No one person gets to decide what their legacy will become. They can do all they can to set one up, but it’s others who dictate a legacy for you. They are the ones who remember, or forget. But if you could – even for a minute – try to articulate your legacy even in the midst of building it, what would it be?
“I have full confidence that my best is always ahead of me, but I’m really walking that, talking that, working for that,” Jarrett surmised.
“If I wasn’t great at my job, I wouldn’t still be sitting right here. And I am damn good at my job. Whether that’s zero tackles or zero sacks, or I get 10 sacks and 100 tackles, I do what is asked of me at a very high level.”
Good, bad, great, ugly, indifferent, Jarrett has been the same regardless. That’s what he wants people to understand about him if he could have the chance to write a little bit of his own legacy.
“My surroundings don’t dictate my effort,” he said, “and that’s the biggest lesson that I think my legacy can teach.”
This mentality is why, Morris said, one should try to be like Jarrett any chance you get, because you surely can’t be him.
“If you can pick anything up from him, even one small thing, it’s going to make you a better person, a better player, a better everything,” the head coach said. “And that’s the bottom line.”
His own mother, who’s never once missed a game of his, agrees.
“Grady is going to work if you’re looking, or you’re not looking,” she said. “That’s who he is.”
Reflecting on the last 10 years, all she wants for her son now is to be the best version of himself he can be.
“In every aspect of life,” Elisha said. “As a father, as a son, as an Atlanta football player, as a community advocate, as a philanthropist. Just that he’s the best version of himself.”
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