DeSean Jackson’s Second Act No One Expected: College Football Head Coach + Being one of the Greatest Deep Threats in NFL History
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, Peanut Tillman and Roman Harper sit down with former Pro Bowl receiver DeSean Jackson to talk about life after football and his transition from elite playmaker to head coach at Delaware St. University. DeSean opens up about his unorthodox coaching style, the moment he realized coaching was his next calling, and the challenges of building confidence in his first year leading a program. He also discusses battling for accolades amongst receivers like Calvin Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, A.J. Green and others. Plus, we hear where DeSean compares to Jerry Rice in NFL history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:23.8 | Knowing how emotional you were as a player. Mm-hmm. For sure. What's the chuckle for? What's the chuckle for? Because he's right. I'm the same way with coaching, though. I'm waiting for the question. That's exactly where I was going with it. Yeah. Because you can't be emotional like that as a coach. Right. Like you got to kind of be able to just take the ebbs and the flows. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:24.8 | Man. |
| 0:20.9 | All right. Exactly where I was going with it. Yeah. Because you can't be emotional like that as a coach. Right. |
| 0:37.4 | Like you got to kind of be able to just take the ebbs and the flows. Yeah, yeah. Man, I'm still hot-headed. I'm very emotional. It gets heated. It gets if I, if I see a play call or something get called crazy, like at the end of day, I'm like, what are we doing? Like, why are we calling? You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:37.6 | So that part of it is kind of hard to take myself out of because I know football, you know what saying? It's like being the head coach, man, it's so many variables and so many hats you have to wear. Yeah. And, you know, so I won't say over one of me, but it is a lot, you know what I'm saying? So you just got to be in control at all given times. And you got to let your play cards, you know, |
| 0:55.6 | they got to make their calls, but at the end of day, |
| 0:57.3 | it's going |
| 0:57.5 | with mistakes. And I feel like being the head coach, you're not really looking at it as like |
| 1:01.1 | the ends and outs of, you know, what goes in to imagine the whole game because you got to, it's |
| 1:05.8 | chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | What's up, everybody? |
| 1:13.6 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL player's second acts podcast. |
| 1:18.2 | And with me, as always, is my trusty co-host, Roman, Grandpa Harper. |
| 1:23.5 | I thought you were going to say camouflage. |
| 1:24.7 | But thank you. |
| 1:25.4 | Really excited for our next guest. |
| 1:28.4 | I would consider a friend, West Coast's finest. And I can't wait to pick this guy's brain because I'm just, I just did not see him doing exactly what he's doing right now. Me neither. |
| 1:40.1 | Let's jump right into it. Go ahead. All right. Well, he was one of the fastest receivers to ever play the game. |
| 1:47.7 | While he played during his 15-year career, he accumulated over 11,000 yards, all-pro bowler. |
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