Wild Card Weekend 1/6/08: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. New York Giants

Head Coach Jon Gruden: We hung in there

Posted 1/6/2008 on Buc 'Em: Front Page Posts

"I'm proud of our football players. We overcame a lot this year. We hung in there." Head Coach Jon Gruden - Buccaneers.com Gruden said it all right there. We did overcome alot and we did hang in there. Enough so that we made the Playoffs. That's pretty impressive for a team that finished the year with 14 guys on Injured Reserve: Mike Alstott, Charles Bennett , Antoine Cash, Torrie Cox , ...

Welcome To The Fire Jon Gruden Bandwagon

Posted 1/6/2008 on The Sporting Orange

Hello friends and welcome to The Fire Jon Gruden Bandwagon ® Sponsored by The Sporting Orange. As you can imagine, I’m sick of Jon Gruden destroying this franchise. I’m sure you’re saying, “Oh mlm, relax, it was just one game.” Well, you know what I say to that argument? Fuck that argument. In six seasons, Gruden has had three winning seasons and made the playoffs three times. In six ...

June’s Injured Foot Becoming a Major Concern

Posted 1/3/2008 on Buccaneers Gab

The Bucs are getting more and more worried about linebacker Cato June’s foot, as he missed yet another practice on Thursday and there is a very real shot he may miss Sunday’s Wild Card matchup with the Giants. June hurt the foot in Sunday’s regular season finale against the Panthers. He has not talked to the media about the injury and coach Jon Gruden declined to talk ...

Audio File: Head Coach Jon Gruden on New York Giants

Posted 1/3/2008 on Buc 'Em: Front Page Posts

Head Coach Jon Gruden talks about the following in the audio below: Resting Players - Yes people continue to criticize him about this QB Eli Manning - Gruden thinks he's a hell of a guy Stopping Giants - Our ability to pressure Eli RB Brandon Jacobs - Biggest back he's ever seen QB Jeff Garcia - Big Time Competitor, loves his Attitude Our Defense - Brian Kelly is Healthy ...

Jon Gruden Is A Slap-Dick

Posted 1/3/2008 on Bucstats.com

No, I haven't turned into a hater. He said it himself in an interview on Yahoo! Sports (mind the exclamation point.) Gruden talks about the time he interviewed Jeff Garcia for a spot with the Raiders. "I didn't spend enough time with him that day," the coach says. "If I had sat down with him and gotten to know him, I'd have understood, and we'd have gotten him then. But I was clueless. ...

Bucs Prepare For Giants

Posted 1/2/2008 on Buccaneers Gab

The regular season is over and the 9-and-7 Buccaneers now look forward to Sunday’s wild card matchup against the New York Giants at Raymond James Stadium. Tampa Bay closed out their regular season by losing three of their last four games while the Giants gave the Patriots all they can handle before losing their regular season finale last Saturday night. Bucs head coach Jon Gruden ...

A scouting report on the Buccaneers

Posted 1/2/2008 on Big Blue View: Front Page Posts

Since we aren't too far removed from the holidays and I'm still in a giving mood, here's a bonus Tampa Bay cheerleader for you. Admittedly, I know very little about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I know, of course, that Jon Gruden is their coach and the irritating Jeff Garcia is their quarterback, but that's about it. So, to find out a little more about Sunday's playoff ...

Jon Gruden praises Eli Manning

Published 1/5/2008 on NYDailyNews.com - Football

Jon Gruden has spent the better part of the week praising beleaguered Giants quarterback Eli Manning so much that it's almost as if he were recruiting Manning to be a future Buccaneer once Jeff Garcia is done.

Jon Gruden: Brandon Jacobs poses big problem

Published 1/4/2008 on NYDailyNews.com - Football

Jon Gruden has spent 18 years in the NFL, including the last 10 as a head coach. He's seen a lot in his career. But he's never seen anything like Brandon Jacobs.

NO TIME TO REST

Published 1/3/2008 on NY Post: Sports

Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden knew he would be hit with criticism after deciding to pull many of his starters out of a game two weeks ago in San Francisco (the Buccaneers lost, 21-19), and when he opted to keep many of his starters off the field last...

Bucs rested and ready for Giants

Published 12/31/2007 on NYDailyNews.com - Football

Jon Gruden bristled at the suggestion that he may have set Tampa Bay up for failure in the playoffs by taking a cautious approach to the last two weeks of the regular season.