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...
ball five gave last obviously promise week year
We gave him the ball in week five last year so we obviously thought he showed promise and improvement,
analyst corner far five six tape teams telling though three top weeks
We have so far to go. Though we are 3-0 ... we look at the tape at who's on the horizon. There's an analyst on every corner that's telling you, 'Hey, you are one of the top five or six teams in the league.' Three weeks ago, we were in the 30s, you know what I mean?
five good progress seen special
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.
five knock six
They got after us early. We had sacks in our first five or six passes. That will knock any quarterback out of rhythm.
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They got after us early. They had three sacks on our first five or six passes and that will knock your quarterback out of rhythm on the road against a defense of this caliber.
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It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team. It helps when you have your draft choices on your team and in your program because guys do get better. Heck, I got better at my job in my second year.
area both days definitely dramatic five four france guy improvement last matt seen stood todd
They know this is an area that we've got to make dramatic improvement in. If this guy can come through or if it's Matt Bryant, so be it. So far, we like what we've seen out here in the last four or five days from both of them. But Todd France definitely stood out.
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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.