Quote:To be fair, if you give Dungy credit for building Tampa Bay, you have to give Gruden credit for building the Oakland team he beat in the Super Bowl.

 

That's fair, but it's also fair to realize that Oakland team also fell off the face of the earth.  And I'm pretty sure, if memory serves correctly, that Oakland team that Gruden took to the SB was really a team that was carried by a really old QB that Gruden really didn't develop anyways.

 

Gruden was a product of timing and luck, no of hard work and any specific genius as a head coach that he had.  

 

At least he's been smart enough to realize that and has not gotten back into coaching.  I think he realizes more than most that he's a "Wizard of Oz" type coach that got lucky with smoke, mirrors, and curtains...  That to me, was his true genius.

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