Jon Gruden’s QB Camp with Brett Favre ‘looked like 1995 vintage Favre’

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When Jon Gruden sat down with Brett Favre last month to film “SportsCenter Special: Gruden’s QB Camp — Brett Favre,” he first pulled out some old Green Bay Packers practice film from the early 1990s.

Gruden saved the film from when he was a young offensive assistant for the Packers and Favre was in his pre-MVP days.

“I showed him throwing passes in practice in Green Bay 25 years ago, and he almost fell out of his chair,” Gruden said in a phone interview this week. “He loved it. He remembered every single player. He didn’t ask, ‘Who’s 75? Or who’s 66? Or who’s that left corner?’ He could remember all the plays that we put in. It was awesome.”

To Gruden, it spoke to the sharpness of Favre’s football mind then and now, and also the time he dedicated to honing his craft.

“There was no CBA like there was today where they send you home after a one-hour meeting,” Gruden said. “Favre would get in there at 9 o’clock in the morning and stay til 9 o’clock at night. And we’d be showing him cutting ups and plays and walking through things so that when minicamp rolled around he was a little bit better and when …

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