Gruden: John Beck reminded me of Marc Bulger

Jon Gruden, the ESPN commentator and former Tampa Bay head coach, hasn’t seen John Beck play recently and was looking forward to calling Thursday night’s game between the Redskins and the Ravens. Gruden, annointed something of a quarterback guru by ESPN, said he hadn’t seen Beck play, except for some film of his games in 2007 with the Miami Dolphins and tape of Beck at BYU. Like most head coaches, Gruden spent a lot of time that spring studying the draft’s top quarterbacks. “When he came out, it wasn’t a great year for quarterbacks,” Gruden said in a phone interview Thursday afternoon. “I spent a lot of time at LSU with JaMarcus Russell. I spent a lot of time at Notre Dame with Brady Quinn. I watched Trent Edwards and Stanford in the Senior Bowl.” Read full article >>