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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Great running backs have a tendency to run by instinct, run by feel, and when they see the same blocking pattern three or four times, sometimes they anticipate what you are going to do the next time, ... There's some of that, and then some of that is just sheer determination, guts and talent. He is a phenomenal competitor, and he is blessed with great talent.
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We've got a guy named Alstott that's been known to do some damage (in short yardage). We have some deception there too now with a couple of tight ends that can not only block but get down the field and do some things.
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Obviously we are not blocking well enough, ... We're not calling the right plays. . . . We're just not getting it done right now running the football.
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It still ticks me off. I've never seen a fake punt in the Senior Bowl. It blew my mind. We were going to have a hell of a game and win. They faked a punt and they blocked a field goal, and you're not supposed to do either of them.
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He made a big play to block the kick to extend last week's game in overtime. What he did today was come up with the signature play of the game. His best times are ahead of him.
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He made a big play, obviously, last week blocking the kick to extend overtime. Then finishing the play today basically was the signature play of the game.
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I am not going to use his injury as an excuse for us having 50 yards rushing in a game. We've got to block better, we've got to finish better. And if we need to explode on somebody, run over somebody, make somebody miss to make yards, that's what we've got to do,
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We tried to get him and Tim involved, because the bigger the game, the bigger he plays. He was excited and thrives in this atmosphere. He loves the big games. The more you ask of him, the more he relishes.
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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.
glimpse guys
We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.
expect
We expect Kenyatta to be here, and that's all I can say.
advantage depth evaluation last players sure
We're going to try to see if the front-line players are front-line players. We also want to look at the depth of our roster to make sure that we take advantage of the last evaluation for a lot of these guys. We're going to try to do it all in this game.
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The schedule doesn't get any easier, ... Our job is to do everything we can to help him. His job is obviously to make plays and move this football team and help us score and win games, and eliminate turnovers, negative plays, sacks. Those are areas that must be cleaned up in a hurry. And he'll be the quarterback this week again. Hopefully he can do that.
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I've seen him play middle linebacker in this 32-nickel-rover package they have. He's all over the field. And no matter where he is, he's going to line up and challenge you.