00:00Now that we've gotten to see a little bit of this offense
00:03through two OTA sessions,
00:04and we see that they're actually huddling up,
00:10one really funny note from Josh Connerly,
00:13the rookie right tackle.
00:14He said, because he played his college ball at Oregon,
00:19and then last year was Cliff System.
00:21He's like, dog, I don't think I've been really in a huddle
00:24since Little League.
00:25Because at Oregon, they don't huddle.
00:27And then last year with Cliff, they kind of did,
00:29but not like it is now, where there's way more verbiage.
00:32And the other thing Connerly told me,
00:36so one thing Blau has talked about is some of it's going to look new,
00:40but some of it's going to look similar.
00:42Blau, I think, to his credit, was like,
00:43we still did a lot of good things last year.
00:45I'm not trying to throw everything out.
00:47And I asked Connerly, I was like,
00:49so what's some of the stuff you'd like to see stick around?
00:52He's like, well, we ran outside zone really well.
00:55We just didn't do it enough.
00:57Spoken like a true offensive body.
01:00He spoke like everybody else that watched the damn football game too, right?
01:05Remember second and goal from the one in Minnesota?
01:07Yeah, we threw it like seven times.
01:09And I think we got a field goal.
01:11No, we didn't even score.
01:12No, they went for it on fourth down.
01:13Yeah.
01:13And then J.J. McCarthy went right down the field.
01:15That is the damn problem right there.
01:16Maybe if you ran the ball a little bit more,
01:19things would have been different.
01:21Agreed, Brian.
01:21So things will be different.
01:23And David Blau spoke yesterday and kind of talked about what this offense is going to look like.
01:30You know, I really do think, you know, as we grow, we're a sum of everything that we've kind of
01:37taken in.
01:37And so there's been things that I've really liked along the way from other places that we will certainly look
01:43like.
01:43There's things that we did here that I really like that you guys will see as well.
01:47So, you know, as a staff, that has been been the goal so that you can walk into this offense
01:53and say, well, why is it called that?
01:55And everybody in football always says, well, we've always done it that way.
01:58The goal was to eliminate all of that and build it from the ground up, the collaboration.
02:03And we're going to make the 26 commanders offense our own.
02:08So what does that look like to you, B?
02:10Maybe their own.
02:11So one thing about it is, if you look at most players in the league and you look at these
02:16offenses, all defenses, whatever, nobody comes in and does exactly what they've done their whole life.
02:24They do some of what they've done.
02:26They've seen some of what they saw somebody else do that worked and they implemented in their game.
02:31What he means is you're going to see a lot of what Ben Johnson did in Chicago.
02:37You're going to go back to what he did in Detroit.
02:40Because that's where he really began to cut his teeth to becoming that coach.
02:44Dude still, he talked about him as a player.
02:46They can see that that dude was going to the coaching mindset.
02:50But when you looked at the offense from 2024 and last year, there were things that Cliff did that actually
02:56worked.
02:57So if you can implement that in by doing some of that stuff from under center, it'll look different.
03:05Then you can go back in the shotgun and do it again.
03:07It's a different look.
03:09But a way of getting to it.
03:10So what he means, I'm going to get a lot of stuff that I think worked and I'm going to
03:15make it all into one offense.
03:18So if you look at it, it's not Detroit.
03:20It's not Chicago.
03:21It's not all of Washington.
03:22It's not where he might have been before that.
03:24It's a combination of those things put together.
03:27And it's the first time you've probably seen all those things together at one time.
03:29I want to open these phones up.
03:31800-636-1067.
03:33800-636-1067.
03:36It's really interesting to kind of think about what this new offense might look like in Washington.
03:42And I'm curious if there's any specifics people want to see.
03:46For me, it is motion.
03:48I want to see pre-snap motion because I think pre-snap motion.
03:53Go back and listen to Peyton Manning talking about playing quarterback and trying to learn as much as you can
03:59before the snap, before the quarterback.
04:02Totally.
04:02Identify coverages.
04:03And NFL defense has gotten really good at disguising what they do and kind of adapting on the fly.
04:09And that's why things have maybe gone from reads to progressions more.
04:13If you're interested in that, there's like a lot of cool information out there.
04:16But I think the offenses that do the shifts, pre-snap, do the motions, they can do what they want
04:25on defense by trying to disguise stuff.
04:28Once you start moving, they got to show you what's going on.
04:32And you watch some of these offenses, they line up, a guy goes in motion.
04:37As soon as the defense starts to adjust, they stop.
04:40And then you'll see a big shift.
04:43Ball snap.
04:44That defense had to identify what the hell they were doing.
04:47But if you just line up and you run it from where you line up, that defense is going to
04:53get you every time.
04:54Phone lines are open.
04:56800-636-1067.
04:57800-636-1067.
05:00Terry McLaurin has said plenty of interesting things.
05:04Terry's an insightful fellow.
05:05But one of the things he talked about with the offense, especially marrying the run in the pass game a
05:10little bit better,
05:11running more motion, running more play action,
05:15is it's better for Jaden, but it's better for everybody.
05:18Better for the O-line.
05:19It's better for the receivers.
05:21There's so much angst about, is this receiving core good enough?
05:25You know what's going to help every receiver?
05:27Play action.
05:29And like, routes that correspond more.
05:32Where maybe one guy's job is to take the safety with him as another dude comes underneath.
05:37And not to suggest that didn't happen in Cliff's offense,
05:41but like, there were so many hitches, there was so much short stuff in Cliff's offense.
05:46I mean, how many times did you scream about the bubble and then finally, like,
05:51do something off of it.
05:52Play the vertical route off of it.
05:53Like, the great offenses that you watch in this NFL and the great coaches,
05:58go back to Joe Gibbs and Eric Coyale,
06:01they ran a play, ran a play, ran a play.
06:03You know why?
06:03Because they were setting something else up.
06:06We went through a whole year and a half
06:09before they did anything other than that little bubble thing.
06:14You have to hit them with it soon because what happened,
06:18what started happening?
06:19People started to jump the bubble.
06:21There were times where we almost had that bubble pass intercepted.
06:25Well, hell, what's the guy, Gink, whatever, the outside linebacker.
06:30He did pick off one.
06:31Minnesota guy?
06:32Van Ginkle.
06:32Van Ginkle, yeah.
06:34I'm about to say Gink, Gink, Gink, Biloba.
06:36But Van Ginkle intercepted one.
06:39Why?
06:40Because there was no disguise in what we were doing.
06:43So if you all of a sudden go over the top, guess what?
06:46People stop looking for it and jumping it.
06:48They have to play the play now.
06:50They were able to jump based off of it.
06:52We were very, very, we showed people what we were doing, and we ran it.
06:55And eventually, guys took advantage of us.
06:58Sean is in Falls Church.
06:59Sean, what do you want to see out of this new offense?
07:02I want to see that under center.
07:05I mean, I'm excited to see what it looks like.
07:07You were talking about Peyton Manning.
07:08He was talking about it one time on Monday Night Football
07:10where he likes to be in the center because he can read the defense.
07:14He doesn't have to look down at the ball.
07:15That extra split second where he has to look down in the shotgun is just,
07:19I think it's huge, and I think it's going to allow, I mean,
07:22just Jaden to read the defense and be able to pick apart.
07:25You know, as long as he's healthy,
07:26I think he's going to be picking people apart a little bit more
07:28and a little bit faster, and it's going to be awesome.
07:31All right, man.
07:32Appreciate it.
07:32I'm with you, man.
07:33I think if you look at Caleb Williams last year
07:35with Ben Johnson running that offense, thanks for the call, Sean.
07:39His under center snaps jumped significantly.
07:43And honestly, the way Caleb plays quarterback,
07:47it's not a lot of quick identification of where his guy is.
07:50He runs around and he kind of plays.
07:54Backyard.
07:55Dude, the best comp in some ways for Caleb is like a weird evolution of Aaron Rodgers
08:02who would wait and wait and wait and just stay behind the line of scrimmage.
08:06He wasn't a runner, but he would make guys miss.
08:08And I think that was probably a harder transition for Caleb
08:11to try to identify things faster and be under center.
08:15Jaden, to me, has always been a super fast processor, right?
08:20Like he's like, what is it, quantum computing?
08:23I feel like Jaden has been on that level where he sees, identifies quick.
08:28And talking with everybody from yesterday at practice,
08:30like I always harp on this, like the hardest thing for quarterbacks to do
08:34is throw the ball where the receiver isn't and where he's going to be.
08:37But that's most college quarterbacks.
08:39I think Jaden came into the league with that skill,
08:42and I think that will be highlighted by being under center.
08:46Totally.
08:47Like the thing about like under center, you can be effective under center,
08:52you can be effective in the shotgun.
08:54But the under center does more disguising for you than being in the shotgun.
09:01When you're in the shotgun, you can only do certain things.
09:05That running back is going to be on the right side or the left side.
09:08And if the quarterback moves up into the pistol,
09:11you basically are telling them what you're doing, only a few things.
09:14When you're under center, and the running back could be anywhere.
09:17He could be on the left, the right.
09:18He could be right in the eye, he could be back there by himself.
09:23You don't know if it's a pass.
09:25You don't know if it's a run to the left, right, down the middle, whatever.
09:28Under center just does more disguising for you.
09:30And I think if you are going to put something in front of most middle linebackers,
09:35most defensive coordinators, and that picture that they see
09:39is based off of what you're going to do,
09:41and you've done the same crap over and over again out of the thing,
09:44they're going to pick it apart.
09:46But if that picture can be a multitude of things,
09:49they have to stop, wait, then react.
09:52And that hesitation will help you out on my phone.
09:55You get a lot more multiple formations, you allow for a lot more motion.
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