Ken McKusick

Somebody asks about a player coming back from pump.

There is no one on earth who needs to know about that when that player is coming back from pump.

All of the things that go with that.

And just because you have good news to give doesn't mean you should give the good news.

Just hold back on it and don't give it away.

So I think he's asymmetric and he wants to give good news.

He wants to be liked, which to me is a weakness in terms of his communication style there.

What you really notice is when he talks about individual players is if he's salty, that guy's about to be gone.

The player is not long for this world because almost nobody is salty about most players.

It's a positive thing.

And when he gets super effusive, those are the players he really likes.

So he'll go to alliteration or go to some other obviously rehearsed communication technique to tell you how he likes that player.

Yeah.

Um, you know, the other thing we didn't talk about from early is I don't think he ever got enough credit for being the first of his kind to really build the offense around a mobile quarterback.

So we had mobile quarterbacks before in the league.

I mean, Randall Cunningham, Michael Vick, Vince Young, they were around and it's been three decades of mobile quarterbacks before Lamar Jackson really arrived.

And, and some would, some old timers would say, Oh, there's even more if you go back to guys in the fifties and things like that.

But I,

Those guys are well-known mobile quarterbacks who could also throw the football a little bit, but they never had offenses built around them like Lamar Jackson did.

Lamar Jackson's success is largely built on the fact that John Harbaugh was completely behind this as a way to switch from Flacco to Jackson, made it as easy as he could for him, and Jackson really flourished in the system.