Just popped in this morning to check any latest "informative" tidbits on Chiefs Planet, prior to work, but kind of disappointed. Looked to be some recent comments in this thread, so I looked in. But, if there ever was a large segment of late, that should be moved to the appropriately named "Romper Room", some of these posters, definitely fit the bill. I read very few recent updates or comments pertaining to Mahomes, truly sad.
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“You’ve got to remember, this guy played baseball in the spring most of the time. He really hasn’t been a full-time football player for very long. So I think a year of fundamental work, a year of conditioning, is going to help him launch his career a year from now and really (help him) be a guy that can take the reins.”
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“I didn’t have any influence on (the decision to take him), I know that,” Gruden said. “But we always talk about players in the draft, things that are going on in the league. Andy and I go way back. He’s one of my really good friends. I’m sure Mahomes’ name did come up.”
“I’m on record … on (one of) those (ESPN) shows, they put me on the stage and said ‘Who ya takin,’ and I said ‘Mahomes,’” Gruden said. “I can’t find guys that can do what he does in terms of his overall arm talent.
“I said if I could have one guy, I’d pick Mahomes.”
Gruden also noted that Mahomes was fun to be around. Half the battle of playing quarterback in the NFL is how you carry yourself.
“I’d enjoy going to work and seeing him everyday,” Gruden said.
Mahomes’ gunslinger tendencies have also elicited both veiled and direct comparisons to Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre. It’s a notion Gruden — who, like Reid, was on Green Bay’s coaching staff during parts of Favre’s heyday — has also made publicly and obviously doesn’t take lightly.
“I haven’t said that very often, and that’s a comparison you don’t like to put on anybody,” Gruden said. “But we were there for the beginning of Favre and there are a lot of similarities in the way they play, the way they see the game and the way they throw the ball.”
“You have to train your receivers a little bit differently now, because we’re dealing with not only a man that can scramble, but you’re dealing with a man that can reach you in any zip code at any time,” Gruden said. “So (receivers have to) stay alive and really work hard on the scramble drills and understand he’s going to give you some opportunities down the field, so you either make a play on the ball and catch it, draw the flag, or play DB and make sure they don’t get it.
“It’s an exciting thing to have. I think the receivers will enjoy it.”
Gruden added Mahomes isn’t just a deep-ball passer.
“He’s a good, accurate, intermediate passer, and he carried the ball over 300 times, scored 20 touchdowns rushing, so he can still dabble in the zone read that Andy Reid likes to use,” Gruden said. “He’s just going to have to learn how to handle the running game, how to administer these protections and get everybody lined up in a very challenging pro-style offense.”
“I think when you’re around Mahomes, you realize that this is not the same ‘Red Gun’ or ‘Air Raid’ offense that they’d been running with Graham Harrell and Kliff Kingsbury,” Gruden said. “They do a lot at the line of scrimmage, they give this kid a lot of freedom to recognize the coverage and hand-signal routes, and they do it a lot, it’s not just a little bit.
“He gets to the line of scrimmage play after play after play, and a vast majority of the time, he’s got the freedom to recognize the defense, communicate what he wants done and then he can thrash you. That’s something he’s well known for already, and he’ll be a quick study, because he’s very interested in being great.”
“He’s in a perfect situation,” Gruden said of Mahomes. “He’s 21 years old, he’s a true junior … he is nowhere near a finished product, mentally … and certainly, he’s not a finished product physically.
“You’ve got to remember, this guy played baseball in the spring most of the time. He really hasn’t been a full-time football player for very long. So I think a year of fundamental work, a year of conditioning, is going to help him launch his career a year from now and really (help him) be a guy that can take the reins.”
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