Never will forget being at the first game of the Cassel era in KC where we lost to the JaMarcus Russell-led Raiders on a day where he played one of the worst games I’ve ever seen a QB play. I think he was 7/25 or something, couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Was a sign of things to come in that era…
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The more and more I think about it, it seems like the Colts game was the last time EB "ran" the offensive game plan.
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Arguably the most impactful singular draft pick of the last 10 years implies he basically picked a team to go to the week after a former coach and current media personality says a draft lottery will be instituted?

:-)
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The podcast alone clears up a ton of myths that lead to trashing people unnecessarily

- Alex smith DID have a huge impact that goes beyond lip services. Turns out a good veteran CAN make a huge difference on mentoring a young qb

- bringing Nagy back was a great move. Even if I’m not sure if he can run his own offense he seems like a terrific fit for mahomes

- veach was very instrumental getting mahomes. I won’t knock Dorsey but that dispels a myth from those who won’t let veach take credit
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My guess would be it was actually just Andy playing coy with Pat. I mean he can't personally directly hand him the answers to the test himself, he had his teacher's aid do it. Just like professors do with college athletes. :-)

I mean really, if Andy gave it to him personally, that's showing his hand way too much. Nagy doing it kept it from being so obvious.
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That makes a good bit of sense.

And of course, Pat studied his ASS off and killed it, which might have been what they were after.

You suppose Kyler would have done that? LOL
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I really hope this is true because it's not only diabolical but it tests retention, desire, commitment and attention to detail.


I used to have a physics honors professor that would let us "cheat" on tests if we wanted.

It wasn't until the end of the class that he told us he subscribed to the theory that if you are cheating and think you're getting away with it you end up absorbing more information. And I have to say man did I learn a lot in that class via little notes and drawing graphs on my desk.
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Someone build a Matt Nagy statue directly in line with the George Brett statue.
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I remember a story from Raiders coaching saying they put a page in JaMarcus Russell's playbook that said "we know you're not really reading this" then asked him the next day if he did his playbook study. When he said he did they asked about page X and he replied something like "oh yea, got it, good play coach, we'll run that next game". :-)
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I think they sent him home with some film on a dvd that was actually blank, wasn’t it?
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Frankly, it's a pretty ideal 'test', no?

A QB that can wing it and get things 70% right is pretty damn impressive - but what if, after a day of study, he can only get it 80% right? What good does that do you? You don't build game-plans on the fly.

Meanwhile QB B in this scenario may only get it 50% right winging it, but after a night of study gets it 100% right.

Give me the latter guy every time - that's a dude that can absorb and retain information quick as a hiccup. And shows exceptional work ethic.
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So much for my memory. I looked it up and yea, they gave him blank tapes to study then asked him about it in the morning and he said he said he watched the blitz packages.
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JaMarcus got paid $40 million to be a lazy loser for 4 seasons. Must be a pretty awesome experience, lol
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Plus the Fields and Hurts offenses, like the RGIII and Wentz’ offenses, are one ACL tear away from being completely jeopardized as a long term solution.
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Nice work if you can get it.
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