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...
football good physical pleased running signs
I'm pleased with where we are running the football and that's a start, ... There are some good signs, some physical signs that we could be a good running team.
concerned contract excited focus guys pleased work
I'm one of those guys who is never pleased with anything. I'm a little concerned about someareas of this team, obviously, and excited about some others. We've got a lot of work to do, we've got 53 guys under contract right now and we have some focus on what we have to do next.
guys pleased
I'm one of those guys who is never pleased with anything,
couple drops good great key
I like the way we started. It was a great first drive. A couple of key drops stymied some opportunities that we had. We are doing some good things, but we have a long way to go.
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.
award awards coming keeps obviously promise reflection reflects worker
It's an award he's obviously earned. It's a reflection of him and his family, the kind of worker he is. But it also reflects our team. He's got a lot more awards coming if he keeps doing what he's doing. I promise you that.
forward looking rice seeing
It's done with. We need Simeon Rice back. I think he understands that. And we're looking forward to seeing him.
rice
It's done with. We need Simeon Rice back.
anytime knee potential starting taken
Anytime you have your starting quarterback taken away from you with a potential knee injury, you are just very concerned,
continue
So as long as he can take it we will continue to give him those opportunities.
cap corey foresee given good honest looking maybe player realistic salary
As you say, the salary cap is a problem. If we wanted to get Corey Simon, we couldn't have made that happen, maybe because of the salary cap. It's not like we weren't looking at every good player that we foresee being available. But we have to be honest and realistic with what we can get done given our salary cap.
hear hearing week
Every week they hear this is such a big game. I think they're used to hearing it's a big game.