Tag: Kevin Sheehaan Podcast

Chris Cooley amazed by Sonny Jurgensen

Chris Cooley offers the ultimate praise for Sonny Jurgensen, thankful to be a part of his life.

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Chris Cooley knows greatness when he sees it and he readily has praised Sonny Jurgensen over the years.

The two-time Pro Bowl tight end out of Utah State was a Redskin from 2004-2012 and then was employed as a member of the team’s radio game-day broadcasts from 2013-2019.

Jurgensen had begun working the broadcasts in the 1981 season with Frank Herzog and Sam Huff. When Huff needed to step aside due to health issues, Cooley was hired as his replacement. Cooley then had the opportunity to work with Larry Michael and Jurgensen during the 2013-2018 seasons. In Cooley’s final 2019 season, it was a two-man booth with Michael doing the play-by-play.

A guest on the “Kevin Sheehan Show” podcast Thursday, Cooley, with no preparation, spoke to Sheehan glowingly of Jurgensen, the man, and fellow broadcaster.  Cooley was happy for Jurgensen that his No. 9 is finally being retired Sunday at FedEx Field in the 2022 season finale against Dallas.

“It was amazing for me to get to know Sonny. As a player, he was always amazing, as he and Sam were always great to me. Many times on the bus on game days, I would sit with those two, have a chance to talk with those guys about their careers.”

“As I called the games, I was so appreciative to have had Sonny as part of my life. He was great with my children. He was great with my wife.”

“He was unbelievable as a player, unbelievable as a broadcaster. And without saying anything else about who deserves jerseys retired, for everything that Sonny did as a part of Washington, he deserved his jersey retired a long time ago.”

“It is somewhat unfortunate, in my opinion, that it is game number 17 in a non-impactful game. Like you said earlier, there will be more Cowboy fans. But the fact of the matter is they are retiring his jersey, and it will be forever that his jersey is retired.”

“It is something that he gets to be a part of while he is still alive, his family gets to be a part of, and I am so proud of all that he did.”

“I have always been amazed by Sonny.”

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Commanders offense continues to amaze Chris Cooley

Chris Cooley previews the game against the Giants and talks about some of Washington’s odd offensive stats.

Chris Cooley was a guest Friday on the “Kevin Sheehan Show” podcast and pointed out that Washington is now fourth in total offensive plays run in the 2022 NFL season.

Cooley talked of how unbelievable it is that the Commanders are 21st in offensive yards yet 4th in offensive plays. “They have to wear New York down, and that is how Washington is going to win a lot of these games.”

“I don’t think it’s realistic that Washington is going to hit a lot of big plays down the field. But I do think they need to have 20 more plays than the Giants. Cooley elaborated how the quick short yardage plays of the Commanders are not wearing down the defensive secondaries. He also asserted he thinks they need to run some tempo in order to better wear down the Giants defense.”

I could be wrong but do Ron Rivera and Scott Turner want to run tempo unless it is absolutely necessary?

Sheehan pointed out how one of the Commanders’ second-half drives consisted of 11 plays while gaining only 38 yards, resulting in a Tress Way punt.  The Commanders coaches want to shorten the game, lean on their defense and ask Heinicke to manage the rest.

Sure enough, the Commanders ran 82 offensive plays to only 65 for the Giants two weeks ago. The time of possession was Washington 41:11 to 28:49 for New York.

Sheehan was assertive that the Commanders only converting 3 of 14 third downs and winning the time of possession and number of plays as well is not going to happen often and was an aberration.

The two were in no way hating on the Commanders offense or Taylor Heinicke. They were simply pointing out they are going to have to generate more big plays if they are going to win against better defenses.

Here is the entire Kevin Sheehan podcast from Friday.

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