Jaguars news: Jay Gruden reveals how he'll bring out the best in Gardner Minshew

The Jacksonville Jaguars are starting fresh on offense with Jay Gruden coming in as the new offensive coordinator to work with Gardner Minshew.

The Jacksonville Jaguars brought in Jay Gruden this offseason in the hopes of revitalizing an offense that ranked near the bottom of the NFL in scoring last season. With 2020 set to be the second year of the Gardner Minshew experiment in Duval County, Gruden knows just how important the development of the young quarterback is to the team's success.

“Well, it better mesh,” Gruden said Tuesday, via team transcript, when asked about the relationship thus far between him and the Jags quarterbacks, specifically Minshew. “It's my job to make it mesh, you know, to take on the personality of the quarterback and get him to understand what we're trying to get accomplished on the play-to-play, game-to-game, week-to-week basis, it's going to be critical.

As for Minshew, the former Washington State product broke out onto the scene last season as a rookie. The 2019 sixth-round pick would be the Jaguars' starter for the majority of last season where he would show a lot of promise.

Minshew would appear in 15 games, making 14 starts and completing 60.6 percent of his passes for 3,271 yards, 21 touchdowns, and six interceptions. Minshew also showed strong ability to extend plays with his legs as he totaled 344 rushing yards — good for second-best on the team.

“I love Gardner's competitive spirit. You could see it shine through on tape when he was in college and obviously last year in the games he got to play,” Gruden added. Now it's just a matter of him getting some general knowledge of our offense and me figuring out what he likes, what he doesn't like, what makes him tick and go from there. I'm pretty easy to get along with, I know he is too, so I think it will be a great relationship between the two of us.”