Cousins has arrived

i don't think gruden is an amazing coach, but i think he's an honest and generally competent one.

The players love Gruden.

In my view Gruden got off to a rocky start. Early on he was impatient at the QB position (including Kirk), the team looked unprepared and/or out coached at times. His press conferences were an untapped stream of consciousness ramble and was far too honest with the media for my taste.

I got the impression that he was sharp with passing game Xs and Os in his system but was/remains inflexible in making major schematic adjustments (which is fine provided there is production without those adjustments) and he kinda had a disheveled and bumbling appearance in my eyes compared to his brothers hardworking grinder type persona.

He has improved in many regards, helped no doubt by a weak NFC and schedule, but Kirk was his main accomplish. Getting Kirk to play productive, consistent, winning football. I still have concerns over (a) how his focus, approach, scheme and plan impact the running game (b) the inability to capitalize off turnovers (c) a stubbornness/ predictability to aspects of the offense (d) lack of adjustments on the fly to adapt to good defense (against bad defense he'll destroy them)

On the whole the offense is good. The special teams and defense are playing much better. Hats off to Scott.

Jay is still a young coach and he has given me much more reason to have faith going forward then at the start of the season.

The players love Gruden.


Yup. They play for him. They believe in him. This cannot be overlooked no matter how you feel about his x's and o's. Which I am fine with anyway.

Jay should stay as long as kirk does, this appears to be the next Payton/Brees combo.

McVay may be even more important to Cousins than Gruden.

McVay may be even more important to Cousins than Gruden.


So earlier in the year Gruden was the playcaller and Mcvay was like an assistant. Or such was the talk on here(yes since I dont live in the DC area, my Skins news source is the WP), has Mcvay sort have stepped up on the control ladder?

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re Cousins new contract - I think he realizes this system is geared towards his strengths and he would not have nearly the same success in a diff system. also, gruden/mcvay put their coaching jobs on the line to give him this chance. i also feel like this high production level w very little picks can not be sustained over the long run and his numbers will start to regress back to his median .. still very very good but i dont see a brees/brady/rodgers/manning type production level. more like eli manning/dalton/ryan/flacco, which would be great over the long run.

An old article about McVay

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/06/09/players-call-sean-mcvay-a-genius-but-what-exactly-does-the-redskins-offensive-coordinator-do/

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I would love to see Gruden do a Madden impersonation, Caliendo style.