Humans Over Aliens and RGIII Over Gruden and Give the Points

It looks like the Washington Commanders will have to wait post-Conference Championship Games to hire a Head Coach.

There are more pressing issues. Such as the presence of 10-foot Alien Beings in Miami, Florida. Militias are being organized against the Alien A*@holes. Joe Biden plans to lead the troops. There is a run on rayguns and bobbleheads in Dolphin City.

If that is not enough levity for you, RGIII and Jay Gruden got into a bout of pro wrastlin'. I mean, if you have to choose between the two, I'd choose RGIII. 

It is not even close.

Jay Gruden never ran the football. He prefered his Quarterbacks to be drop back pocket imprisoned pretty boys who threw swing passes and fades and there was never any running game to keep the wolves off their backs. He apparently was brought in to fix RGIII's passing game. Doesn't look like he gave much of a pigskin, to be honest with you.

Gruden was going against trend though. RGIII initiated the Era we are now in in the NFL. The Mannings and Bradys, the sweethearts of Jay Gruden's Old Timey sensibilities, are gone. Mahomes, Jackson, Stroud, Allen. They are all runners. 

Gruden's guy, Kirk Cousins, who ran like a plucked chicken, threw picks in the end zone. He threw from structure. Into demolition.

And it seems to me the knock on the NFL at the time was its pocket passing self-adoration was putting a pay wall up against almost all of the available College Quarterbacks. Its stifling stereotypes about QBs are still depriving it of winning performances at the position. 

The Shanahans saw an opportunity in the running QB and they took it. Unfortunately, they broke Robert Griffin and Gruden didn't want their leftovers. Jay Gruden didn't want to teach anybody who didn't already know pocket passing. It insulted his intelligence.

Must have been too much work.

The fact remains RGIII's year was the Shanahans' best year in Washington. They smelled every other year. And that one year of good Shanahan was three times better than Gruden's best year.

Jay Gruden fundamentally misuderstands what a complete offense entails. He can analyze a passing game for you. But he wouldn't know a dive play from a bigfoot sighting. 

And even on Jay Gruden's best days calling plays Washington usually lost. And they lost more often than not because he would rather have each particularly tooth screwed out with a lug wrench than run the football.