Thursday, May 01, 2014

The Jay Gruden Outlook

New head coach (again)... what do we really know about him?

1. Jay Gruden was Cincinnati's offensive coordinator and helped develop Andy Dalton and AJ Green.
2. He's Jon Gruden's brother and has ties with Bruce Allen to the Tampa Bay Bucs organization.
3. He does have head coaching experience, albeit with the Arena Football League and United Football League, for both the Orlando Predators and Florida Tuskers, respectively.
4. Gruden also has ties with Haslett, for whom he served as offensive coordinator when Haslett was his predecessor as head coach of the Tuskers. 
5. Unfortunately, he didn't recognize Marvin Jones' playmaking ability and has played Mohamed Sanu in front of him the last two years.
6. He runs a West Coast system but will run more power running plays and fewer stretch running plays.