Interview: Running backs coach Terry Robiskie

of learned as it goes. You know. I think just from being around some of the uh what I want to say, some of the best head coaches ever, you know, they would always I would always remember them saying, especially defensive guys, I would always remember those head coach saying that, oh, I don't worry about them. They don't have the patients to stick to that at full yards in the cloud of dust, they won't stick that. They're gonna drop, you know, drive back and through too many passes. You know. Pete

carroll Is is one notorious for that. Pete just don't believe you've got the patients to sit there and run the ball whereby they all know they fear the same thing. They fear the running game. And if you started like he said, if you started off early with one, two to three, three, four, sow later it gets to eight, nine, ten, eleven,

you know it's thus to change it. And I said the one thing too, that we all learned in football, when you're sitting down in those meetings, when you sit down in these team meetings that Saturday night before game, I've never heard the defensive coordinator ever step up and saying we got to stop the pass. We've got to stop the pass. They all don't sleep at night because they're worried about you running at football, you know, because

the key to it is sooner or later. Those with Lenard, especially Leonard for Nette, those those two yard games turns to four, those four curting the eight eight turns to forty eight are as in the DENVCA, it turns into one coach when when Leonard's been going this year, well he's back to his old self, just kind of downhill and and a lot of times runs to contact. That's the way he's always kind of been in college. But it seems like this year, especially the last couple of weeks,

he still had that aggressive downhill mentality. That's when he's at his best. Yes, and and that's kind of what he and I have talked about. That's the uh discussion we've had. And I told him it's always that thin line, you know, right between there. You know, as a coach, you know you're a little bit nervous to say, uh, you know, hey, put your put your head down and just go forward. There's a little bit increase there. You

can gain four. Where by a good runner, his mindset is hold on one minute, coach about jump cut to my left, maybe I can gain twelve, you know. And I told him and Len and I talked about that is starting out, starting out of early. Let's take those fours, Let's take those five. Let's just kind of get going way I'm down on a little bit, and then as the game progress, we'll go ahead and jump cut one

or two and see if you can break one. Terry Robiscuit with US Jaguars running backs coach, how's his stamina last week? It was back to I think he played fifty five or fifty eight snaps on offense last week. Right now, there's not a lot of runs and that was some three and ounce. It was tough to establish it earlier and get back to the running game. But he's been doing that a lot this year. He's on

the field all the time. How is he handling that? Well, I told him, you know, the places I've been in my past, you know, when I've had the Marcus Allen's and the Bo Jackson's and Eric Dickinson's and the guys that uh that that's in Kenton. When i've had those guys they've played uh, you know, like I told him, I can't sit I can't sit back and predict that what's coming. I can't predict that. Okay, we're gonna run it this one, then we're gonn throw it three, and

then we're gonna run it on that food. You know, when when they call a run, you're you're a runner. You're here to run it, and and it's hard to run it if you're if you're kneeling on next to me. And like I told him, and I think that's uh. You know. One thing that I got to kind of check on myself is I've always had a hard time kind of guess what is the best time to give him a blow when he's in the middle of a drive. If we've got a twelve, play, fifteen, play eighteen, play

drive Okay, that's easy. You know, I could substitute that. You know, but like you said, if we've got a six play drive going and we get to play seven, I should I take him out here? Now you know, a minute, we just got down to the twenty yard line. Well, no, the next one maybe a run and he might score, you know, I mean, he might take it to the house. And it's not, like I tell him, is not that

I'm afraid to put the next guy in. I'm just afraid that the guy that is supposed to be he isn't in and uh got a chance to go score, you know. And of course with Leonard, he's got a chance to go score. Every time you touch it. It's from just but anyway on the field. So that's a that's a hard thing to balance when you feel like you got a guy that you're counting on and you're

depending on. But he's he's been doing good. But I tell you, the effort that he has put in this summer and and the energy that he's expanded using all this this whole this whole season, everything he's been doing in practice has showed up in the game. He's been working hard in practice, running hard, finishing plays, finishing down field with good distance to it, and taking consecutive plays over and over and over. And I think on Sunday has been good. I've said out a couple of times

and ask him how you feeling on the bench. All right, y'okay, I'm good. He's not even breathing hard, so I guess he's okay. Final thought here, this is uh, this is setting up to be a get right game for the offense, and you don't want to downplay what Cincinnati can do. But this is a this is the stretch you're coming up for this football team, right two and four, going on the road to Cincinnati to get right on offense. This would be a good week to start right. Well. Again,

you're in the media, so I'm gonna let you say that. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to you, and I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to you. But I ain't gonna agree with yet. Okay, because the one thing you said, you know, not to downplay CINCINAI uh, Cincinnati. Uh. The one thing I can say from all the years in the league is just about the time you start getting to a point that you feel like, uh, this is homecoming. You know, you start feeling like this, Oh, this week, we got

an easy one. Oh, this week, it's gonna Then all of a sudden, you realize you the Dallas Cowboys in the New York Jets. You realize that, uh, there's no home coming in the NFL. I've learned that. I've been long enough to know that. Just about the time you start thinking, uh, oh man, this is homecoming, you find out you're that homecoming opponent. You know, people sneak upon you. So you know, we've we've got an opportunity this week go out and compete, which is what the game is

all about. We've got a chance to. Uh, we got a chance to plus a little bit and work, work, work hard, and and try to get back on track. We've certainly got a chance to do that. Uh. We're going up to Cincinnati. I wish they were coming here, you know, but we gotta go up there and fight. We gotta compete. Cincinnati has got a good bunch of guys on defense. They've got a nose tackle is one of the best in ball. He could record the game by himself. I've played him a couple of times, so

they've got, you know, they've got some some talent. They've got some talent on any defense. We got to go up there and just to execute our offense and make it work. Anytime, anytime you guys call me