“I’ve watched more film in the last year than I have in the last 10 or 12” AlbertBreer’s MMQB column leads with Matt Ryan’s transition to the Colts
• Insight into the other side of Aaron Donald’s Super Bowl–winning play from February.
He knew, for sure, that it’d take time, and for that reason, Ryan wasn’t going to impose his own beliefs or ideas on the coaching staff when he reported for the offseason in April. “It was refreshing that here’s a guy who’s been the MVP of the league, here’s a guy who’s led his team to a Super Bowl appearance, here’s a guy who’s incredibly accomplished at the quarterback position in every way, coming in here and wanting to use it as a fresh start,” Reich said. “And as you said, Albert, really putting it in the context of,
“Matt’s an incredibly smart guy, but one of the things I’ve continued to be impressed by—he doesn’t want to expand things, he wants to consolidate things,” Reich said. “It’s a little bit Peyton–esque like that: That may sound like a lot of football jargon, but there’s an easy way to explain what Reich’s saying. He likes to have a quarterback who can find a lot of answers with a certain play, knowing the more answers the quarterback can find within a play, the fewer plays the coaches will have to run.
So even though he arrived blown away by the Colts’ run game, and impressed with both Jonathan Taylor and the versatile Nyheim Hines within it, and intrigued with the size, length and physicality of tight end Mo-Alie Cox on tape, he knows more in June than he did in April.Oh, well, I knew about him, I didn’t know he was this good. Same thing with the receivers, I think there's a young group, obviously they’ve had some injuries there, but it’s a young group, it’s a talented, physical group.O.
The last three months have been an adjustment for Ryan, for sure. It took him two or three weeks just to figure out where everything was in the Colts’ facility and learn the names of the people he’d pass in the hall. “I think all the firsts you tick off along the way, whether it’s first game, first whatever, all those things will have that kind of feel.”
“Not even close,” Reich said. “I mean, not even close. He’s made so many throws. The way his throwing mechanics are flawless and it’s so effortless, literally reminds me of a PGA golfer who looks effortless in his swing. Like when the ball comes off the clubhead, the ball just sounds different, looks different, feels different, and then the golfer hits it where he wants to hit it. That’s the way I feel with Matt.
To this point, taking that approach, even when it comes down to the granular stuff, like the fourth progression in a concept in a June practice, has served them well as a coach tries to break through and stabilize his quarterback position—and a quarterback tries to breathe new life into his career in a second home, like Manning and Tom Brady recently did.
• Lawrence Taylor and Willie McGinest worked as pass rushers with Crennel when he was a defensive line coach. And Crennel was in the weeds back then with a smattering of really solid interior linemen like Leonard Marshall in New York and Ray Agnew in New England. And in working with all of them, Crennel’s hope is they saw a coach committed to making sure, at a baseline, all the basics were taken care of, which is a pretty underrated part of what made Bill Parcells’s and Bill Belichick’s teams so great over the years.
I was texting with Harrison over the weekend, and he wanted to be succinct with thoughts on a coach who helped him reach the mountaintop nearly a decade into his playing career. Here’s what he came up with: “Coach listened to his players, treated everyone with respect, always worked his ass off and always was prepared. I have a lot of respect for coach—allowed me to play with freedom and trusted me.
Still, he plans to watch, because he cares too much not to. And sure, that’s about the sport. But more so, it’s about all the people he’s affected within it.I still think the likelihood is a Deshaun Watson decision will come in July.that included more graphic details and an accounting of appointments booked by Watson with 66 different massage therapists certainly raised the temperature of the situation.
And thanks to Jack Del Rio’s comments last week, we have another off-field situation to address here—one that I think says more about where we are as a country than anything else. To recap, Kupp went from undersized high schooler, to zero-star recruit, to scout-team star in college, to record-breaking receiver at Eastern Washington, to third-round pick, to steady complementary receiver, to the skill-position centerpiece of a Super Bowl champion. Theis an acknowledgment of all that.
The salt in the wound, of course, was that Ramsey had stumbled and Chase was alone in the end zone when that happened. But my understanding now is, from the snap, Burrow was going to Chase the whole way. And given another half second? Maybe we’d have had a different result.
So … what happens now if the Dolphins use Hill to open things up for Jaylen Waddle and Mike Gesicki? Or if defenses dare the Dolphins to beat them with anyone but Hill? It’s an interesting question, I think, and one that could affect how Tua Tagovailoa sees the field. Stay tuned.reminded me of something I think not enough people are paying attention to.
• It also shows how wealthy you need to be to buy a team now, given that the Broncos’ price approached $5 billion. If you figure that means you’d need a net worth in 11 figures to join the club now, it’s worth mentioning that Forbes ranking listed 76 Americans being worth $10 billion or more. Walton will be the third NFL owner in that stratosphere, joining Panthers owner David Tepper and Rams owner Stan Kroenke.
• While we’re there, with that and a year in New England under their belts, over the course of the spring, both Nelson Agholor and Jonnu Smith have looked way more like what the Patriots thought they were getting in signing those two last year.
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