Jon Gruden Stories
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Jon Gruden tells his best stories from his time as an NFL head coach and discusses his opinions on the current state of the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight |
| 0:05.4 | reels starting now. Now, John Gruden on what bad football actually looks like. |
| 0:13.2 | Now, what is bad football? I hear all these people on TV talking about, what is bad football? |
| 0:20.1 | You know, bad football's bad ball security when you |
| 0:22.9 | when you see guys fumbling the ball careless ball security that is bullshit pre snap penalties |
| 0:27.8 | can't take three step penalties make me throw up i i stick my hand in the card door it doesn't |
| 0:32.7 | even matter anymore in college football bumble snaps fumbles what's all bad football |
| 0:36.6 | missed blocking assignments about a quarterback running a ball into a free safety blitz and getting the back smashed? That is bad. How about a blown coverage? You know, we shift over here, we motion. And how about not run into the ball? You know, how about not breaking the huddle? Not flat to downhill on an income. What about dropping passes? How about you catch the ball against the zone and you start |
| 0:59.2 | dancing around? Give vertical. |
| 1:01.0 | Get, you see what I'm saying? |
| 1:02.3 | So you've got to show all this bad shit to the players. |
| 1:06.5 | This is bad. Don't do this. Then I'll show a good clip. You see Edelman right here, slice these guys. That's a 14-yard game. He caught it for a four-yard game. That's 10 yards. He split them. Then you show somebody doing it bad. But lack of concentration. Bad football. What's the Mount Rushmore of bad football? There's only four of them. Bad meetings. Bad meetings. Bad meetings. Bad preparation. Bad attitude. |
| 1:31.6 | Selfishness. It all starts there. You can control some of this stuff. You got to walk into that |
| 1:36.4 | meeting thinking, oh yeah, I'm checking myself in to get better today. A lot of guys check in like, |
| 1:42.3 | God, I can't take it. I can't take Wednesdays. Fuck, |
| 1:46.0 | I hate Thursdays. You know what I mean? So it all starts. That's where it starts bad. And if it starts |
| 1:51.7 | bad, you got a hard time to really get it going. So you got to get some culture guys. That's why |
| 1:57.1 | your patriots are doing well. Spalane, have you ever been around Robert Spelaine? He would play on the Walt Whitman Bridge for nothing. You understand that? And so would Gibbons. And what's the other guy's name? Your other linebacker, I love him. You got him from Philly. Landry. Christian Ellis, Ellis. He's a badass. You know, but these guys will play for nothing. |
| 2:18.9 | But I think it starts there. |
| 2:20.6 | And then the drill work, when that horn blows, from the time we have Pat and Go to our individual has to be all about eliminating bad football. |
| 2:30.9 | You know, your stance, your start, right? |
| 2:33.5 | New routes. whatever it is. |
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