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...
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It comes down to a lot of things, really. Are you going to keep five or six? What can they do on special teams? We do feel pretty good about the progress we've seen in these young guys.
It comes down to a lot of things,
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You look at the salary cap spreadsheets that you're handed, yeah, you know the inevitable is going to happen. When you're $20 million to $30 million over, whatever it is, you've got to get under the cap.
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We'll find somebody to give us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.
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We'll make a tough call here in the next three or four days, ... We have a couple of days to kick the ball on the practice field. We have compiled a lot of statistics and numbers on all their kicks and we'll make that call in the next couple of days.
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You do have to recognize that young guys doing things for the first time don't sometimes do it as well as they will later on,
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You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.
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We don't have one player or coach on our team who has ever won a Super Bowl. This is the most exciting times of our lives in football.
We are not perfect. But we'll play hard. And we'll make the corrections.
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We're not going to let one defeat or two defeats or a negative road trip set us back from our goals. We realize this is a work in progress, this football team. We have a long way to get where we want to be,
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We'll see how he is at wake-up call on Sunday morning and we'll see how he is when he gets to the stadium. We'll see how he is and we'll let you know. I just can't come out and say he's not going to play. I can't come out and say he's going to play, and if he does play how many plays.
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Al wore distinctive cologne that I can smell to this day. I knew he was coming down the hall before he ever got to my office. Al called me by a nickname, too, but it wasn't 'Chucky.' It was 'Butch,' although I never knew why.
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A lot of us have stolen from him (through the years). We've taken a lot of his ideas and tried to apply them to our own teaching.
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They got after us early. We had sacks in our first five or six passes. That will knock any quarterback out of rhythm.