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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And obviously work hard at getting Keenan back in here.
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And I'm not saying it's final, but there's a chance that tight end Alex Smith, depending on the formation we're in on the first play, might be one of our starters. And we'll make a decision here on left guard Dan Buenning in the next couple of days.
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These guys are both going to be NFL kickers, I don't think there's any question about that,
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All I can see is from the information from our doctors and Derrick doesn't feel like he's ready to go, so we'll leave it at that, ... We obviously have missed him and hope to get him back soon. There's no discrepancy. You've got to go with what the player says. If the player says he can't go, we'll listen.
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All I can say is I have the information from our doctors, and Derrick doesn't feel like he's ready to go,
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You chart pressures, like a weather man looks for clouds and storms, ... There are formations out there that tell you that the blitz is coming. Sometimes they're more difficult to forecast than others.
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You can't worry about instinct. You have to do what you feel is right at the time, do your homework and make the calls. You have to live with the calls you make and if your heart is in it, at least you feel good at the end of the night, no matter what happens.
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You can't start games like that. We've had a real problem with that around here. We played good, solid defense the last 20 minutes of the half.
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You can't start games like that. It has been a real problem.
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I love my brother. I haven't talked to him, but I will. All I can say from the Gruden family is, I'm very apologetic.
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I'm sure he is. He's got a lot of pride, he's been through a lot with the rehab to get well, with the knee, with the back. I think, in his own mind, he's probably a little bit frustrated. But he's a team guy and he knows it's a long battle back.
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I'm more concerned with Shelton's injury than I am concerned with Nate. Nate's a fine football player. He played a lot snaps for us last year -- not a lot of people know that,
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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.
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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.