Russell Wilson’s QB coach Jake Heaps on “Let Russ Cook”, a Buffalo Bills Team Visit with Matthew Fairburn, and examining the Arizona Cardinals Offense in Ted Nguyen’s Film School
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
To kick things off, Robert talks to Jake Heaps, Russell Wilson’s personal QB coach, about the “Let Russ Cook” movement, Russell’s evolution into arguably the best player in the league, honing his off-platform skills, and much more.
Then, in this week’s team visit, The Athletic’s Buffalo Bills writer Matthew Fairburn joins the show to discuss the team going 1-2 over their last three games, following a 4-0 start to the season, Josh Allen’s play in recent weeks, how the underperforming defense can turn things around heading down the stretch, and more.
Finally, in Ted Nguyen’s Film School, the guys break down the Arizona Cardinals Offense, including the differences between Kliff Kingsbury’s NFL playbook and what his Air Raid scheme looked like in college, what defines the team’s passing game, Kyler Murray’s comfort level in this offense, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:17.9 | We have a great show for you today. |
| 0:19.8 | Matthew Fairburn, who covers the Bills, is going to be here a little bit later to do our weekly team visit. Talk about Josh Allen, what that team has looked like for the first half of the year. Tedwin is going to join us later to talk about the Arizona Cardinals offense. As part of Ted Wins Film School, we're going to talk about Cliff Kingsbury's background, what his offense looks like in the NFL, how those things kind of diverge and what this team has looked like during their five and two start. |
| 0:42.4 | But before we do any of that, coming into the year, Russell Wilson was a pretty big topic of conversation around football circles. |
| 0:50.7 | The Let Russ Cook movement had been pretty much everywhere and people encouraging |
| 0:55.9 | the Seahawks to throw the ball a little bit more. And we have seen it. Russell Wilson in some |
| 1:00.4 | ways has owned this season so far. He has 22 touchdown passes. He's on course to break the |
| 1:05.8 | record. He leads the NFL in tons of advanced numbers. It really does feel like he's been the best player in football through the first seven |
| 1:13.9 | weeks. |
| 1:14.7 | And because of that, I wanted to have on Russell's personal quarterback coach, the head coach |
| 1:19.9 | of his quarterback academy, somebody who's played with him in the NFL. |
| 1:24.2 | Jake keeps, Jake, thank you so much for doing this, man. |
| 1:26.5 | I really appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. I was fired up to come on with you and excited to talk and dive a little bit deeper into what's been going on here with Russell. I just feel like he really has Owen the years so far. I mean, he's doing it in prime time. He's just in the forefront of our minds as football fans. |
| 1:48.1 | And this was a chance to really just dive into all things Russell Wilson. |
| 1:50.4 | I mean, what is the best player in the NFL? |
| 1:53.7 | How did he get to this point, the best player in the NFL this season? |
| 1:54.8 | How did he get to this point? |
| 1:57.3 | So let's just go back through some of your background. |
| 2:00.7 | You met Russell and were on the Seahawks with him when? I was on the Seahawks |
| 2:02.8 | within my second year in the NFL. So it was 2016 and then was on and off the roster through |
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