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Jon GrudenJon Gruden

Wide receiver bubble screens are a waste of time and personnel

When you throw a bubble screen or a quick screen, I mean, how how many times do you see Jerry Rice run a bubble screen right now? You never saw Willie Gault run a bubble screen. You got these three Corvettes [Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, Rome Odunze]... Now let him run some routes and tell the quarterback to throw him the ball or get rid of the ball, but quit taking sacks.

This is a tactical preference, but Bears fans likely agree given the offense's failure with those plays.

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The 2024 Washington Commanders are frauds

Bernie Madoff. Sam Bankman-Fried. The 2020 election. The 2024 Washington Commanders. [Frauds]. Sometimes the haters are right. When the haters are right, you gotta say, great job haters.

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The Commanders finished 12-5, won two playoff games, and reached the NFC Championship Game — their best season since 1991. Not frauds.
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Kliff Kingsbury's offenses inevitably decline in the second half of every season

This gets at going back to Kliff [Kingsbury]'s entire existence in the second half of seasons. So back at Texas Tech, here's his record as a head coach... His offense looks completely different right now. We had Austin Ekeler. That's pretty much it.

The Commanders did experience a slide in the second half of 2024, finishing 1-4 in their final five games.
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Jaden Daniels will be a very good NFL quarterback, but rookies don't win Super Bowls

Jaden Daniels will be a very good quarterback in this league. Jaden Daniels is just still a rookie. And that's something that I think was very evident tonight... But Jaden Daniels I don't think is, as a rookie, a Super Bowl winning quarterback. 'Cause no rookies are Super Bowl winning quarterbacks.

It is a historical fact that no rookie starting quarterback has won a Super Bowl.

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Baker Mayfield would be the NFL MVP if the season ended today

We were on that Fox show and they asked me who I thought the MVP would be and I said, if we did it today, it'd be Baker. And I just compare him to Brett Favre when we were in Green Bay. He brought life to the huddle.

Subjective mid-season evaluation.
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The Eagles lack the chemistry and caring for one another that they had during their Super Bowl run

The Eagles aren't the same team. The chemistry of the team is not the same... They're not as good because the players that won the Super Bowl aren't there. And offensively... It just doesn't look like they care a lot about each other right now.

The Eagles struggled down the stretch in 2024 and 2025, validating many of the 'bad vibes' reports that Gruden is echoing here.
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The Falcons are for real because their defense and young offensive weapons have reached elite status

I like 'em man. I like 'em... What they did coming back, beating Washington, going on a buy and coming back and taking it to Buffalo on national television... I think they have a lot firepower, man. Drake London is starting to play like Andre Johnson. Kyle Pitts is showing why he was the top 10 pick.

The Falcons won the NFC South in the 2025 season, making Gruden's belief in them largely correct.

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