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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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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And when you put him together with Michael Clayton and Alex Smith and Barrett Ruud and Dan Buenning and rookie tackle Chris Colmer, well, you feel you've got guys who can help you turn things around here.
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For us to sign Chris Simms for our future is something that is extremely exciting. (He is) A young man that has continued to improve, help our team make the playoffs and win an NFC Southern Championship, and a guy that we will continue to build our football team around.
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What happened last year is not going to hurt us or help us in any way. We realize we have our hands full. We're going to get on a plane and we'll go and we'll play any place, be it the Vet or on the Walt Whitman Bridge.
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It made the weather a little more realistic, because it's going to be about 73 or 72 degrees inside the dome, ... We didn't have any lightning, so I thought it helped us concentrate even more, seeing as it was slick and noisy.
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We've added some guys who are not only good players but good leaders. They lead by example. Ike Hilliard's helped us. He's come in here and given us great leadership. Brian Griese's asserting himself with the football team. Chris Hovan's done some great things. Anthony Becht is a leader on the team.
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There's change circulating throughout the league and for us to sign Chris Simms for our future is something that is extremely exciting. He's a young man that's continued to improve and helped take our team to the playoffs and win an NFC South championship and is a guy we will continue to build our football team around.
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There's a lot of things that entered into this decision to bring him to Tampa. He's got a lot to prove. He's got to get it right. Hopefully, this is an opportunity for him to do it. The stage is set for him to be successful. If he can do that, we're going to look for him to help us. If he can't do that, then it's not going to be a very long-lasting relationship. We'll see what happens.
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North and south, no nonsense. He was a good addition back there. He runs hard, and he helped us out.
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I thought he did some good things. He will help our team. He gives us a dimension that we need here.
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Kenyatta started every game last year and helped us make the playoffs. We made great strides on offense last season and it was our goal to keep everyone on board so that we could continue that improvement.
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He's helped me get better as a head coach and he's got great energy. He's in great shape. The game means a lot to him. First downs mean a lot to him. He doesn't like giving up inches, let alone yards. He still has a blinding passion and believe me, he's very proud of his roots. I know he talks about this place all the time, and I just wanted to come back and see it with my eyes.
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His performance in the last 15 or 16 games has helped us turn the corner and at least be competitive,
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He's a very popular guy on this team and well thought of. He's been here a long time, ... He's got a lot of close friends on the team and on the staff and in the organization. I'm sure he's getting a lot of support from people. It's very unfortunate. He's not the only one that's had to go through this and we just try to help him the best we can.