Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden
Jon David Grudenis an American former college football player and professional coach. He was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning Super Bowl XXXVII in his first year with the Buccaneers. At the time, Gruden was the youngest head coach ever to win a Super Bowl at age 39 years, 5 months and 9 days...
hands
It's unfortunate. He was open, he had his hands on the ball, and he was in the end zone.
gave people
Not a lot of people gave us a chance.
bad
Not a bad day for the rookies. Not a bad day.
collective far offensive showing work
It was a collective effort, ... The offensive line, as we've said all along, is a work in progress. So far we're showing improvement.
means rest three tough
That just means that after three games, I'm making that statement. He has to back it up the rest of the season. But I'll say this about him. He's as tough as they get.
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It's nice to have some continuity around here and build a team from within instead of compiling a nucleus of players from outside. That's challenging. The development, the persistence and the work ethic is going to pay off.
answer eat needed pass proclaim score situations start
It's so early, and I don't want to proclaim him as an answer to all our problems, ... But he's off to the kind of start we needed him to have. ... You make first downs, you eat up clock, you score touchdowns, you keep your quarterback in third-down-and-operable situations and the play-action pass is going to be that much better with (Williams) in there.
execution good hurt lack nearly penalties year
It's not good. It has not been good at all, ... The penalties have hurt us and our lack of execution hasn't been nearly what it was a year ago. We have to get that thing going.
injury looks takes time
It looks like it could be an injury that takes some time to heal,
degrees helped inside seeing slick weather
It made the weather a little more realistic, because it's going to be about 73 or 72 degrees inside the dome, ... We didn't have any lightning, so I thought it helped us concentrate even more, seeing as it was slick and noisy.
football good guy played
It's good to have him back. He's a guy who has played a lot of football and he's a good player, so it's good to have him back out there.
good talent
It's good to have a young quarterback with that kind of talent.
short stay turn
It's his turn now and he won't have a short leash. We're going to let him play, and we're going to stay with him.
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It's hard to get there, hard to win it. You'd like to have three bye weeks and just be anointed Super Bowl champions. You've got a tough road. I don't care where you go or what you're schedule is. But we understand the implications of the game.