Arizona’s quarterback is dispelling old perceptions of him over the past four years. Plus, more details on the Jordan Love and Tua Tagovailoa contracts in Albert Breer’s training camp takeaways.
We’ve been on the road for a week covering NFL training camps. So we have a lot to get to this week as I make my way up the Pacific seaboard. So here are the takeaways from the first week of training camp …
He asked Murray to run down rookie teammates to congratulate them after touchdown passes. Murray did it. He asked that he lead them in every way he could. He organized a group trip, and a plane, for guys to go to Oklahoma City for a Thunder–Mavericks NBA playoff game in the spring, then bankrolled travel for a throwing pre-camp in Los Angeles for the offensive skill players.
It was also a way to show Murray’s football aptitude and, in doing so, tear down another misconception that he didn’t like. “I would say my football IQ is through the roof,” he says, “regardless of what people made it out to be.” It’s a drive that a lot of folks missed a few years ago, but one that he and Gannon are working to make sure is unmistakable from here on out. And they’re doing it in lockstep—Murray calls their relationship “spectacular”—because of the belief they have in each other, and now what’s happening around them.
Love’s deal has $142.5 million over the first three years, and guarantees another $20 million if he’s cut after 2026. Tagovailoa’s contract has $149.17 million due in its first three years, and guarantees another $3 million if he’s cut after ’26..A smart agent, who liked both contracts, pointed this out to me over the weekend, and it’s something I hadn’t thought of—in these cases, the shorter contracts also shortened the term of the guarantees, which protected the teams.
The Raiders have taken on the personality of Pierce, a former NFL middle linebacker. / Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports “Hugely important,” says GM Tom Telesco, who was hired after Pierce was picked. “If you don’t have an identity, it’s just hard to build the team. You’re just grab-bagging. Having a team identity, on offense and defense, What are we? Then you build that. You’re not just randomly drafting and signing players that look really good on a sheet of paper. We’re not just buying stocks and putting them on a sheet. Everything has to fit together as a team.
On top of that, Pierce has also leaned on his old Giants coach Tom Coughlin, who’s on the books for a visit to Raiders camp in Orange County this week. We’re going to have more on this, both on video and in print, soon. But I came away pretty excited to see what this winds up looking like. Because it has a chance to be a very Harbaugh-ish team, maybe a month or two into the season.
. Klint Kubiak, one of the Niners’ top offensive lieutenants in 2023, was brought over to be the coordinator for Dennis Allen’s Saints, who are camping in the Rams’ old digs at UC Irvine. And as intriguing as the hire is, the reasoning for it may be even moreso. The dynamic, in fact, is very similar to what faced the Patriots post-Tom Brady, and the logic, in fact, is why Bill Belichick tried to import Shanahan’s concepts the year he made Matt Patricia the offensive coordinator, right after Josh McDaniels left for Vegas.
I was talking to a GM over the weekend about this, in fact, and the point that GM made was that a player like Kelce, like Tony Gonzalez a generation before him, is so experienced and savvy that, when it really counts, he’ll find ways to get open for his quarterbacks. But the challenge is getting him there with gas in the tank. Which, I’d bet, will be a priority for Reid and his staff.. Matthew Stafford just got one in Los Angeles.
It’s a necessary consequence of a show like that. It will also make a lot of people leery about the idea of doing it in the future.
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