Jon Gruden’s visit was to help with Derek Carr, according to Saints

The former head coach has been out of the league since emails leaked using racist, misogynistic and anti-gay language.

METAIRIE — The head coach of the New Orleans Saints, Dennis Allensaid a visit from the former head coach of Las Vegas Raiders, Jon Grudenit is not a prelude to a great renewal of the team’s offense.

Gruden attended several practices last week, and visited with the offensive coaches and quarterbacks of the Saints while holding the first full week of practice sessions of the offseason. Allen said the main purpose of the visit was to learn about the brain of Gruden regarding the new quarterback of the Saints, Derek Carrwho played bass Gruden from 2018 until the resignation of the head coach of the Raiders in 2021.

“Obviously, Jon He is a guy who has a lot of experience with Dereky Derek has had most of its success under Jon Gruden“, he noticed Allen at the conclusion of the practice session of the Saints on Tuesday.

“And so, we felt like bringing him in, being able to sit down with him and have him visit the offensive coaches, the quarterbacks, and just get new ideas of things that we could implement. I would say this, offensively, for the long time that I’ve been here, we’ve been pretty effective. So I don’t see us putting up a whole new offense or doing anything dramatic. But if there are some ideas we can take from that, we feel like it would be beneficial.”

The rookie quarterback of the Saints, Jake Haenersaid the most important thing they took away from the meeting was to talk about what had worked for them. Carr y Gruden when they worked together in the past.

“They obviously wanted to bring him in to see what Derek does well and what he thought Derek he was doing well, just to get an idea of ​​him as a player, because obviously he’s a new person in the building and they want to do what Derek does well. I think that was the most important thing, just to have a different perspective, and a different mind,” he explained. Haener. “Obviously, it’s very interesting to hear from a guy who’s really successful and has been successful. … I definitely came away with some of this. He liked the way I shot the ball.”

Gruden he has been out of the league since resigning in 2021 after a report that emails he wrote over a 10-year period used racist, misogynistic and anti-gay language.

Carr spoke to the media shortly after Gruden resigned, saying it was a day that included emotions of anger and frustration.

“It was a lot to handle, I’ll put it that way,” he explained at the time. Carr. “You know me, man. I don’t condone that kind of talk. I don’t talk like that. My kids are never going to talk like that, and it’s hard because I love that man so much.”

Allen He said he had no concerns about any repercussions regarding the visit of Gruden, and said it was something they’ve done with various coaches over the years. He said that everyone involved came away with a positive experience.

“No, look, ask anyone involved, and they’ll say it was really beneficial for our football team,” according to Allen. “And look, we’re just going to look at whatever avenues we can to try to improve. So it was an area that we thought, just bringing him in and getting a chance to sit down and visit with him would help us.”

According to the quarterback of the Saints, Jameis Winston: “I just think that whenever you have the opportunity to have one of the great minds in the history of the NFL to come and spend some time with you, just soak up all you can possibly soak up. I just think his presence and his way of thinking about the game is something that really stuck with me.”