Yes, finally Chucky himself has been vanquished in Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers have just fired John Gruden and it was speculated on this very blogsite two weeks ago. If you asked me, he took too much credit for winning a Super Bowl with Tony Dungy's team. The glaring weaknesses in personnel evaluation, poor drafting and the dizzying. endless carrousel of quarterbacks which will hopefully be at an end. I am not a Bucs fan, but I am excited for them. It is clear that the team had tuned out the dirty faces and the yelling. The lack of clutch performances when the team needed them speaks volumes of how they responded to him and his initmidating style of coaching. Hmm...maybe Keyshawn Johnson had something when he virtually quit on the team a few years back referencing differences of opinion between he and Gruden. Now, Gruden is a good coach it would be a wise move to start all over again as I believe he needs to be a coordinator again before going back to a head coaching gig. He will also have to learn to stick with one QB and let him play through the good and bad times...look what it did for Eli Manning to have a coach stick with him when he struggled mightily.
On the other side Raheem Morris is a member of the Dungy coaching tree and he was hired with hopes that what Herman Edwards and Mike Tomlin had in coaching talent will transfer to him. We will see. Man, I have to do some analysis on the age of head coaches in the NFL dropping down to my age....wierd.
awe naw...you called him chucky! growing up in buccaneer land, i recall the horrid orange jersey team losing all the time and fans with bags on their heads at the beat down houlihan staduim. so out with old and in with the new...
ReplyDeleteowners [no love fest for the glazers], coaching, stadium [ray jay], more intimidating uniforms along with tradmark infringement claims by raiders [guess that fell flat]. dungy got that team moving forward with shaun king under qb. speaking of king, i still believe he is the reason dungy was fired. in walked gruden [ex raider guy], a coach with high offensive player development skills particularly with qbs. he won that superbowl by plugging journeyman qb brad johnson into dungy's team. who couldn't have done that?
now reviewing gruden's 7 yr tenure...they've gone through qbs like underwear [think of simms and the rupture spleen], no true development at the other offensive positions [the cadillac is always in the garage] and the main point is the team is playing way below expectation. i don't know how gruden lasted 7 years and is this is why i have no love for the glazers.
kudos xphaktor, you called it and when it didn't happen at the end of the season i thought wow gruden escaped the chopping block yet again. so the timing of this firing is interesting, could it be because their next head coach was being courted? well in any case good riddance and come on raheem let's see what you have to bring to the head coaching position of this team.
by the way wideout clayton is sounding off on espn