OT: Gruden to Raiders - 10 years for 100 million.
January 5th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
Easy when you don't spend all your money on players - extra money for the coach.
January 5th, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 9:22 PM ^
That is some funny . . .
January 5th, 2018 at 9:24 PM ^
Laughing too hard and explaining to wife. Sorry about the double post.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
This potential train wreck could be glorious.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
I wish I could embed the gif of Harbaugh laughing at that dumb ass intent to decieve penatly.
This is crazy pants.
I should quit my job and take an assistant job somewhere. I can take a year or two of making $15K if by year five I am making 8 teen bajillion dollars. Jesus.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 5:27 PM ^
If you are going to give Dungy credit for the Bucs Super Bowl Team then you have to give Gruden credit for the Raiders team that the Bucs played in the Super Bowl. Plus, Gruden was a "tuck rule" away from taking the Raiders to the Superbowl the year prior.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^
January 6th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 4:49 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
Ho. Lee. Crap.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
off a tv gig and look at how well that worked out.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
"We're going to have to be ready to play. This is one of the best teams in the NFL. They have one of the best QBs in the NFL. Their WRs are some of the best that I've ever seen. The running backs on that team, are some of the best that we'll see all season. Their defense...is one of the best. Those line backers, probably the best in the NFL. Their DBs are some of the best cover corners you are ever going to see"
January 5th, 2018 at 3:27 PM ^
Throw in a couple spider bananas, and you can make an animatronic Gruden
January 5th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
to coach anything. Right place, right time for Gruden. What a deal for him. Wow.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:20 PM ^
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January 5th, 2018 at 6:21 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
that's probably peanuts compared to the rumored part ownership deal*
January 5th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
SEC coaching searches just got a lot less interesting
January 5th, 2018 at 3:32 PM ^
Suckers! I would have done it for half.
January 5th, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
The "hire" Grumors will subside. Let the "fire" Grumors begin!
January 5th, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 6:18 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
Dick was arguably better the 2nd time around, and he had a similar career path of "get a head coaching job insanely young, burn yourself out, become a broadcaster then come back a decade later." Being in the booth during the games is much more helpful than being a studio guy, because you actually do have to watch the stuff instead of BS'ing.
But I can't help but wonder how Gruden adjusts to the NFL as it exists now. His offenses were built around running that Holmgren/Shanahan version of the West Coast offense with inside/outside zone for a run game. Teams were so overwhelmed by zone blocking that teams were running up insane rushing totals with dudes off a scrap heap. That's not the case any more obviously, and he had a lot of problems getting his passing game going in Tampa the way it worked when he was an assistant at Green Bay and HC at Oakland.
If he modernizes and brings in young hungry assistants with similar philosophies but new ways to skin the cat like Vermeil did, he'll be successful. If he tries to do what he always believed in the same way he used to do it, this will be an unholy flop.
January 5th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 5:33 PM ^
In today's money the Louisiana Purchase would cost about $315.9 million, or about three Grudens.
January 5th, 2018 at 6:37 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 9:07 PM ^
You can't actually take a standard inflation average index over 215 years for a number of reasons, most specifically because the value of land has increase closer to the value of other investable items over that time period. Also, inflation was not static over that period. I'm seeing quotes in the range of closer to $740 million for that time period just for inflation.
Remember also the louisiana purchase was not just for the state of Louisiana, it was for 53 million acres. Undeveloped acerage not near city or water locations in that part of the country goes for over $4k an acre on average. Lets be magnanimous and count it as $3k considering some intangibles. That's still a value of $159 billion. You could also look at the economic output of the area that was the Louisiana purchase (12% of US GDP, or 1.7 trillion) since we are considering this as a financial decision on the part of the US (to make the $15 million purchase), but I think that's getting a little far fetched for our comparison.
January 5th, 2018 at 5:19 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
I'm with you. It seems to be the hot take of the moment to say that Gruden couldn't coach. I can see people having an issue with him being away from the game for as long as he has been but really even that is a bad argument because it's coaching. You don't forget how to coach. It's not like the world passes you by.
Get real. The guy accomplished more in the NFL than our beloved coach Harbaugh did and the pay isn't that much different now. JH, if he is making $9 million a year basically would make only $10 million less over that span. He has never won a Super Bowl but Gruden has. Whether you like it or not, there is a premium that comes with being champion. As far as the argument he took Tony Dungy's team and won with it, so the fuck what? The facts are the facts. The trophy was his. Tony Dungy wasn't calling those plays or giving the halftime speeches. So it just doesn't hold water.
The same people who want to give a lifetime contract to guy who hasn't won a championship are ripping on the Raiders who just made a fucking A+ marketing decision that will pay that money back and then some for bringing back a guy that has turned himself into a brand and who also has that said championship. Jesus, sometimes people here amaze me.
January 5th, 2018 at 5:50 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 6:11 PM ^
It only makes sense to have one LOL by the way. You realize it doesn't actually represent the sound but is an acronym right? Now if you had typed hahahahaha that would be different.
January 5th, 2018 at 7:16 PM ^
January 5th, 2018 at 7:16 PM ^
Exactly. All those lololol's make him sound like Spongebob...
January 5th, 2018 at 6:29 PM ^
I definitely chose the wrong career path...
January 5th, 2018 at 6:29 PM ^