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Is Jon Gruden the best fit?


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Gruden is good for one year to take a transitional team, coach them well and instill some discipline. After that first year though he will become an idiot and attempt to buy up every over 32 veteran that is "one of his guys". Thereby setting a franchise back by decades (i.e. Tampa Bay, Oakland).

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Gruden is good for one year to take a transitional team, coach them well and instill some discipline. After that first year though he will become an idiot and attempt to buy up every over 32 veteran that is "one of his guys". Thereby setting a franchise back by decades (i.e. Tampa Bay, Oakland).

Only if he has a puppet GM like he did in Tampa. I think Gruden would make a good HC given a good GM that can handle the personel for him.

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Things that are never a good idea if you run a professional football team:

#1- Fire your HC that is bad at making adjustments, doesn't do well coming up with an offensive game plan, chews too much bubblegum for excercise, can not win year to year consistently, and is living off an achievement from over 6 years ago. Then turn around and hire the guy that could never beat the HC you just fired and is living off an achievement that happened almost 10 years ago.

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