Hey, AFC West teams. As a heads up, it appears Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden appears ready to destroy your quarterback whenever possible.
After inking an elite press rusher in Yannick Ngakoue, Gruden has gone on to say the importance it is to pressure gunslingers in the 2021 NFL season.
“The quarterback can’t make a pizza standing back there. You just can’t let him go back there and cook dinner and look around back there and throw the ball. We have to get after the quarterback. So it all starts with Ngakoue,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said, via the team's YouTube channel. “Getting Yannick in here, a guy we think can be a great pass rusher, we draft a kid named Malcolm Koonce [and we tell him], ‘Just watch Ngakoue — watch what he does. You’ll learn something.’ And I think Solomon Thomas, Quinton Jefferson are going to give us a better inside rush than we have had. And we’ll see. You know Maxx [Crosby] will be there, and I’m expecting more from Cle Ferrell as well.”
This is certainly saying all the right things in the correct way.
Las Vegas will also need stellar play from its offense, but given the top team in the AFC West is the Kansas City Chiefs, coupled with the blueprint shown by the Buccaneers in how to stop Patrick Mahomes, pressuring the quarterback being a top priority makes all sense in the world.
Only time will tell if Raiders defensive players live up to the dreams John Gruden is laying out for the public to hear.
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