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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We gave him the ball in week five last year so we obviously thought he showed promise and improvement,
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We kind of threw that flag hoping the ball hit the ground. And fortunately for instant replay (it did). I'll vote for it again this year.
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Everybody is an option. It's going to come down to good, solid execution. You've got to knock somebody off the ball when they pretty much know you're running it. That's what makes the game great.
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We just played them a month ago. We beat them 10-3 and we had to intercept the ball on the 1-yard line to do it. If there's a letdown this week then we'll pay for it. I don't expect that to happen.
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We're trying to keep both of these guys in a situation where they don't know for sure yet, to be honest with you. Both guys have kicked the ball well. These guys are both going to be NFL kickers.
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I am red-hot now on challenges. That was a big play. . . We didn't get a chance to really look at it, but we kind of threw that flag hoping the ball hit the ground.
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We noticed dramatic improvement during training camp. We had a number of backs go through the entire 1,800 to 2,000 plays with no fumbles. We've had two in the preseason games, but we don't want any. We have made dramatic strides in ball security.
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I thought about throwing the ball and trying to score a touchdown and then going for two with him over there,
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Giving the ball to a guy 25-to-30 times, if they are going to get 140 or 150 yards, there is going to be a long run in there somewhere, ... That's one of the reasons we keep giving the ball to the same guy because we think he is special and it's just a matter of time before he finds a way.
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We've got to minimize turnovers. We turn the ball over in sometimes tragic, horrific situations.
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We got two pretty good kickers. It's a competitive situation. Both have kicked the ball off very well, and outside of the last-second desperation kick we did pretty well.
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Yeah, I think so, especially if he's touching the ball 50 times in two games,
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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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The throw he makes to Galloway with the division title on the line says a lot about what a clutch performer he is. That wasn't a slant or a wide flare, that was a 44-yard throw that landed right on the screws. He got hit a lot, and we had some balls batted down. He's got great resolve.