NFL Picks Week 9: Chris Simms’ Game-by-Game Predictions

November 3, 2016   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

A generation of football fans will grow up to know Jon Gruden as just some wacky Monday Night Football announcer. They need to know the truth. 
This is the same guy who had to draw perfect X’s and O’s before he could move on to installing a play. Gruden’s average weekly playbook? Somewhere between 200-300 plays. So you can imagine how long any given meeting would run.
Then there were the quizzes my first two or three seasons. He’d bring me up to the chalkboard the meeting before every game just to make sure his backup quarterback knew the 250-plus plays he installed.
You can take a guy like that away from the sideline. You can put him in a booth with a headset on. But he’ll always be a coaching maniac—and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. Gruden would do anything to give his team an edge. I want that guy on my sideline when I pick games for Week 9.
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