John Harbaugh: Jon Gruden noticed OTAs, gave us nice perception

John Harbaugh welcomed one other Tremendous Bowl-winning head coach to Ravens OTAs this offseason.

Former Buccaneers and Raiders head coach Jon Gruden noticed the staff’s exercises on Thursday and Friday this week. Harbaugh stated that Gruden’s outdoors view offered the staff with useful data.

“He loves soccer, he’s an ideal soccer coach, nice soccer thoughts,” Harbaugh stated, through the staff’s web site. “He studied our staff, gave us some perception — gamers, coaches, schemes, all of it. We didn’t give him the playbook, we didn’t give him a script both. You possibly can solely go up to now. He studied us. Principally, the message was, ‘If I used to be sport planning in opposition to you on protection, what would I do, how would I assault you?’ He didn’t simply cease there. He watched our offensive guys. He had one thing for every participant. Very, very detailed.”

Gruden has been out of teaching since being resigning from the Raiders in 2021 within the wake of the discharge of offensive emails, however stated earlier this 12 months that he nonetheless hopes to return to the sideline. That will not occur, however the Ravens should still profit from his acumen this season.