‘Exhausting Knocks’ teaser? Gruden (hearts) AB

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sure, Jon Gruden helps Antonio Brown. The Oakland Raiders coach has mentioned as a lot in current days.

However it goes deeper than that. Rather a lot deeper.

Episode three of “Exhausting Knocks” confirmed simply how a lot Gruden likes and backs his mercurial receiver, who has battled points from his head (his well-documented non-certified helmet points) to his toes (frostbitten toes due to a cryotherapy mishap in France final month), with Gruden going deeper in private conversations with Brown than something he has mentioned publicly.

“I give the man credit score for standing up for what he believes in,” Gruden says early within the present. “Everyone else does on this nation.”

Later, after Brown returned to the workforce following a two-week sojourn and took part in a walkthrough, Gruden informed Brown: “Kinda like having you right here. I feel it is going to be all proper for us.”

A later dialog caught the 2 on the follow subject, with Gruden asking Brown how his toes felt.

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“As soon as they get actual scorching, then they get a bit burning, however for probably the most half, I really feel good,” Brown mentioned. “Simply when it is actually scorching, the s— begins to burn. I gotta take my sneakers off.”

Gruden laughed, “Why do not you go to a cryochamber and get …”

“F— that, coach,” Brown shot again. “Not once more. By no means once more.”

Later, Brown informed Gruden, “Thanks for supporting me, coach. My f—ing head, the toes, individuals after me. You’ve got been a continuing supporter. Thanks.”

“I have been there,” Gruden mentioned. “However when you’ve received any issues, something bothering you …”

“We’re all on this collectively,” Brown mentioned.

“I do know you’ve got received lots of people in your ear since you’re like an organization that is type of gone world,” Gruden mentioned. “However on the finish of the day, let’s hold this s— easy, what I imply? Soccer comes first. Every thing else is f—ing means behind, what I am saying?”

“Completely,” mentioned Brown.

“Since you,” Gruden continued, “you dealt with all that seamlessly, superbly.”

Brown was impressed along with his coach’s vocabulary, saying, “Seamlessly. I like that phrase.”

“I used to be making an attempt to go along with a multi-syllable phrase,” Gruden joked.

“That is an ideal phrase — seamlessly,” Brown laughed.

“Yeah,” Gruden grinned, “three syllables.”

“I gotta look that up,” Brown mentioned.

“They don’t have these at Dayton or Central Michigan,” Gruden joked, referring to the universities the 2 attended.

Different present highlights …

Grasp impressionist Frank Caliendo, on the invitation of quarterback Derek Carr, doing his model of Gruden, to a non-plussed coach. “Why do not you do one thing humorous right here tonight, Frank,” a smiling Gruden shot at him. Caliendo additionally broke out his Charles Barkley and John Madden.

Rookie security Johnathan Abram was none too happy along with his “Madden” ranking and let the online game adjustors on web site find out about it.

“Derek Carr is like an 82. [He should be] like a 90!”

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“Man, why y’all received my ranking so low,” he mentioned. “Why y’all enjoying like that?”

Advised it was as a result of he was younger and didn’t have something on NFL tape but, Abram puzzled what that meant.

“You bought all of us, like, sorry,” he mentioned. “Erik Harris, Karl Joseph … Lamarcus Joyner must be a 90-plus. A.B. must be 100. Derek Carr is like, 82 …(he must be) like, 90s.”

Abram went on to say that his personal power and tackling scores have been too low, whereas including he could be higher in man-to-man protection.

Tight finish Darren Waller, in the meantime, had no points along with his low ranking of 68, saying he had not performed sufficient within the NFL to warrant the next quantity.

He additionally talked of being “clear” for at some point shy of two years.

“Once I was in Baltimore, I used to be identical to a vegetable,” he mentioned. “I used to be, like, getting excessive, actually on daily basis. No matter I might get my fingers on. It was like opiates first, Oxy, tablets, stuff like that, Xanax, cocaine, not caring about something, like several type of penalties or something like that … I used to be tremendous burnt out … I used to be identical to plotting to sabotage myself, my means out of the league so I did not appear like a quitter, just like the league would put me out of my distress and I might go about my enterprise.”

Failed drug assessments have restricted Waller to a mixed 16 video games because the begin of the 2016 season. He credited Borden Cottage rehab heart with remodeling him.

Nonetheless image of the present: A shirtless Hunter Renfrow from the mix, which elicited howls from the workforce after Gruden mentioned the purpose was for the Raiders to be “Greater, sooner, higher conditioned” athletes.

“You are not less than 37,” Carr informed the elder-looking Renfrow, who’s 23.

“He performs identical to Julian Edelman,” Abram mentioned.

Tight finish Luke Willson, who grew up in Windsor, Canada, went crusing off Sausalito along with his dad Mike, who as soon as thought an NHL profession is likely to be in his son’s future.

“With this hair, man, I feel it nonetheless is,” the long-coiffed Luke chirped.

“He all the time needed to be one of many Hanson Brothers,” replied Mike, referring to the 1977 film “Slap Shot.”

And whereas he was not a fan of his self-described skinny calves, Luke was impressed with the Golden Gate Bridge. “Fairly cool f—ing bridge, man.”

“I am not saying that we dealt with it the correct means, however he’ll kick ass for you. He is going that will help you win a variety of soccer video games.”

Agent Drew Rosenhaus to Jon Gruden about his shopper, Antonio Brown

Quote of the present: “I am not saying that we dealt with it the correct means, however he’ll kick ass for you. He is going that will help you win a variety of soccer video games.” – Brown’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, to Gruden.

Gruden’s response: “Sure he’ll.”

Quote of the present 2: “This lid is ugly as f—, bro.” — Brown, to receiver Keon Hatcher, referring to the helmet he wore in warmups in Arizona.

Quote of the present three: Brown will get philosophical: “I am only a younger, black skinny child, working actually laborious. And it is beginning to repay.”

Quote of the present four: “Males lie and ladies lie, however the analytics do not.” — Brown, when proven numbers that present how far (958 yards) and quick (12 mph) he ran in a sport final season, which he topped up to now two weeks.