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're not perfect. But we'll play hard and we'll make the corrections and our players will open their eyes and listen and do the best they can to get better next week.
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John Wade, I tip my hat to him; he had a serious knee injury, so I'm questioning whether or not he'll ever play again, let alone in the opening game,
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To open the game up like that (the muffed return) was a downer. We'll open it up to competition this week, for sure.
competition game open
To open the game up like that (the muffed return) was a downer, ... We'll open it up to competition this week, for sure.
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There's a lot of decisions you need to make. Can I return this? Should I fair catch it? Should I let it roll into the end zone? It requires a disciplined, aware guy who also has great instincts in open field awareness and a guy who can catch the ball and take some punishment. Obviously, we need somebody who can make somebody miss. It's a skill not many people perfect or many want to perfect.
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This game will play into those decisions, no question about it, ... We've got a pretty good idea what we're going to do on opening day in Minnesota in terms of who the starters will be, but the competition is still pretty tight at those three spots.
accident believe
This should in no way symbolize what he is all about. That was an accident -- I believe that.
guys
We've got to get some young guys to make our team. There haven't been many do that. I'm not being negative. I'm just being honest.
beat guys sure
We've got to always beat them up a little bit, make sure we keep these guys grounded.
putting situations
We wouldn't be putting him in these situations if we didn't know he could do it,
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We think Williams is going to be a tremendous inside runner.
running
There is running room. We, as a whole, just have to keep pushing.
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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 gave him one extra day, and he'll be ready to go today, ... He's going to be ready to go today and he's going to play in the game, so he's all right.