When Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens explains quarterbacking, it’s crystal clear that he’s been there, audibled that. And he’s as simple with his football explanations as Neal deGrasse Tyson is with his astrophysics.
For example, in his latest presser, Kitchens is asked what specific things he’s coaching Baker Mayfield to look for or do that’s helped him develop over the season.
Kitchens breaks it down simple:
“The quarterback has to know why a guy is going to be open.”
Boom. Mind blown.
Notice he didn’t say a quarterback should know ‘that’ a guy is going to be open, he said ‘why’.