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...
evaluate good hard offense phase work worked
The only way to evaluate your short-yardage offense is to work on it and see it in a game. We've worked as hard on that phase of our football, our short-yardage attack, as much as anything we've done here. With that said, we feel good about it.
certain chance choose gives guy happen hopefully job plans pressed primarily return service somebody throughout trust week worked
(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.
couple draft hard help last players team wire worked
Not necessarily. We really worked hard on the draft the last couple years, being a part of it, so we know a lot of the players that are on the waiver wire from our research, ... And we know a lot about our players that didn't make this team also. Not necessarily, but familiarity can help you, you bet, when it's close.
great guy hard hope kid losing regretted spike tough worked
I just hope Will Heller doesn't spike one at me on Sunday. He's a great kid and he's a guy that really worked hard to get what he has, not being drafted. We regretted losing Will but unfortunately sometimes you have to make some tough decisions.
ball goal line logical previous success worked
It was the logical thing to do. The ball wasn't at the two-yard line; it was at the one. And we had previous success at the goal line (in that game). Fortunately for us it all worked out.
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,
inside tremendous williams
We think Williams is going to be a tremendous inside runner.
best eyes hard listen next open players
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.
running
There is running room. We, as a whole, just have to keep pushing.
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,
extra gave ready today
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.