John Gruden
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989 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 25 Mar
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Now let him run some routes. and tell the quarterback to throw him the ball or get rid of the ball, but quit taking sacks.
Yeah, there's like a couple guys that I would feel comfortable in the entire NFL being like, yeah, that's like Khalil Shakir. He can run a quick screen. Rasheed Shahid. Rasheed Shahid. He can run a quick screen. It feels like sometimes offensive coordinators are like, oh, we haven't run a wide receiver screen in a while. Let's just do it to do it. And it's like, what the fuck?
They just always get guys. And you can't run them if your wide receivers aren't committed to blocking. That's the thing that drives me nuts is when you run a quick screen and the wide receiver's not blocking.
and then you run a fake quick screen and you act like you're blocking and you take off. You know, the playbook has become what you see on Friday night football in high school, you start to see on Saturday. Everybody's clapping their hands, running RPOs, and now you're starting to see that on Sunday. That's why it's a pleasure to watch the Lions. It's a pleasure to watch the Chiefs.
You know, some of these offenses that are really doing it the old-fashioned National Football League way, I think those are the teams you're going to be talking about. here in December.
You know, I did get to go there for about a week in training camp. Andy Reid invited me up there, and you're right, man. They got a great coaching staff. I mean, Dave Tobe, the special teams coach, Spagnuolo, they get all the ink because they're the coordinators. I'm talking about the position coaches.
Their drills, their team periods, their competitiveness on the practice field, their organization's phenomenal. They're winning games in their preparation. Fans don't see them on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. They have a contingency plan. If they lose this player, we're going to play like this. If we lose this player, we'll play like this. If the left tackle isn't quite ready, we'll do this.
But they do have a well-orchestrated contingency plan. I think they're only getting stronger now. pacheco's coming back on the practice field juju smith schuster's back the last time he played he had over 100 yards against the saints and they're going to get a menahew a very good pass rusher back so i think they're going to get stronger and stronger but
You know, what they do is they just kill you with their preparation, their contingency planning for if it doesn't go the way they want, and their mental toughness. They got a great coach. They got a great quarterback and a great kicker, and their defense is on fire.
Yeah, they are. It doesn't matter how you win. It doesn't matter how many you win by. You just keep winning. And Mahomes feels like that guy where every Chiefs game kind of goes the same, where it's like their offense looks a little clunky, and then there's a third and eight, and he'll find a way to get it.
Yeah, the thing that's really startling is how quick he's throwing the ball. You don't see him throw the ball over 20 yards in a game sometimes. And here's Pat Mahomes. I had him on Gruden's QB camp. He can throw better left-handed than I can right-handed. I mean, this guy's a magician. I mean, he can really wing it. Yeah. But you don't see seam patterns, go balls, deep breaking routes.
Everything has been quick, but they are converting 52% on third down, which is way better than everybody else statistically. And I just think they're about to explode.
So Gruden QB camp, which you got to bring it back. Maybe that's part of what happens with Barstool here. Was there ever a guy who you walked away from? You're sitting doing film and you're like, I don't think that guy's got it. And then he went in and ended up being a great pro.
You know, I did 63 shows. Yeah. So we had a lot of quarterbacks come down the pikes, you know. No, not really. There were a few guys that came in and said, damn, I like that guy. Who were those? Well, I mean, I loved Russell Wilson when he came in out of NC State. We made fun of his size.
Well, Wisconsin. He came out of Wisconsin.
Well, yeah, Wisconsin. I was smitten with him. Matter of fact, I got to talk to Pete Carroll during the draft process, and they had just signed Tavares Jackson. They had Flynn.
And he asked me about Russell Wilson. I said, if you take this kid, and I said, if you bring him into your team, And give him a chance. He'll beat both those guys out. And that's just what he did. The other guy I love was Kirk Cousins.
And I still stay in touch with Kirk Cousins. Yeah. And they drafted RG3 in the first round. I remember telling Bruce Allen, I said, this guy's a sumbitch now. Be careful of Cousins. And look where he is. Yeah. He's had a great career. Great career.
Got paid a lot of money, too. He really has. And when I watch him play, there's not many guys that stand in there and take shots and deliver strikes like cousins. I mean, I love that about him, always have.
It is fair. I think the quarterback has to be bulletproof, at least the ones that are great that I've been around. Now, in privacy, the coach and the quarterback, they address those issues. But, you know, you've got to coach body language, I think. I've got to coach Dan on his body language.
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