516 Quotes by Jon Gruden



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    Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.

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    From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

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    The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.

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    Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.

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    I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.

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    I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

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    Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes.

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