Raiders coach Jon Gruden has created no secret of his antipathy for the league’s conjointly bargained rules governing offseason work and he went back to the well on Thursday whereas discussing quarterback Christian Hackenberg‘s unharness.

Maillot New York Jets,Gruden pointed to Hackenberg’s work this offseason to alter “his stroke, his passing motion” and aforementioned there wasn’t enough time to figure with the 2016 second-round choose when exploit him in a very trade with the Jets 3 weeks past.

“Everybody is associate degree skilled out there on Hackenberg and thinks he can’t play,” Gruden aforementioned, via ESPN.com. “It’s unfortunate, this whole collective [bargaining agreement]. however does one develop a quarterback? I don’t skills you are doing it. … it's laborious enough to induce Connor Cook enough reps, plus a fourth guy. It extremely depresses ME however we tend to can’t pay longer with these young quarterbacks, associate degreed it's extremely about to be an impactful scenario on the NFL within the future.”

Gruden isn’t the primary to sound off the impact that the present quantity of offseason follow time has hindered development of quarterbacks, however it clearly is done. Jimmy Garoppolo was a Patriots second-round choose 2 years before Hackenberg and he’s done OK despite being within the same position that Hackenberg was in throughout his initial 2 NFL seasons.

If groups square measure involved concerning player development and also the want for additional follow time, that’s one thing to debate with the NFLPA heading into future CBA. As in any negotiation, it'll value one thing to induce longer within the offseason and there’s been very little sign that team house owners square measure ready to form such trades.

Hackenberg reportedly visited the Patriots on Thursday, thus maybe they'll be ready to unlock one thing the Jets and Raiders couldn’t throughout their time with the quarterback. Or it should simply be that Hackenberg was written too early, that was hardly associate degree uncommon thought once the Jets took him within the initial place.