Jon Gruden recalls hilarious Peyton Manning jab after ill-advised play call

Former NFL caput manager Jon Gruden has shot stories for days, particularly erstwhile it comes to quarterbacks outsmarting him. 

During the latest occurrence of his "Gruden's QB Class" connected Barstool Sports, the erstwhile manager spoke with 2025 NFL Draft imaginable Seth Henigan of Memphis erstwhile helium brought up a play during his vocation portion facing Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. 

Gruden's squad, though helium didn't specify which squad it was astatine the time, called an all-out blitz connected Manning and the Colts. But sending the location wasn't going to propulsion disconnected 1 of the sharpest quarterbacks of each time.

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Las Vegas Raiders caput manager Jon Gruden walks onto the tract earlier the commencement of a crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 29, 2021. (Cary Edmondson/USA Today Sports)

"When they commencement all-out blitzing us, that'd beryllium the past clip they bash it," Gruden told Henigan. "I did it to Peyton Manning. We called an all-out blitz against Peyton Manning. He saw it, helium flashed a manus signal, touchdown."

As Gruden watched the Colts score, helium said Manning made definite to hitch it in. 

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"You cognize what helium did aft helium did it? He ran close by my sideline, and helium says, ‘Are you retired of your f---ing mind?’ I curse helium did that."

Manning was known for his quality to work defenses earlier the snap, making indispensable adjustments with his violative enactment and receivers to get affirmative yardage. 

And Gruden wasn't the lone caput manager who watched Manning dissect his squad with specified precision that a touchdown was the extremity result. 

Manning is simply a two-time Super Bowl champion, 1 with the Colts successful 2007 and 1 with the Denver Broncos successful 2016. He is besides 3rd each clip successful passing yards (71,940) during his Hall of Fame career. 

Henigan is hoping his NFL vocation comes remotely adjacent to Manning's arsenic helium looks up to the NFL Draft.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound signal-caller is conscionable hoping to beryllium drafted, and helium apt has a batch of enactment to bash to ace a 53-man roster earlier the 2025 campaign. 

Henigan was a productive backmost during his clip astatine Memphis, a four-year starter who acceptable a schoolhouse grounds and tied an AAC grounds with 104 vocation passing touchdowns. 

Peyton Manning and Jon Gruden (Imang)

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NFL.com's Lance Zierlein said Henigan is idiosyncratic who tin work done his progressions rapidly and "climbs nether borderline unit and spots completions." However, his carnal traits are not arsenic elite arsenic different backmost prospects successful the draft, and helium sometimes rushes his decisions. 

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