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RICHMOND Kyle Wilber Jersey , Va. (AP) — Helping Todd Bowles get a Super Bowl ring was just the beginning of Doug Williams’ lifelong assistance for the New York Jets head coach.

Their relationship goes back to 1986 when they were Washington Redskins teammates and neighbors. They lived down the street from one another about a mile and a half apart, and their connection has only grown closer in the three decades since.

Bringing his Jets to Redskins training camp for joint workouts with his former team has brought back fond memories for Bowles, who played seven of his eight NFL seasons with Washington and won the Super Bowl when Williams was MVP in January 1988. His ties to Williams, the Redskins’ senior vice president of player personnel, helped make the joint workouts happen, and Bowles said he owes his ex-teammate for putting him on the road to becoming Jets coach.

“He got me into coaching,” Bowles said. “He gave me my first job at Morehouse College. I was the D coordinator. We remain very good friends to this day.”

Bowles will coach against the Redskins in Thursday night’s preseason game, and he’s still not revealing if rookie Sam Darnold will start over Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater after the third overall draft pick’s impressive debut and work this week.

Richmond wasn’t the site of Redskins training camp when Bowles played, and FedEx Field isn’t the same as old RFK Stadium, but simply being around the Redskins took the former safety down memory lane.

“Just seeing the burgundy and gold has been great,” Bowles said. “Obviously the Super Bowl Jordan Phillips Jersey , but it’s more so the guys I played with: the Darrell Greens, the Charles Manns, the Dexter Manleys, the Wilber Marshalls, the Alvin Waltons and all those guys I played with are really the fondest memories I have.”

Training camp looked like a reunion from Washington’s Super Bowl era with Bowles in Jets green, Williams overseeing practice and the likes of Darrell Green and Brian Mitchell around. It has been 25 years since they were teammates, yet Mitchell said Bowles is “the same guy he was when he played.”

It has been a long time, though, and a long road for Bowles to get here. Williams gave him a good push.

The two scouted the same area when Bowles was with the Green Bay Packers in player personnel and Williams worked for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the mid-1990s, and Williams made his Bowles the defensive coordinator at Morehouse College as one of his first hires in 1997. Bowles followed Williams to Grambling State before bouncing around as a defensive assistant for seven NFL teams.

Williams moved into the front office, but Bowles stuck it out and at age 54 is going into his third season as Jets coach. He doesn’t feel like he’d be in that spot without Williams Ryan Schraeder Jersey , and the Jets certainly wouldn’t have been practicing with the Redskins if not for their relationship.

“Just coming back seeing Doug is great because Doug was very close to me,” Bowles said. “I talk to Doug all the time, here and not here. He had a part in (arranging the workouts). He had a big part in it.”

Bowles credits Williams for putting him on this path, but his appreciation for the Redskins extends to two Hall of Famers: general manager Bobby Beathard and coach Joe Gibbs. They signed him as an undrafted free agent out of Temple in 1986 and gave him the starting free safety job in his second year.

“They signed me and they gave me a chance, so playing for the Redskins is something I’ll never forget,” Bowles said. “They gave me a chance to meet a lot of people. They gave me a chance at a career that I probably otherwise wouldn’t have had. So it’s always going to be a special place.”

Notes: Bowles was angry that receiver Terrelle Pryor revealed he broke his ankle in May. Bowles said Pryor should keep his mouth shut and told him as much. Pryor is not expected to play Thursday against his most recent team.

If Allen Robinson remains in Jacksonville, it won't be as one of the highest-paid receivers in the league.

The Jaguars declined to use the franchise or transition tag on Robinson, stirring questions about his future. NFL teams had until Tuesday afternoon to tag pending free agents, but Jacksonville executives told Robinson long before the deadline he would not be tagged.

Had the Jags tagged Robinson, he could have signed a one-year, $15.982 million contract for 2018. Not doing so indicates how top executive Tom Coughlin and general manager Dave Caldwell feel about Robinson; they don't believe he is worth that much money six months after reconstructive knee surgery.

Pittsburgh's Antonio Brown ($16.775M) is scheduled to make the most of any receiver in 2018.

Jacksonville and Robinson still have a week to reach a contract agreement; the team has exclusive negotiating rights with him until March 12. If no deal is reached by then Jack Crawford Jersey , Robinson would become an unrestricted free agent on March 14.

"I don't really know what is going to happen," Robinson recently said. "I know there are a lot of different scenarios. Right now, my main focus is to kind of let my agent narrow it down and for me to get back at 100 percent. That's the main focus right now for me. I know I'll be back at 100 percent.

"I know all that is going to play out. I know the player that I am. I know that the plays that I made. I know the plays I'm going to continue to make."

Robinson had the best training camp of his career in 2017 and looked like he would be an integral part of the offense. But the 2015 Pro Bowl selection tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Jacksonville's third play of last season and had surgery the following week.

Robinson is how running again and closing in on a full recovery.

"He is right on schedule," coach Doug Marrone said last week at the NFL scouting combine. "He is there every day; I see him quite a bit. I know that he has worked hard. We have all seen his work on the field and how hard he works on the field. I think what you can't see is that he is working twice as hard in the recovery process and the rehabilitation."

Still, Robinson has missed 21 games in four seasons and wasn't a speedster to begin with. So how effective will he be coming off a major knee injury?

"There are a lot of things we like about him, but we just have to make sure it is the right thing for the team," Caldwell said at the combine.

A second-round draft pick from Penn State, Robinson has 202 catches for 2,848 yards and 22 touchdowns in 43 games. He had 80 receptions for 1,400 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2015, establishing himself as one of the best receivers in franchise history.

But he caught 73 passes for 883 yards and six scores in 2016 Russell Bodine Jersey , causing some to wonder if his Pro Bowl season was a fluke.

If the Jaguars do move on from Robinson, they would have a huge hole to fill at the position. Marqise Lee also is a pending free agent, and the team likely will either part ways with receiver Allen Hurns or re-negotiate his contract that includes a base salary of $7 million in 2018.

"Nothing has been decided on that yet," Caldwell said. "We will look at that."

Robinson has said repeatedly he wants to stay in Jacksonville, especially since he played a cheerleading role during the team's breakthrough year and believes the Jags are poised to make another Super Bowl run in the near future.

"This is where I've been the last four years and this is something that we've all really put in and tried to build," he said. "It wasn't something that we just came into and it happened. We went from 3-13, to 5-11, 3-13 to now. It's just one of those things that, again, I stepped in here Day 1. It was a lot different than it is now."

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