“Impact was in a rebuilding phase and they needed someone that wore a lot a hats,” Jacobs recalled. “To their end, I could work how I wanted to work, which isn’t asking too much.” Jacobs says that little quirks like sitting on the floor to do work would usually lead to ridicule from Vince McMahon, but Impact was much more relaxed, saying he wanted to be judged solely on his work and not by his various quirks. Jacobs says he loved his time in Impact, but after 5 years he began to get burnt out on writing wrestling shows.

“It was time [to leave Impact],” Jacobs said. “I had done what I was gonna do there.” Jacobs said he intuitively knew that his time in Impact was over before he even put in his request to leave, as he felt the company needed new creative blood after 5 years of the same creative team. Jacobs found himself burnt out on his creative work in Impact, and received a call from Bryan Danielson to join AEW and ROH. “Mostly what I do is I format the shows and I organize information and communicate information,” Jacobs said of his AEW/ROH tenure. “It was never supposed to be a creative role, like I said, I was burnt out.” The former ROH World Tag Team Champion says he’s grateful for the low-stress job that he has now.