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Article: Growing pains: Jack Del Rio's transition into the head-coaching ranks hasn't been easy, but he has learned from his mistakes.
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- Football Digest
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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DON'T CALL JACK DEL RIO A players' coach. "I'm a former player who coaches," he says. That might seem like a small distinction, but Del Rio has tried to emphasize it since he was hired as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars in January 2003, at the tender age of 39.
Del Rio was just seven years removed from his last training camp as a player when he got the Jacksonville job, and he had just six years of experience as an assistant coach. Del Rio was introduced at a news conference at Alltel Stadium that was open to the public, and he received a thunderous ovation when he said. "This is a new beginning, and we will bring back passion to this stadium." He got ...