I’m excited to start this next chapter in Florida and pursue my lifelong dream and put the work in to get there.
Believe in something enough to be willing to sacrifice everything for it.
Until we meet again MTL❤️
Kyle Shanahan says becoming an elite offensive coach required studying more defense, not more offense
“The best part where I feel like I got good, and separated myself from others was just, my dad always told me when I got into coaching, I always told him, ‘I want to call plays and be an offensive coach.’ And he always said, ‘Learn defense. Learn defense.’”
“That was the one thing that always stuck in my head as advice from my dad. My dad was so good at calling plays I was like ‘Alright, I guess I’ll learn defense’. When I was with Tampa Bay, they had the number one defense in the league, they had just won the Super Bowl because of it.”
“After I got all my work done with Jon Gruden. I spent so much time with the defensive staff. Monte Kiffin was the defensive coordinator. We had a small room it was basically just a trailer… Mike Tomlin, Joe Barry, Joe Woods, Raheem Morris, Rod Marinelli… I’d just sit in there and listen to how defensive guys viewed football.”
“In the meantime, I’m learning thousands of plays. So instead of just learning plays from an offensive perspective and going, ‘Oh, this is a really cool one…’ I was learning, ‘All right, well, this is hard on the defense if they’re playing this front.’”
“‘This is hard for that linebacker only if this is his responsibility.’ You start going: ‘I do like this play, but man, this play sucks versus this if they’re coaching their linebacker this way.’ You get an idea of how to attack people and how to attack rules. That was really fun for me. My offense was always predicated on what the defense was doing.”
“Everything I’ve ever put in fit… You learn everything. But it has to fit. It has to fit in what you’re attacking. It has to go with the theme. I’m not just trying to dial up plays. You’re trying to attack certain things and unlock certain things. And that’s a defense.”
“So you’ve got to understand that defense and how it all goes together. It’s still evolving. You never stop learning.”
The NFL’s starting quarterbacks ranked 1-32 entering this season, per @espn:
1. Josh Allen
2. Matthew Stafford
3. Patrick Mahomes
4. Lamar Jackson
5. Joe Burrow
6. Jordan Love
7. Brock Purdy
8. Jayden Daniels
9. Dak Prescott
10. Justin Herbert
11. Drake Maye
12. Caleb Williams
13. Bo Nix
14. Jalen Hurts
15. Baker Mayfield
16. Trevor Lawrence
17. Jared Goff
18. Sam Darnold
19. Jaxson Dart
20. Daniel Jones
21. CJ Stroud
22. Aaron Rodgers
23. Bryce Young
24. Cam Ward
25. Tyler Shough
26. Kyler Murray
27. Malik Willis
28. Geno Smith
29. Kirk Cousins
30. Tua Tagovailoa / Michael Penix Jr.
31. Deshaun Watson / Shedeur Sanders
32. Jacoby Brissett / Carson Beck
Don’t know if it’s just me but I’m a HUGE fan of:
Winning the turnover battle
Controlling the line of scrimmage
Hitting on explosive plays
Not allowing explosives
Rallying to the ball
Having sound special teams
Too far?🤔
#Commanders DT Johnny Newton suffered a torn pectoral and will be out indefinitely, per @Schultz_Report.
Newton, the former 2nd-round pick, had 5 sacks and 27 pressures last season. He becomes the latest major injury for Washington, which has also lost LT Laremy Tunsil.
Packers' QB Jordan Love on WR Matthew Golden:
"He's very hungry. Since he got here last year — you can tell — he wants the ball. He was able to stay patient, and now it's going to be his time to go out there and make these plays on the field."
CLASS ACT: #Commanders star WR Stefon Diggs is one of the only players in the league to show respect to photographers and the sideline personnel.
Most #NFL players run over photographers on the sideline and don’t even stop to help.
Diggs is a class act👏
I’m excited to start this next chapter in Florida and pursue my lifelong dream and put the work in to get there.
Believe in something enough to be willing to sacrifice everything for it.
Until we meet again MTL❤️
To get to call a city like Montreal home for 22 years of my life is truly a great privilege. Being raised in one of the greatest communities there is in the world made life in Montreal so special.
My time in Montreal was filled with great moments as well as some of the most challenging moments I ever faced. But I learned so much from those experiences and I’m grateful for it all.