Speaker 1: brings a lot of maturity to our room and he
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  Speaker 1: brings some leadership. He brings some lead the ship quality
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  Speaker 1: to him. And uh, you know, he's been pretty good. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about Alfred, and I gotta say it before
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  Speaker 1: I get off the air, is Alfred grew up. His
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  Speaker 1: hometown is literally about two miles from my hometown where
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  Speaker 1: I grew up, and I used to when I was
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  Speaker 1: running for conditioning, I would run from my hometown to his.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people back there that
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  Speaker 1: knows him. And I can always remember a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that I talked to when he was at she
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  Speaker 1: was will talk about, oh, what a knucklehead he is.
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  Speaker 1: All that guy's a knucklehead or that guy you know,
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  Speaker 1: people tend to say that. Today I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: agree with him. He is a knucklehead and he's been
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  Speaker 1: a knucklehead in my room. But he's brought some leadership
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  Speaker 1: in the room and he's been good. Uh and and
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  Speaker 1: he's been good for the role. He's been good for me,
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  Speaker 1: and he's been good for Lennen Small world coach, Benny Cunninghammer,
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  Speaker 1: guy who's been in the league for a minute as well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of special teams working his past. But in
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  Speaker 1: the backfield, there is he a guy you can trust.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the third down situation, get outside what what do
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  Speaker 1: you foresee Benny hunting Hams role if he's on the
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  Speaker 1: field here is uh as you said. If he's here,
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  Speaker 1: if Benny makes this makes this club, he will be
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  Speaker 1: an asset to us. He's gonna be really good for us.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's gonna He's been a top guy in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL from a special team span at the standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: But the first thing you said about Benny is today,
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  Speaker 1: I think we all trust Benny. I think I trust him.
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  Speaker 1: I think the quarterback trust him. I think the quartney
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  Speaker 1: the trust him. We trust him to go in the
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  Speaker 1: game and do the right thing. Maybe he will get
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  Speaker 1: beat physically, maybe somebody will run over him, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: won't turn the corner as fast as he's supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: But I know that it won't be because it's a
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  Speaker 1: lack of effort, or it won't be because he won't
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  Speaker 1: know what he's doing. He's a very very professional guy,
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  Speaker 1: might be the most professional guy in my room. He's
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  Speaker 1: very very detail oriented. He's very very very shop with
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  Speaker 1: everything he's doing. And to make a mistake or to
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  Speaker 1: do something wrong, gonna drop a ball or the fumble
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  Speaker 1: the ball, it bothers him. And that's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: guy you're looking for. Final thought here, Quel Armstead draft
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  Speaker 1: pick from Temple. I know the DPS might have had
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  Speaker 1: enough of him all ready with a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: checking on the field earlier this week, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: like he is a guy that is gonna fit in
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  Speaker 1: really well into the system with his physicality and the
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  Speaker 1: way he finished. Yes. And the big thing about Roquela,
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  Speaker 1: you know we call him que The one thing about
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  Speaker 1: him is that he comes in, he's got a he's
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  Speaker 1: got a hunger about him. He's got the eye of
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  Speaker 1: a lion. Uh. He looks like he wants it. He
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  Speaker 1: plays like he wants it. Uh. The thing about him
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  Speaker 1: is I get a sense he's that guy who's Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's the guy that's been cuddled at Temple. He's the
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  Speaker 1: guy that's been patted on the bag, and everybody loves him.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's the guy that goes in the
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  Speaker 1: lust room and they give him two biscuits instead of
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  Speaker 1: instead of one. You know, everybody else getting one biscuit.
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  Speaker 1: He gets too. Because everybody's kind of liked him, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody he's good friends with everybody. He wants to be
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  Speaker 1: friends with everybody. When he got the ball in his hand. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to get ut up on it. He
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  Speaker 1: don't have a friend there. That's a good sign that
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  Speaker 1: it's a good thing to have. He's been good for us.
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  Speaker 1: We've just got to bring him along and be patient
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  Speaker 1: with him. Uh. You know, he's a little bit faster
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  Speaker 1: than what we knew he would be able to what
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was, and he's had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a soft tissue problems. But I think he's getting
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  Speaker 1: healthy and I think he's gonna be good for us.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be a good guy to having a room
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  Speaker 1: and a good guy to have on the field. So
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Thanks at anytime.