Deseret News · Aug 9, 2020
BYU offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes explains why continuity ‘makes a huge difference’
Jaren Wilkey/BYU BYU’s Wake Masen catches a pass during fall camp Friday, Aug. 7, 2020.PROVO — John Beck will wonder all his life what his college and NFL careers could have been if he’d had the luxury of working under the same offensive coordinators for the duration he took to the field.
As it turned out, he played under systems created by Gary Crowton/Robbie Bosco/Todd Bradford and then Robert Anae. Then, when he got to the NFL, the team that drafted him, Miami, cratered. After arriving at Washington, there was an NFL players’ strike that disrupted the promised plans of Mike Shanahan and Beck. The ever-changing approaches and adaptations he experienced as a player still haunt him today.