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Jerry Schuplinski – September 3, 2019 Download PDF version

Monday, August 5, 2019

Assistant Quarterbacks Coach Jerry Schuplinski

(I’m kind of a student of the game. Do you look at tape much of quarterbacks from past years to try to pick up little things from them, or has the game changed so much now that you can’t put in a Dan Fouts or a Dan Marino or a Bart Starr before them tape and learn from them?) – “There’s always film to look at, and there’s always the – good quarterback play is good quarterback play. So whether it’s a guy like (Peyton) Manning or (Tom) Brady or (Patrick) Mahomes – I would say maybe a little more relevant in the last 10-15 years in terms of those guys. Some of that stuff, like when Dan (Marino) was playing, his drops were probably a lot different from the ones we’re taking now. It might have been more of a back pedal at times and things we may not be teaching, but in terms of maybe mechanically or shoulders and follow-through and all that stuff, it’s good. We’ll look at as much as we can. I would say that’s more of an offseason or spring kind of deal.”

(Have you seen much of QB Dan Marino in his prime?) – “Yeah, I’ve seen some. I’ve watched some here, actually. They have some on the system, so every now and then if I’ve got – not much – but if I’ve got a couple minutes of spare…”

(I’m curious if there’s a release in the NFL as quick as his release? There might be. I’m not sure.) – “He gets it out pretty good. Yeah, he got it out pretty good. I’m not sure. That’s a good one.”

(QB Dan Marino used to tell his receivers, “If you don’t think the ball is coming to you, it probably is.” That’s what he used to tell his receivers.) – “He’s an awesome guy. I’ve really spent some time with him here, getting to know him and talking about some quarterback stuff just in general. He’s been awesome. He’s a good guy.”

(But I’m curious about the historic stuff because there are some great quarterbacks in the 70s and 80s, and I wonder if you can utilize that today.) – “I would say probably more so in the last 10-15 (years) than going that far back, but we’re always looking for any…”

(What’s your earliest memory of the NLF?) – “I’ve been a huge fan, so let’s see, I was born in ’77…”

(1977, so you maybe remember Dan Marino in the middle of his career.) – “Oh, no question. I grew up in Cleveland, so I was a Browns fan. I remember they played down here – I think it was 1985 in the playoffs – and (Bernie) Kosar, I think they lost, but Dan was involved there.”

(I was a big Browns fan, too. Paul Warfield, Jim Ryan. In 1963, they shut out the Colts for the NFL Championship. Jim Brown, they had Leroy Kelly after that. He was a hell of a player, too.) – “My dad went to the NFL Championship game in ’64, I think it was, and then in 2014, this is kind of a great story. In 2014 – 50 years from then, he went to the Super Bowl when I was with New England, and we won the championship. So he was with his dad at the ’64 championship game, and 50 years later he was at the Super Bowl when we beat Seattle. So my first game I went to, I remember – I’ll never forget – I think I was maybe 7 (years old). I went to see them play the Jets at Cleveland Stadium. They got smoked. (Former New York Jets DE Mark) Gastineau sacked a few people, but it was just cool. It was really cool.”

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