Reconciliation underway between Jon Gruden, Bucs owners
November 11, 2024
Would love to see chunky come back.
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Not surprised at all. They still had his statue up at the facility
Good. Guy got railroaded by the league so they can cover up all the bullshit with Dan Synder, or at least take the heat off the owners.
Racist, Misogynistic, and homophobic? No. Just no.
Warms my goddamn heart
I definitely don’t want him back as a coach. He was mediocre at best after the SB with Dungy’s team, and looked worse with the Raiders. Monte Kiffin was the real mastermind of those years.
I assume they’d quietly reintroduce him to the Ring of Honor and be done with it, but I don’t honestly think they should bother.
I say just rehire him next season, Gruden said he’s looking to coach again haha
Well that explains why they showed him on the video board. It was surprising considering he, if I recall correctly, called one of the Glazers a cocksucker in one of the emails.
Dude was a cheerleader who won with Tony’s team. No thanks.
Like him or not, Gruden is an important piece of our franchise history — I can’t count the number of times I watched America’s Game the 2002 Bucs with him.
Gruden is good for football.
Come back in what capacity? A figure in the Bucs organization, but nothing to do with drafting or coaching? I’m good with that.
Bring Gruden back. Dude loves ball.
Maybe back at MNF, just not a coach. We need to be looking forward, not back.
Oh God please no. WTF?
Gruden should be honored here. I don’t think lewd jokes and e-mails are deserving of being blackballed. It’s nasty, but it’s not evil. He deserves to be honored for what he’s accomplished here, and honestly I wish he was still calling games because he was fantastic with Mike Tirico.
Let me ask this. Did he ever apologize for all of the bad stuff in his emails that was discovered? I think that goes a long way towards healing. I think he has a great football mind, but it’s hard to get past racist, misogynistic, and homophobic stuff unless he did a very deep and sincere apology and tried to explain himself. I think that would go a long way for me personally ever being comfortable with him being a coach here again.
If they want to bring him in for ceremonies and whatever, so be it. Don’t need him back in the Ring of Honor though. Nothing has changed from the decision to remove him.
Hopefully a Full reconciliation
I respect Gruden’s contribution to Bucs history, but does no one remember the procession of washed-up veterans he brought in year after year? With that 2002 defense with Sapp, Brooks, Rice, Lynch, Barber, Booger McFarland, etc all in their prime we should have won more than one championship.
Pass.
It’s doubtful he’ll be a head coach in the NFL again. It’s a shame we don’t have Nick Saban in college football anymore. He could have Gruden be an OC as a project and maybe get some college HC attention.
Messed up that Chucky’s emails got leaked. Bruce Allen and the Dan Snyder investigation?
Glad it’s water under the bridge.
Does anyone else read Gruden’s quotes in “Gruden voice”.
“I’ll tell you what man!” Also, not at all condoning his comments, but I believe Gruden’s greatest (leaked) insult descriptor was “anti-football p***”. In his realm being anti-football is the anti-Christ.
Thought it was extremely hollow to remove him from the Ring of Honour when we had AB and Sherman on the team, as well as Warren Sapp in the ring. They’ve made things awkward now because re-introducing him now is going to look bad, but maybe they’ll get away with it if it’s done quietly.
22 comments
Not surprised at all. They still had his statue up at the facility
Good. Guy got railroaded by the league so they can cover up all the bullshit with Dan Synder, or at least take the heat off the owners.
Racist, Misogynistic, and homophobic? No. Just no.
Warms my goddamn heart
I definitely don’t want him back as a coach. He was mediocre at best after the SB with Dungy’s team, and looked worse with the Raiders. Monte Kiffin was the real mastermind of those years.
I assume they’d quietly reintroduce him to the Ring of Honor and be done with it, but I don’t honestly think they should bother.
I say just rehire him next season, Gruden said he’s looking to coach again haha
Well that explains why they showed him on the video board. It was surprising considering he, if I recall correctly, called one of the Glazers a cocksucker in one of the emails.
Dude was a cheerleader who won with Tony’s team. No thanks.
Like him or not, Gruden is an important piece of our franchise history — I can’t count the number of times I watched America’s Game the 2002 Bucs with him.
Gruden is good for football.
Come back in what capacity? A figure in the Bucs organization, but nothing to do with drafting or coaching? I’m good with that.
Bring Gruden back. Dude loves ball.
Maybe back at MNF, just not a coach. We need to be looking forward, not back.
Oh God please no. WTF?
Gruden should be honored here. I don’t think lewd jokes and e-mails are deserving of being blackballed. It’s nasty, but it’s not evil. He deserves to be honored for what he’s accomplished here, and honestly I wish he was still calling games because he was fantastic with Mike Tirico.
Let me ask this. Did he ever apologize for all of the bad stuff in his emails that was discovered? I think that goes a long way towards healing. I think he has a great football mind, but it’s hard to get past racist, misogynistic, and homophobic stuff unless he did a very deep and sincere apology and tried to explain himself. I think that would go a long way for me personally ever being comfortable with him being a coach here again.
If they want to bring him in for ceremonies and whatever, so be it. Don’t need him back in the Ring of Honor though. Nothing has changed from the decision to remove him.
Hopefully a Full reconciliation
I respect Gruden’s contribution to Bucs history, but does no one remember the procession of washed-up veterans he brought in year after year? With that 2002 defense with Sapp, Brooks, Rice, Lynch, Barber, Booger McFarland, etc all in their prime we should have won more than one championship.
Pass.
It’s doubtful he’ll be a head coach in the NFL again. It’s a shame we don’t have Nick Saban in college football anymore. He could have Gruden be an OC as a project and maybe get some college HC attention.
Messed up that Chucky’s emails got leaked. Bruce Allen and the Dan Snyder investigation?
Glad it’s water under the bridge.
Does anyone else read Gruden’s quotes in “Gruden voice”.
“I’ll tell you what man!” Also, not at all condoning his comments, but I believe Gruden’s greatest (leaked) insult descriptor was “anti-football p***”. In his realm being anti-football is the anti-Christ.
Thought it was extremely hollow to remove him from the Ring of Honour when we had AB and Sherman on the team, as well as Warren Sapp in the ring. They’ve made things awkward now because re-introducing him now is going to look bad, but maybe they’ll get away with it if it’s done quietly.