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We’ve heard since Dan Quinn and Kliff Kingsbury were hired how, ideally, the Commanders select a quarterback that best fits the system they’d like to run offensively – but should it be the other way around, where DQ and Kingsbury tailor their scheme to who they take?

“I’ve been making the case they should be taking the quarterback they like the most,” Grant said Tuesday. “If Drake Maye, who played for Phil Longo and ran the exact same offense as Kliff Kingsbury last year at North Carolina is the best fit because he's run the scheme that Kliff's gonna be implementing – to me that shouldn't mean you draft him. I think you've got to operate as if Kingsbury could be gone in a year or two and you're gonna have another coordinator in here; maybe they run the same system, maybe they don't.”

GP played a clip of an ESPN NFL Live convo about the No. 2 pick, where Mina Kimes echoed Grant’s thoughts and looked at Kingsbury’s time in Arizona, while Dan Orlovsky had some interesting thoughts on who might at actually be best, which is…Bo Nix if it’s plug and play?

Interesting thoughts, which G&D had to break down – and the lack of motion in Kingsbury’s offense, as pointed out, is a big reason GP is tailoring the system to the QB.

“It’s fact that Kingsbury’s offense in Arizona lacked motion, that was one of the telltale elements of his offense that I thought was one of the shortcomings of his offense,” GP said. “Jayden Daniels was in an offense at LSU where they did tons of that, and it gives you answers pre-snap.
You can use motion to get your receiver into a more favorable matchup, move him away from a corner that's not going to travel across the formation, move him over to the other side of the field or into a stack or a bunch. But most importantly, if a team moves and defends the motion man in a certain way, it's man coverage, and if they don't, then it's zone coverage. For a young quarterback, having little tells like man versus zone, who's going to be where, is the whole answer key. If you're not doing that if you're Kingsbury, that is really tough for any quarterback, but especially a young quarterback.”

“Watch Miami play for one quarter and you'll go, oh, we should probably be using motion all the time. Another thing you can do is get your really fast guy kind of a running start,” Danny said. “It's not the CFL where guys can line up 10 yards back and sprint straight, but you're sprinting across and you've got a running start, so to speak, to kind of get up to full speed. But number two, you’re hoping that Kingsbury learned all those kinds of lessons about the trend line in the league, and you would hope he’s understanding why and it gets incorporated.”

So, to GP’s point, Danny agrees that you have to tailor the system to the QB because he’s likely the one who will be here longer, especially if the team succeeds.

“This is the Achilles heel of having an authority figure like Dan Quinn; I think he is a pretty good coach, but you now have a weakness that's built into your system: I don't count on Kliff Kingsbury being here for any more than two seasons, good or bad,” Danny said. “I don’t care about who fits Kingsbury best, and I'm hoping they don't either. If he's not adapting to who he's got, and he's only lining up out of shotgun when he's got a Drake May, that’s a mistake. Don’t do that.”

“I agree, but playing Devil’s advocate, the flip side to that is not caring who fits inevitably makes their life harder if he is not going to adjust accordingly,” GP said. “I’m not saying he's gonna be obtuse, but let's just say he's done it one way, that’s why you hired me, and now you take this player that you actually just think over the next 10 years is the best quarterback in the league, and you're telling him make it work with this guy – what if he's not quite as good at doing it that way? With all the respect to him, it's not like it was amazing the way he does it in the NFL, so if you're getting a B version of him when the A version wasn’t great? Maybe the thought is they’re hiring him because he’s had great relationships with quarterbacks and worked really well with a lot of stars and athletes, so they want him to bend to them.”

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