Jay Gruden you are our only hope

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Originally Posted by punch it in

My bad - I did not mean he was a joke upon arrival. I gotcha now. I meant when he got here, as in his first year. Poor wording on my part. I totally disagree still about Shanny. Its been pointed out recently that Shanny did not develop RG-3 at all, he just put a system around him that he was capable of running. However not for the long term - defenses were going to learn to stop it the same way they have with kapernick and wilson at this point. Also due to the physical risks it would not have worked long term with Griff. Hell it didnt even work for one season physically that is.

I think Shanny saw from the beginning that RG is never going to be a pocket passer so there was no point in trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Shanny developed a system that worked and who knows how he would have modified it to stay ahead of the defense. I have read some articles that suggested Shanny did not want to draft RG but, as seems to happen too ofter in this organization, was over-ruled by the owner.

IMO Gruden got this job on the premise that he would develop RG into a pocket passer but I think Gruden now realizes how far away RG is from that goal. So now Gruden is in the tough place of having to get the team winning and keep 51 players happy while he works on the Herculean task of re-tooling RG's QBing. I'm not sure Skins ownership or fans will be patient enough to see if this project pans out.