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 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.
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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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Even though you're back playing, you don't miss a year and a half of football and show up in Week 9 and say, 'Hey, I'm back, man,' ... I don't care what anybody tells you. You've got to work through that.
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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 need to get him out here, ... He'll be back with us this week and we'll try to get him a couple of good quality practices. We're excited to have him back. We definitely need him.
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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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It's hard to get there, hard to win it. You'd like to have three bye weeks and just be anointed Super Bowl champions. You've got a tough road. I don't care where you go or what you're schedule is. But we understand the implications of the game.
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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?
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(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.
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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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We're obviously very concerned. I don't want to speculate, but it could be a few weeks or it could be the rest of the season.
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Every week they hear this is such a big game. I think they're used to hearing it's a big game.
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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 got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.