![]() ![]() ![]() "You're pressing," Carroll said in his office, before handing Jackson a book with a tennis ball on the cover. Stumped, Jackson requested a meeting with head coach Pete Carroll, who now coaches the Seattle Seahawks. "It was just a lot of pressure, and a lot anger and frustration," he said. Fans changed his nickname from "LoJack" to "NoSack." The following week, immediately after another sack-less game against Stanford, he learned that a close relative had been killed in a car accident. Jackson hadn't managed a solo tackle, much less a sack. Against Oregon State, in October, the Trojans gave up 33 points, and USC was knocked from the national title race. "I decided to go back, and part of that was to improve my numbers."īut eight games into his junior year, Jackson's sack total remained stuck at 16. "People were asking me if I was gonna leave after that year," Jackson recalled recently. Earlier that year, he had ended his sophomore season as a defensive end at the University of Southern California with 16 career sacks and his name high on a number of NFL draft boards. The fall of 2006 was not a good one for Lawrence Jackson. ![]()
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