Jon Gruden Call Quotations

I was just trying to get some interpretation. I'm just a coach. I just want to know what call was made. I had to take a timeout to sort that out. The Green Bay sideline was right there, they heard it, they got the outcome of why it was ruled why it was, and I didn't.

But in some ways, this is a real positive for our football team, for us to be tested in this way. We physically got beaten by a quality football team (Carolina). You can dwell on the negatives or you can do something about it and roll your fist up and play a hell of a lot better.

Raiders East? ... We'll call them the Raiders West. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, man.

We'll make a tough call here in the next three or four days, ... We have a couple of days to kick the ball on the practice field. We have compiled a lot of statistics and numbers on all their kicks and we'll make that call in the next couple of days.

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

I still think Dexter is a very good player, ... But Will Allen is a guy who, in his second year here, has made a lot of progress. He's got to become a more consistent player, but that should come in time, so that's going to be a very difficult call for us.

We'll see how he is at wake-up call on Sunday morning and we'll see how he is when he gets to the stadium. We'll see how he is and we'll let you know. I just can't come out and say he's not going to play. I can't come out and say he's going to play, and if he does play how many plays.

Obviously we are not blocking well enough, ... We're not calling the right plays. . . . We're just not getting it done right now running the football.

You can't worry about instinct. You have to do what you feel is right at the time, do your homework and make the calls. You have to live with the calls you make and if your heart is in it, at least you feel good at the end of the night, no matter what happens.

I didn't agree with the call and I got out of character. I'm usually very composed on the sidelines. I was out of sorts.

Will has done some good things. That's a real competitive call for us, as far as who is going to be the starter.

Will has done some good things, ... That's a real competitive call for us as far as who is going to be the starter. It was a valuable opportunity for Will Allen to get to the start and play extensively. He's another young guy we're counting on.

He made a big play, obviously, last week blocking the kick to extend overtime. Then finishing the play today basically was the signature play of the game.

If you call plays as a coach in the NFL, it's damn hard to please anybody. If a guy comes in and says, 'You're not working hard enough to get me the damn ball,' of course I'm going to show him that we are.

Veterans Stadium is a historic landmark as far as I'm concerned. I hate to see that place go. I lived under the Vet for three years. ... Our offices at that time were underneath Veterans Stadium. I can recall a lot of interesting things I saw early in the morning underneath the Vet. They were crawling. ... I think it's fitting for Veterans Stadium to close with an NFC Championship Game of this magnitude.

Veterans Stadium is a historic landmark as far as I'm concerned, ... I hate to see that place go. I lived under the Vet for three years. ... Our offices at that time were underneath Veterans Stadium. I can recall a lot of interesting things I saw early in the morning underneath the Vet. They were crawling. ... I think it's fitting for Veterans Stadium to close with an NFC Championship Game of this magnitude.