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Josh Grizzard – September 2, 2020 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Wide Receivers Coach Josh Grizzard

(I’m trying to get a sense for coaching philosophies and coaching approaches for all the guys who are in a new role for the first year, so I guess the one I would ask you is what do you think are the keys to helping a player reach his potential?) – “I would say to make sure these guys are consistent and find ways to motivate each guy; and I think the key to that is you can’t coach one guy the same way that you can coach another guy. So does that mean you can be hard on them on the practice field or the meeting room, or do you need to pull him aside and know that he doesn’t really appreciate being called out, but he’d rather, ‘just tell me on the side what I need to do.’ And being able to figure that out from my end, I think then helps them because it allows them to maximize their potential. And just making sure they’re stacking good days back-to-back, making sure that if there is a bad day that you don’t come back with another bad day; so finding ways to improve what you did the day before. Again, each guy is a different story.”

(I guess when we first saw RB Malcolm Perry out here, he was still transitioning to receiver and now we’ve seen a few highlight plays from him already through practice and scrimmages. Where have you sort of seen his kind of evolution and where is your comfort with him playing receiver at this point?) – “He’s done a nice job and it’s a testament to him that he just works his ass off all the time; so for him to be able to come in here and make that transition from playing quarterback has been – it takes time to get a feel for routes and coverages and things like that, but what he does a good job of is not making the same mistake twice. So if you see something wrong on one play, ‘hey man, you didn’t do it quite how we wanted it,’ he does a good job of walking through it on his own and coming back the next day and improving on that and then filing it away for, ‘okay, this is how this needs to be done the next time.’”

(I did want to follow up again on RB Malcolm Perry. At what moment did you realize during training camp that hey, this kid may be a player from what you’ve seen so far?) – “I don’t know if one thing stuck out during training camp, but I actually coached down in the East-West Shrine game back in January and had a chance to work with him down there. I was working with the quarterbacks. He was of course playing receiver, and just to see his attention to detail and commitment and knowledge and smarts; and you could tell that it was a guy that had a passion for the game. So for a lot of the same reasons we were talking about earlier on – not making the same mistakes again twice – you can just see that he’s very serious about getting better from day to day. Guys that really enjoy the game, that’s easy for them because they can come here and work and he kind of epitomizes that.”

(As you know from working with Adam Gase and Clyde Christensen, they both believed – and Adam articulated to us – that WR Jakeem Grant is better on the boundary than in the slot. Do you agree with that and are you using him more outside or inside?) – “Really what Jakeem (Grant) and the rest of our guys – they have the ability to play outside, they have the ability to play inside. It depends on a week-to-week thing. It depends on a matchup for who we’re going against. I see Jakeem as a guy that can do both. We all see the ability that he has. Does that mean playing on the outside and taking advantage of his skillset there or moving into the slot based on matchups, he can do that as well. So he really has the flexibility to do both.”

(I was wondering do you have a good QB Ryan Fitzpatrick story?) – “I do. So unfortunately when I was at Yale, we did not beat Harvard one time, so five years – brutal – again, not happy about that. But I can’t remember who we were playing. I feel like it was the Jets or somebody and Yale was playing Harvard, and I had the pleasure of watching it with him on his phone as Yale beat Harvard, so that was a highlight of time spent with him.”

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