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Jon Gruden Calls Colt McCoy 215 Pounds Of Tungsten Potassium Nitrate

I like extremely enthusiastic people, even when they're occasionally full of shit, which explains my fondness for Ted Nugent, Gus Johnson, a bulldog riding a skateboard, and Jon Gruden.

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Gruden is expert at glowering into cameras, doing mundane daily activities in nearly orgasmic ecstacy, and dissecting college quarterbacks, often comparing them to poisonous building materials.

He sat down with Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford to break down their games for a ESPN feature.

I watched the Sam Bradford tape with a wisp of a smile, as poor Sam had to relive his Texas-induced shoulder re-injury over and over, with Gruden alternately chiding him and offering commiseration. He also called him the "worst sliding quarterback of all time."

Jim Everett was the best.

However, what makes Bradford tantalizing is what you see on the last bit of tape - a tall QB that sees the field who, when protected, has flawless accuracy downfield. Our favorite Okies, Boomer and Sooner opine..

At the end of the interview, Gruden pronounced Bradford to be 236 pounds of Anthrax Slathered On A Wheat Thin.

I would have gone with 107 Kilograms Of Smallpox On A Buffalo Hide - thus simultaneously demonstrating my utter insensitivity, and my faggish devotion to the metric system, in one fell swoop.

The Colt McCoy tape was equally amusing. Gruden has no patience for Colt's West Texas drawl and proceeds to instruct him on proper diction ala Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Say it with me, Colt: The Dust In The Panhandle Swirls Mainly On The Plain! Again! Again!

He also lays into Colt for trying to make incredible plays while his offensive line breaks down, a phenomenon Longhorn fans recognize as "The Texas offense." And "the reason we were 25-2 the last two years." Colt's film is proof that sometimes you ett the bar, and sometimes the bar etts you. Even whin the bar cain't unnerstan what yer sayin'.

There was no Jimmy Clausen tape available, but Gruden did refer to him at one point as Sixteen Stone Of Douche Smeared On Titanium.

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What is the system of measurment that uses stone for weight? I know it was used by dead english people, but does it have a name?

Anyway, ten tons of awesome, Scip.

by The General on Apr 14, 2010 3:01 PM CDT reply actions  

Imperial, old boy.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 14, 2010 3:06 PM CDT reply actions  

My cars gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

by Grandpa Simpson on Apr 14, 2010 3:14 PM CDT reply actions  

“He also lays into Colt for trying to make incredible plays while his offensive line breaks down, a phenomenon Longhorn fans recognize as "The Texas offense." "

That drew a hearty laugh-cry.

by Honna on Apr 14, 2010 3:34 PM CDT reply actions  

I’m quite shocked that our man didn’t tell Gruden to go fuck himself during that elocution lecture.

Good stuff Scip.

by hobbs on Apr 14, 2010 4:11 PM CDT reply actions  

Dedfischer makes McCoy sound like William F. Buckley.

by HenryJames on Apr 14, 2010 4:13 PM CDT reply actions  

and when you flang TEH BOWIE KNIFE at the bar, it cain’t ett ya, ‘cawse it’s daid.

by Live Bait on Apr 14, 2010 4:47 PM CDT reply actions  

I think Buckley’s granpappy was a Horn.

by Teddy Dupay on Apr 14, 2010 5:44 PM CDT reply actions  

Live Bait -

TEH BOWIE KNIFE is not forgotten. Glad you carry its memory on.
 
Teddy -
 
Buckley’s grandpa was indeed a Texas Longhorn. The Buckleys made their dough in oil (in Texas, Latin America) and were reinvented in the popular imagination as New England patricians because of William F.
 
WFB’s son Chris wrote Thank You For Smoking, among other things.
 
Dig that clan.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 14, 2010 7:23 PM CDT reply actions  

I’m just really pleased Colt’s spleen made it out of that room in one piece.

by Homesick Alien on Apr 14, 2010 11:50 PM CDT reply actions  

So Texas traded the Buckleys to Connecticut for the Bushes?

Jesus, we got screwed.

by Woody Bombay on Apr 15, 2010 12:32 AM CDT reply actions  

I cringed watching Colt mumble, stare in silence and spit off words like stinkin’. If I were Colt and that had been a job interview, I’d feel really shitty and not expect a call back.

by texasengr on Apr 15, 2010 12:37 AM CDT reply actions  

“WFB’s son Chris wrote Thank You For Smoking, among other things.”

good movie. great great book. Katie Holmes kept that movie from being better.

by dick on Apr 15, 2010 1:09 AM CDT reply actions  

So Texas traded the Buckleys to Connecticut for the Bushes?

Jesus, we got screwed.
 
Amen.
 
That easily eclipses the Herschel to Minnesota trade in terms of screwing.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 15, 2010 2:38 AM CDT reply actions  

The next time Gruden says anything remotely helpful or informative, it will be the first. I wish Colt had told him to take his dialect criticism and shove it up his ass

by ransomstoddard on Apr 15, 2010 6:10 AM CDT reply actions  

I have really enjoyed watching Gruden rake the quarterbacks over the coals about bade decision-making. He’s a total dick but he does know the QB position and he’s no sycophant. The points he was making to Colt about not throwing the ball away in the Nebraska game were pretty valid. Just like his mockery of Tebow’s blind throws and loopy motion were valid. Some of the stuff he throws in is just garbage, sure, but it beats the usual ESPN two-step of positive spin into judgmental moralizing.

I did not know that about the Buckleys. That was a terrible trade. But it also explains why William F. remained a bad-ass despite being surrounded by rampant prep-school faggotry.

On the plus side for Texas, we did get Sam Houston from Tennessee for almost nothing.

by ghostofagroundgame on Apr 15, 2010 9:13 AM CDT reply actions  

“On the plus side for Texas, we did get Sam Houston from Tennessee for almost nothing”

Bull effin shit! We lost VY.

by magnusbleuveigner on Apr 15, 2010 9:43 AM CDT reply actions  

Fair point. But he still lives in the H. And he’ll retire here.

by ghostofagroundgame on Apr 15, 2010 9:46 AM CDT reply actions  

Wiry Saltpeter?

Is that like a segue into Elusive Shadow’s piece over at BON?

by exuLt on Apr 15, 2010 10:57 AM CDT reply actions  

BTW ransom —

I’m pretty sure Colt won’t engage in buggery prior to marriage.

by ghostofagroundgame on Apr 15, 2010 11:10 AM CDT reply actions  

I’ll have to admit t’s difficult to keep up with Jon Gruden’s obviously brilliant football mind. I hadn’t realized that Raid and cockroaches were such an integral part of an NFL quarterbacks game. Wow.

by TxTower on Apr 15, 2010 1:45 PM CDT reply actions  

John Gruden calls ice cream and root beer a float.

by The Republic on Apr 15, 2010 5:01 PM CDT reply actions  

I mostly thought Gruden was a prick before watching this show. Much to my surprise, I liked him here. Good point, ghost, about this being a big improvement over the usual commentary from the WWL. He knows the game, particularly this position, loves it and takes pleasure in talking about it with other guys that feel the same way.

I disagree with texasengr about Colt in this show. I thought he came off very well. After yanking Colt’s chain about his accent and his size, it was obvious Gruden thought so too. I thought Gruden nailed Colt’s best quality: his relentlessness (“you can’t get rid of him”).

Colt isn’t the physical specimen that Bradford and Tebow are but has made himself plenty physical and athletic enough. He will keep coming at you until he gets the job, makes plays and wins. end of story. Terrific representative of the program.

by hopefulhorn on Apr 15, 2010 9:15 PM CDT reply actions  

I amazed that he didn’t rattle off a tirade about the necessity of good splenic toughness.

by MaduroUTMB on Apr 15, 2010 11:30 PM CDT reply actions  

i watched the talk with john gruden and colt mccoy at the gruden quarterback camp. being from texas i was quite pissed at the morons remarks concerning colts accent"you yoddle?" " you gotta lose that hea hea yall" " nobodys gonna understand you" if i was mccoy i would have dove over the table and pouned his stupid face into the table " heahea hea john yall undastadin this hea?" retarded moron never played one second of pro football maybe he needs history lessons on great quarterbacks from the south who were too redneck ignorant to learn proper GRUDEN ENGLISH. lets see ken stabler terry bradshaw archie manning the manning brothers? in or on their way to the hall of fame. john gruden? he might make it to the hall if they make a place for alltime dumb asses

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