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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You're going to be criticized in this business. That's just part of it. We're going to do everything we can to give this guy a second chance. We realize some people might not agree with that. But we're sorry for that.
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It might have something to do with his shoes, I don't know. It just didn't feel good. He's an important guy to our team. If his Achilles' tendon is swollen and not feeling right, I'm not going to put him out there. Not on that surface (the baseball infield at Dolphins Stadium). Play the percentages and get him right.
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We'll see. We might not do it at all, ... That might just be smokescreen because we do have other venues that we attack with. To have the emergence of Earnest Graham is big. We all know that Pittman can function in any formation and Carnell is a guy we think can be great, so yeah, we're really excited. It's been a while.
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He thought it would be best for him to sit the rest of the game and try to get right for next week, ... We don't really know the severity of this hamstring. It might just be a contusion of some kind. ... We're meeting with him at this time and I can't speculate publicly any more until Carnell and the doctors have had a chance to look at this further.
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He thinks every time I talk to the team I'm talking about him, and that's simply not true. Like I'm talking to one guy. Give me a break. I might be talking about some special teams guy. He can take anything I've said and try to attach his own meaning to it, but I know I was trying to win games and make it work.
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We're trying to put it together the right way. It might take us a little time. . . . But we're all the same in this business. You're only as good as your last game.
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There are a lot of people who said we might not win two games, two weeks ago,
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We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.
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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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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 really happy for him, proud of him. It's a credit to him and his hard work. This guy is a special talent, a special kid. Hopefully, he's got a lot more great days ahead.
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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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It's so early, and I don't want to proclaim him as an answer to all our problems, ... But he's off to the kind of start we needed him to have. ... You make first downs, you eat up clock, you score touchdowns, you keep your quarterback in third-down-and-operable situations and the play-action pass is going to be that much better with (Williams) in there.