Cousins has arrived

[MTK]

The players love Gruden.

[30gut]

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.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by MTK

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.

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by MTK

The players love Gruden.

Jay Gruden is a player's coach...his brother was a great his coach and his father was a head coach.... so I knew he had what it took to be a head coach.... last season he was dealing with the baggage from the Shanahan regime. And as a rookie head coach last year he could do no better than he did.

I think he's ascending as a head coach now.