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Meanwhile in Oakland...

Mr. Scot

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Mr. Scot

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On the topic of cutting players the right way...

Jon Gruden making decisions on players he's never met

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Gruden told PFT Live that since arriving in Oakland he hasn’t even met a lot of his players and won’t meet them for several more weeks because of league rules limiting offseason work. But Gruden said that in some cases, he and the Raiders’ staff are going to have to decide to cut players, without ever giving those players a chance to show their new coaches what they can do.

“We’re not allowed to have any contact with these guys in March, either. Not until April 9,” Gruden said. “And we’ve got to make some very difficult decisions on who we keep, whose contracts we restructure, and we’re making a lot of those decisions without having met these guys. And that’s tough. It’s really disappointing to have to make some tough decisions without having met some of these guys.”

"Hi, I'm your new head coach. Well actually, I'm not."

 

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Gruden knows talent and he knows lazy azz's...hes already made up his mind thru film...that aint off limits....he'll push the Raiders to be relevant again....team will only be able to handle about 3 years of his rah rah tho...he's got energy and he's a class A bullshter....

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23 minutes ago, Pimpdaddy said:

Gruden knows talent and he knows lazy azz's...hes already made up his mind thru film...that aint off limits....he'll push the Raiders to be relevant again....team will only be able to handle about 3 years of his rah rah tho...he's got energy and he's a class A bullshter....

Ehh, I don’t know... was/still is a Raiders fan before I was a Panthers fan, Chucky was fuggin awesome... but the only reason he & the Bucs won that SB was played his old team, who moved their OC to HC. How much did their playbook change, if at all? Bucs’ D said during them game “they’re doing all the plays we practiced against..”

so still having love for the now Vegas Raiders, his 10yr contract has me a bit skeptical.. hope for the best but curbed enthusiasm.....

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