JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone thought he was going to have a normal day in early March until someone poked his head into his office and offered some devastating news.

Linebacker Paul Posluszny was in the building, and he was wearing a suit.

“I’m like, ‘This is not good,’” Marrone remembered.

Posluszny being at the team facility in the offseason was not unusual -- he’s there pretty much every day to work out -- but the tie and dress shoes meant Posluszny wasn’t there to lift. He was there to deliver a message, and it was one that Marrone didn’t want to hear: After 11 seasons, Posluszny was ready to retire.

Paul Posluszny will be honored Monday with a retirement ceremony at the Jaguars' team facility. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP

He did it the same way he played: with class and respect for the game. Posluszny spoke with Marrone, executive vice president Tom Coughlin, general manager Dave Caldwell, strength and conditioning coach Tom Myslinski, head athletic trainer Scott Trulock, equipment manager Jimmy Luck and pretty much everyone else in the building to let them know he had decided to retire -- and to thank them for everything they had done.

That -- as well as Posluszny’s emotional 740-word statement the team later released -- is what will stay with Marrone. Posluszny was a very good player -- he’s second in franchise history with 973 tackles -- but his professionalism is what Marrone raves about.

“I asked him, I said, ‘Are you sure?’” Marrone said. “I want this person around. You want to hire this guy. You want this guy around your football team in some capacity, some way, and I think there’ll be a time down the road where that comes, but he says, ‘Even if everyone thinks I can play, in my mind if I go out there and I see a play that I could have made the year before and I can’t make it now, I couldn’t live with myself.’

“That’s some heavy s--- right there. People go, ‘I’m sure they would have taken him back. They would have paid him X amount. He would have made that money. He would have made that team.’ It’s above that for him. That’s what I love.”

Posluszny will be honored Monday with a retirement ceremony at the team facility. Here are some memorable highlights of Posluszny’s seven seasons with the Jaguars: