00:01A more sound to play here on the show this morning, because this happened, I think, yesterday.
00:07Correct, Max? This was not while I was gone.
00:09This happened yesterday with Terry McLaurin on the Rich Eisen podcast.
00:16Correct.
00:16And he had a couple of things to say.
00:18This first thing was, you know, Terry, as we know, Terry is thoughtful.
00:25He is a good communicator, and his answers tend to roll on for a while.
00:32This was Terry on Rich Eisen's podcast yesterday talking about Jaden Daniels and his advancing of his leadership role in
00:42taking control of the new offense.
00:46How's your quarterback looking?
00:48Man, he looks really, really good.
00:50And since I know Jaden since he got drafted, he's always been a focused, determined, prepared player, young guy.
00:58But now he's a vet.
00:59And this offseason, you can tell he's taking even more of a leadership role, more initiative of, you know, putting
01:07his hands on the steering wheel of this offense.
01:09You know, I think it's no secret that Gladwell wants to build this offense around him, the things that he
01:14does really well.
01:14And, I mean, there's countless things he does well.
01:17And, you know, him being able to work under center and use more of the play action is only going
01:21to not only help him, but it's going to help the receivers, going to help the O-line, the running
01:25backs, the tight ends.
01:26And so I just think the biggest thing you can tell, his voice is becoming more and more loud.
01:31He's a very laid back person.
01:33But from getting us together, throwing in L.A., you know, before OTA started, to the way he's communicating in
01:40the meetings, him and I are having so many conversations, not only on the field, but through text.
01:47We were going into Memorial Day weekend.
01:50And, you know, Friday, guys are doing their plans.
01:52And he's texting me about a route that we ran that day.
01:55And I'm like, all right, five, like, we're kind of on the weekend now.
01:58Like, we could talk about this on Monday.
02:00But that's just the type of player he is.
02:03He's always locked in and focused on the task at hand.
02:05And you can just tell his personality is continuing to grow.
02:09And, you know, he's the leader that we want leading this team this year and every year.
02:14So it's just been really fun to be able to build with him.
02:17And I think for me it's been different because I think this may be the first year I've had the
02:21same quarterback starting for three years.
02:24And that continuity goes such a long way.
02:26And so him and I are really, you know, hitting a lot of early marks now in OTA.
02:32So I believe it's going to continue to build as we get throughout the offseason.
02:37Terry McLaurin on Jaden Daniels.
02:38You know, he said something there that reminded me of something.
02:42And I may have alluded to it already on the show today.
02:45But if I had not done that, I want to do it now.
02:48So I told you that when I got back yesterday from the vacation that I was on, one of the
02:53things I did do is I went and watched the pressers from last week.
02:58Jaden's in particular, Quinn's, a couple of others.
03:02Obviously, I saw the Ken Law stuff.
03:03We played some of that earlier.
03:04The one thing that struck me about Jaden Daniels in watching him up on the podium last week is there
03:12was an air of incremental confidence in his communication ability, in his comfort level.
03:25That's more of a comfort thing.
03:26I saw a guy up there that is, you know, entering his third year, not his first year, not his
03:32second year.
03:33He just looked more comfortable.
03:37He looked more engaged.
03:40You know, I've always felt in watching Jaden in these pressers, and it doesn't bother me at all because I
03:45don't care what he says.
03:46I only care about what he does as a fan of this team.
03:49But it's almost been a bit of a tooth pull with him during these press conferences.
03:56It looks like he cannot wait once he starts to finish it up.
04:01The answers are super short.
04:03It's not that he went on and on in his answers.
04:05He didn't necessarily.
04:07But I think he contemplated the questions more, tried to give a more complete answer, tried to give an answer
04:14that wasn't,
04:16how do I move on quickly to the next question so we can get through what my PR person told
04:22me would be about eight or nine questions and then I'll be done.
04:26And I didn't see that in watching him.
04:29He just looked, he looked more mature, looked more comfortable.
04:33That's good.
04:34It's fine.
04:34I don't care about the answers being like super exciting or super insightful.
04:40You know, I only care about the play on the field as a fan of the team and a big
04:45fan of his, which most of you know I am.
04:50I don't care if my quarterback is a scintillating press conference or not.
04:56Now, what's interesting about that is I do think over the years for me, it's observational and you'll pull up
05:03an example or two that will completely refute this, I'm sure.
05:07But I do think that those guys, a quarterback, specifically quarterback, that give you something that's interesting, that give you
05:16something that's more thoughtful,
05:18that really understand and process the questions, usually, you know, it's reflective of maybe a higher, you know, sort of
05:29intellect.
05:29And I think that's better than less intellect at that position.
05:32And I do, that was the other thing that I noticed with him.
05:36Like there was an effort that maybe didn't exist before, but a real ability as they've all told us about
05:44this guy.
05:45He processes quickly, he's incredibly intelligent, and then he's a grinder, you know, he's a gym rat.
05:53All of the, what I call, positives in, you know, what you want your best players to be.
05:59But I just, I thought it was interesting that Terry said some of those things because I thought that in
06:05watching him in that press conference.
06:07I watched it yesterday, I did not watch it last week when I was out.
06:12But, yeah, so we'll see whether or not that manifests itself into better health, more availability,
06:19and a season like he had in 2024 or better, but observational.
06:26This was Terry on Blau's, you know, offense and what it might look like.
06:32And there's so many new offenses and new offensive coordinators around the league that I'm fascinated to see, you know,
06:37how it plays out.
06:38Now, you're, you're, it was one of them, one of, you know, three in the division, as a matter of
06:44fact, you know, with the Eagles re, re, you know,
06:47hiring a new offensive coordinator, the Giants have obviously got John Harbaugh on the mix there now.
06:51And then there's you, you mentioned David Blau, the OC and the conversation about it's a more pro style offense
06:57that he's bringing in.
06:58You kind of just referred to it a little bit.
07:00That is what is happening.
07:01And what more meat can you put on the bones there of what it's going to look like?
07:06Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to give away too much, but I just know he wants to be multiple.
07:10And the first thing he said about our philosophy, he wants the same things that look different and different things
07:16that look the same.
07:17And what I take from that is you want things to marry together.
07:20You want formations that you could build off of.
07:22You have multiple formations that you could run same plays out of.
07:26You have different formations that you could give the defense a completely different look.
07:29But all encompassing, it all makes sense as an offense.
07:34You know, for a receiver, going from no huddle to a huddle, that's different.
07:39You know what I mean?
07:39It goes from a signal base to really being able to open your ears to what part of the play
07:43call is most important.
07:45I think I got to give Jaden a lot of credit because it seems like he's just really picked up
07:49the offense really quickly.
07:50And his calls out there when we're in OTAs are really clean and concise.
07:54So it allows the communication to be that much better.
07:57And so, you know, I've been benefiting through OTAs of having a lot of similar stems and formations that allow
08:06me just to manipulate defenses more,
08:09manipulate the DB a lot more and put them in a position of feeling like they maybe have to guess
08:14what I'm running because they just saw this same formation two or three plays ago.
08:19But it's a completely different concept.
08:20And as a receiver, that's music to my ears because you never want to feel like the defense has the
08:25upper hand on you.
08:26And, you know, I feel like with this offense, we'll have a chance to not only be on the attack,
08:30but also be able to get back to things in the games that maybe have been successful earlier in the
08:35first or second quarter.
08:36So I can't say enough great things about David Blau.
08:41He's an excellent communicator.
08:43He's been that way before he even got the offensive coordinator job.
08:46He's extremely personable and he's played the game.
08:49You know what I mean?
08:49He knows what it's like to be in our shoes extremely recently.
08:53And he knows the importance of putting playmakers in position to make plays.
08:55And he's been around so many talented offensive minds and offensive players.
09:01It's kind of seemed like it's come second nature for him to step into this role.
09:05And so even though this is his first opportunity, we're all excited to help support him and bring his vision
09:10to life
09:11because we all definitely believe that he has a chance to have a bright future in this league as a
09:15coach.
09:17Interesting stuff from Terry there.
09:20You know, pro style offense.
09:23He's talking about more under center, more play action pass attempts, more married run to pass.
09:29All of those things are true.
09:30I'll just completely, you know, stick with it's just a bit of a pet peeve.
09:36That's it.
09:36A bit of a nit to pick is when some of you refer to Cliff Kingsbury's offense as air raid
09:43or, you know, straight college offense.
09:46It's just not really an apt description of it.
09:49But, you know, go back and watch college football because I don't think you have if you actually think what
09:55Washington ran the last two years was air raid.
09:59It doesn't even resemble what they did in the two years in air raid offense.
10:03Um, but it will be different.
10:06And again, I think the number one big difference, the obvious difference will be more play action pass attempts, which,
10:14you know, really we've seen for a long time.
10:17You know, that Shanahan style, McVay style, Gruden style, Ben Johnson style, where you emphasis on marrying run to pass
10:27and, you know, using play action as the primary part of your pass offense.
10:33It's really hard to defend, uh, very hard to defend and, and that sometimes doesn't require, ironically, it doesn't require,
10:44you know, four or five yards per carry.
10:47It's interesting that, you know, back to the defense play action seems to work even when you haven't run the
10:56football well.
10:57Uh, I remember Cooley saying many years ago, and I thought it was such an interesting observation because it felt
11:03so intuitive as a football fan and watcher of football.
11:06He said, if your quarterback is really good at play action, selling that run fake, turning his back, protecting and
11:15hiding and masking the football, you don't have to be, you know, a four and a half yard average per
11:21carry team for play action to work because linebackers, that second layer of the defense.
11:28They tend to, when a quarterback turns and hides the football after a play action to react to it the
11:36same way, almost every time, even if you haven't been successful running the football, you have to attempt to run
11:46the football.
11:46That's for sure.
11:47You have to make them believe that even if you haven't had success running the football, you're going to run
11:55the football.
11:56Uh, but, uh, great play action isn't necessarily contingent on higher yards per carry averages.
12:06Always found that interesting about the play action game, but we're going to see a lot of it.
12:10And, you know, some people will say, well, you know, the old traditional non, you know, running non mobile quarterbacks,
12:18they need play action.
12:20You know, the Jared Goffs and the Kirk cousins of the world, they need play action.
12:25And God knows those guys have been incredibly effective.
12:29Kirk's been one of the better play action passers of his era.
12:33Uh, but it works for mobile quarterbacks too.
12:35And in many ways, it's even more effective when the quarterback is mobile and threatens the defense off of play,
12:45play action with his arm and legs.
12:48And that's the one play.
12:50Like if you, you know, even if, if you get the run game going and you see him on that
12:57stretch outside zone, play fake coming back the other way, keeping it on a bootleg where he's got the option
13:04to throw layer one, usually a tight end, sometimes a fullback.
13:08Layer two is wide receiver or that third level much deeper.
13:12And usually they work deep to short, but if nothing's there, can you imagine Jaden with nobody on the edge
13:21as he's coming off that bootleg fake, uh, that zone run fake on a bootleg.
13:26And he can easily run for 10, 15 yards, get out of bounds.
13:30If he can't throw it, we'll see a lot more of that.
13:34That is for sure.
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