Jay Gruden has improved his ‘coach speak’ during his tenure in Washington. When he took over in 2014, his comments were generally open, honest and transparent. Nowadays, he has learned the art of giving reporters quotes that they can use in stories without actually saying much at all, and almost never staking out an unequivocal position.
The phrasing of coaches’ comments is important. We had a great example of that inside the NFC East on Tuesday, when Pat Shurmer set all the scribes to scribbling with his comments about the quarterback situation in New York.
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