![]() ![]() ![]() “Man, he is something, I wouldn’t say ‘skeptical.’ I talk to Coach Gru a lot and I am happy that a bunch of the coaches that worked with him in the past when he was successful in Tampa are now on his staff in Las Vegas. “Coach Gru, man … ,” Brooks said in a phone interview. His initial feelings about Bradley may have been a secret. He is a great teacher and communicator and he brings the juice every day.”īrooks, a Hall of Fame linebacker, laughed when told Gruden’s account. Derrick Brooks was skeptical of a guy walking in from North Dakota State, and Gus won him over, too. ![]() “I’m not kidding you, Monte Kiffin and I talked to everybody. “We interviewed about 100 coaches,” Gruden recalled last week. When that first interview occurred, the Bucs had won a Super Bowl three seasons prior and their veteran players hadn’t heard much about the success of the North Dakota State program, if you can imagine. He thought I was given the answers to the test or something.”īradley, of course, was hired as the Raiders’ new defensive coordinator last week, and again told Gruden everything the head coach wanted to hear. ![]() “Because I was speaking their language, and he was giving me grief. “We ran a very similar system at North Dakota State to what Monte did, and I think Jon thought the interview was rigged a little bit,” Bradley said in a phone interview on Tuesday. ![]()
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