Jack Easterby, New England Patriots Director of Team Development

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Episode 236

Jack Easterby is in his 6th season as the New England Patriots Team Character Coach as well as a Director of Team Development. In addition to his current role with the Patriots, Easterby has served in consulting roles for the National Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Southeastern Conference, the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, the United States Olympic Teams, as well as being entrusted with dozens of head coaching searches at both power five and mid major universities for multiple sports. He is a trusted confidant to players and coaches alike.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jack about the Patriots 2018 season, what it was like for him to return to Kansas City in the AFC Championship Game after serving there for a couple of seasons, what the spiritual climate of the team looked like this year and how Jack was able to help encourage players like Matthew Slater, Devin McCourty and Stephen Gostkowski in their faith.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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0:23.3	My name is Jason Romano.
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0:44.0	that you heard this podcast and the stories on the intersection of sports and faith. Today on the
0:50.7	podcast, we take a look inside faith in the locker room of the New England Patriots.
0:56.2	About a year ago, when the Patriots had advanced to the Super Bowl to take on the Philadelphia Eagles,
1:02.2	we had Jack Easterbeat on the show.
1:04.5	He is the New England Patriots character coach as well as their team chaplain.
1:09.9	And Jack was great on the podcast last year,
1:12.3	talking about what was going on inside that Patriots locker room,
1:15.8	about how Faith was a part of so many of those players' lives.
1:20.3	And Jack also shared in that podcast about how he came to be a character coach
1:26.0	on the staff of the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick.
1:29.6	So this year we wanted to bring Jack back because, of course, the Patriots are once again in
1:34.9	the Super Bowl. Three straight ears, four out of five, an amazing feat, watching them beat the
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