![]() ![]() After four seasons, he was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for whom he won a Super Bowl against the Raiders and coached until fired after seven seasons. Gruden’s hire comes 20 years after he was hired by late owner Al Davis as the NFL’s youngest head coach at age 34. Adam Schefter (AdamSchefter) October 12, 2021. Even with his father resigning tonight as the Raiders’ head coach, Deuce Gruden remains the team’s strength and conditioning assistant coach. Gruden coached the Raiders from 1998-2000 compiling a 40-28 record, leading Oakland to one AFC Championship game in 2000. Rich Bisaccia will be the special teams coach, a position he held the last five seasons for the Dallas Cowboys. Gruden’s son, Deuce, is Las Vegas’ assistant strength and conditioning coach, and he’ll remain in that role despite his dad’s Vegas exit. Gruden confirmed his resignation in a statement through the Raiders. The defensive coordinator will be Paul Guenther, who just completed his fourth season as defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals. Greg Olson, currently the quarterbacks coach for the Los Angeles Rams, will be the offensive coordinator. Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of michellin tires, Gruden wrote, according to the WSJ. They are said to have interviewed two, one identified as Raiders tight ends coach Bobby Johnson.Īccording to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Gruden already has his offensive and defensive coordinators in place. When asked about getting to this point in his career, Bisaccia - who was part of Grudens staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers - got pretty emotional as he reflected on his parents, siblings. This past Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported an email that Gruden sent to Bruce Allen the then-president of the Washington Redskins now the Washington Football Team. Del Rio was unexpectedly fired on New Year’s Eve within minutes of the Raiders’ season-sending loss to the Chargers in Los Angeles.īefore the Raiders could strike a deal with Gruden, they needed to satisfy the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview at least one candidate of diversity. Gruden ended a four-year stint with the franchise beginning in 2018, where he signed a 10-year contract to return to the Raiders after serving as their head coach from 1998-2001 when the team was. Gruden’s annual salary would be the highest among NFL coaches and twice that of his predecessor, Jack Del Rio. Gruden’s contract with the Raiders is for 10 years – tied for the longest coaching contract in history – and worth around $100 million, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. ![]()
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