Gruden Says Start Cousins

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by mbedner3420

Not to belabor the point, but wasn't Shanny as equally invested in the nfl throughout his yearlong exile? That seemingly didn't help much.

Gruden has been out of the NFL for five years, and hasn't really been actively coaching and working with players to the same degree he would have during his coaching years. I just fear that something may have been lost. Should he be hired, 3 of the past 4 coaches would have had some duration of absence from the game, and the two we've worked with have had marginal success. Granted, two instances isn't necessarily a trend, and it doesn't factor into how gruden will perform, I worry about the odds, regardless. I'd much rather try our luck with an up and comer than a retread.

Personally, MS was out of the league and as far as I knew did nothing but visit the Steelers and Patriots to see what they were doing and how they did it.

JG has traveled to visit many teams with Monday night FB. He has had to digest the teams systems in order to babble about them all night long. His system is his system and I'm sure he probably would not change much other then to tweek it to some slight spread hybrid. I get the feeling MS let his son take the offensive wheel and he has had to step in and put his run staple on it the first two yrs to get some form of offense.

What I would like about JG is he would have big OL blocking vs. MS's smaller OL who get run over by big defenses.

Who would he bring in as DC? good question. Maybe Lovie Smith? He is a good DC but a not so good HC. Smith would bring back the Tampa Two for JG. lol.