Robert Mays

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537 appearances 7 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Best of the Bears: Caleb Williams seeks another jump in Year 3 · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

In Detroit before he was hired as the tight ends coach the following season.

So you're talking about a guy that this was only six years ago.

So in his mid 30s, a guy that I think correctly is identified as one of the best offensive coaches in the league was out of the NFL altogether.

I think he correctly is of the opinion that he has had to scrap and claw to get where he is in a way that maybe some of those other guys didn't, where they were attached to the right coaching trees, they were attached to the right people, and things might have come a little bit easier for them.

I don't think he's misguided in thinking that, and I think that potentially is driving a lot of what you're talking about.

I think the goal for any coach in the NFL, offense or defense, is whatever situation we're in, whatever group of players I have on the field, I can do anything.

considering all of the variables.

That's what the Rams did such a good job of for years when they were just in three wide receiver sets on every single play.

There were no tells.

There was no way to kind of gain information about what the tendencies looked like because when they have the same 11 players out there every single play, they can do anything.

And I think that teams that go under center more allow you to do this.

Teams that are in nickel all the time in the way that Seahawks were, they allow you to do this on defense.

And I think Ben has taken that to a situational play calling place and

where he's going to throw the ball and run the ball and not equal numbers all the time but he's going to make you defend every single option in every single down and distance situation because of how he approaches it and i think it's just a baseline way of making yourself as hard to defend as possible and he's consistently done it and i think it's he's consistently done it to the benefit of the offense

I think the really good defenses are going to make you run it.

They're going to make you prove that that initial premise that you just said where, okay, if you're going to go light.

So we're at a place where teams played more defense last year, more base defense last year than they had in a really long time, in part because offenses were using more two and three tight end sets.

And I think that, in a way, is what offenses want you to do.

Offenses are putting those big bodies on the field so you match with big bodies so they can throw the ball and create explosive plays.

That ultimately is what they're trying to do.

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