Episode 415 of Son of a Boy Dad dropped this week and it did not take long for the clips to start flying. Jon Gruden, still one of the most quotable men in football no matter what chair he's sitting in, showed up as the guest and immediately started talking like he'd been on the show for years.
Gruden compared coaching his trivia teammates to managing basketball's two biggest egos.
The breakout line came when Gruden started describing his own trivia team. Being teamed up with Malasek and Frank the Tank, he said, is "kinda like managing LeBron and Michael Jordan" — which is either the funniest thing a former NFL head coach has said about bar trivia or an actual coaching philosophy Gruden low-key still carries around. Either way, it's the clip that's going to follow him around this week.
That wasn't the only real moment from the sit-down. Gruden also got into fatherhood, laying out a philosophy that sounds like it came straight from a coaching clinic: be present when you're home, don't be elsewhere — even if it wrecks your golf game.
Gruden explained the family-first philosophy that he says tanks his golf handicap.
It's a legitimately sweet answer sandwiched between football stories and plane talk, and it's the kind of tangent that makes these podcast appearances hit different than a normal media availability. Gruden isn't performing for cameras in a press room — he's just riffing with hosts who clearly have him comfortable.
That's the whole appeal of Gruden on a show like this. He's not rehashing 60 Minutes or Monday Night Football war stories on a loop — he's letting the hosts rib him, ribbing back, and getting roped into bits about producers who "didn't do much." Episode 415 is out now, and if the clip volume from the last few days is any indication, this is the Gruden appearance people are going to be quoting for a while.