JACKSON SALUTES SEAN TAYLOR: Bengals cornerbacks coach Steven Jackson is the only NFL position coach the late great free safety Sean Taylor ever had during his four seasons in Washington.
With Taylor's No. 21 becoming only the third number in Washington history to be retired in ceremonies this Sunday, Jackson reminisced Thursday with his office neighbor Robert Livingston, the safeties coach.
Taylor, 24, was in his fourth season and headed to his second Pro Bowl when he died of a gunshot in a botched robbery at his Miami home in November of 2007.
Jackson, in his 18th NFL season as an assistant after nine years as a player, says there's no question Taylor is the best player he's ever coached.
"There's no one even close," Jackson said. "He had every intangible and every physical skill was off the chart," Jackson said. "Discipline? He had to grow up a little bit."
And Jackson saw him do it when his daughter was born. Jackson thinks Jackie was nine months old when her father died.
"It changed his whole career, it changed his whole life," Jackson said. "It saddens me he never got to see her grow up and she never got time to spend with her dad.
"He had the thirst to be the best, which you usually don't find in guys as gifted athletically," Jackson said.
Jackson says Taylor marched to his own drummer and he ended up being one of the only guys Taylor ever talked to among management during the offseason. If head coach Joe Gibbs needed to find out about Taylor, he went through Jackson.
"He loved his teammates. He loved the game. He loved his family. He loved to fish. He loved to dep sea fish," Jackson said. "When the offseason came, that was it. He shut it down. No minicamps. He was going to show up when things were ready to go."
Jackson has a pretty good idea what was the last thing he said to him. It was probably on the field.
"Get your eyes right."
But on Thursday, Jackson still didn't feel right.
"I wouldn't wish that on any coach. I can't even describe it," Jackson said.
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