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Jerry Schuplinski – December 3, 2019 Download PDF version

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Assistant Quarterbacks Coach Jerry Schuplinski

(Who’s the funny guy on the coaching staff?) – “On the coaching staff?”

(Yeah.) – “Shoot. We’ve all got our own ways. You can’t go wrong with (Offensive Line Coach) ‘Guge’ (Dave DeGuglielmo). He’s always got a one-liner somewhere. You can’t go wrong with ‘Guge.’ Just speaking offensively, he’s usually the guy who makes me laugh the most I’d say by far.”

(How does Wide Receivers Coach Karl Dorrell fit into the mix with you offensive guys?) – “It’s great. I think a couple of us have worked together before, not all of us, and so I think everybody has really blended together nice. I think (Offensive Coordinator) Chad (O’Shea) has done a nice job of giving everyone responsibility, input and that creates an ownership in everything. That’s been really cool for everybody to work. We’ve done some things where we’ve worked together on some different projects and group up with some guys who we’ve never worked with – Karl, (Running Backs Coach) Eric (Studesville), myself – on some things and getting to know a little bit more about each other and how we’re thinking and what we’re seeing. That kind of stuff has been neat. But everyone is fitting in well.”

(How have you done that? Is it going out to lunch? Is it a team-building thing?) – “No, I think it was more like the offseason stuff. I think in here it might be as we’re game-planning for a week. Chad might say, ‘Hey, you two guys right now, here’s something I want you guys to focus on.’ Maybe it’s something in the red zone or something on third down or something in a protection or something, whatever. We’ll branch off here, some other people will branch off there and then we’ll come together.”

(Who are some of the guys that have worked together? Like Offensive Coordinator Chad O’Shea tells you and Wide Receivers Coach Karl Dorrell to do it or you and Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo work on something?) – “Yeah, it depends. We all work with each other in whatever facet depending. It might be ‘Guge’ and I and (Running Backs Coach) Eric (Studesville) in a protection. It might be me and Karl on a route or pass game kind of deal. It might be (Tight Ends Coach) George (Godsey) and Karl and Chad and I on third downs. We all end up working together throughout the course of the week in various phases.”

(What about your defensive counterparts? How do you guys hang out in the room, get to know each other?) – “We probably don’t spend a lot of time with them because we’re all so busy outside of staff meetings and stuff. We’re seeing them grabbing a cup of coffee or that kind of stuff.”

(Those things are important right?) – “Absolutely. I think we have a good relationship with them and vice versa. I think it’s important to have on a staff. We all know each other pretty well. We all – Families are a part of that too. Like some of us who have younger kids and kind of flock to them a little bit and have some things in common. It might not be something football-related as much as asking about how your kids are doing or what’s going on or how’s this that or the other thing. We do a family dinner on Tuesday. That’s pretty cool, too.”

(Coaches?) – “Yeah, that’ll bring coaches and their families together a little bit.”

(Is that every Tuesday?) – “Yeah.”

(So it’s all the coaches, all the assistant coaches including Head Coach Brian Flores?) – “Yeah. You have the opportunity to have your family here if they can make it. It’s nothing crazy or nothing long, but it’s really neat. It’s important for the families. I think it provides a breath of fresh air outside of the normal working area where you can be with your family and with your fellow coaches in a non-game plan setting.”

(That’s probably helped you guys grow a little bit together too right?) – “Yeah, absolutely. All that stuff helps. I think (Head Coach) ‘Flo’ (Brian Flores) has done a nice job with that.”

(Who’s taking over the family party? Who’s the king of the show? Is it Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo? Is it Defensive Coordinator Patrick Graham?) – “I don’t know if there’s any party going on, so you have to let me know if you hear of one. (laughter)”

(Strictly business dinner.) – “Yeah, it is. (laughter)”

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