Comments on: Report: Gruden Reneged On NFL Network Deal

By: kappa08

kappa08 — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:28:01 +0000

I love how the name calling only goes one way on this board….my comments get pulled because I have the audacity to punch back after my very appropriate response to “so long’s” juvenile getting personal….Gutless cowards…You know better than to go with me I will rip you to shreds.

By: kappa08

kappa08 — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:55:26 +0000

“and by the way”…pppffftttt *wave off*

By: go long

go long — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:41:08 +0000

and by the way DUI-mig has MORE THAN ONE DUI. But I guess only one is ok right? until someone in your family is the one he kills.

By: go long

go long — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:39:49 +0000

kappa – So now his own brother doesn’t like him??!! You are truly an idiot. His brother has been on his coaching staff in Tampa Bay for the past 7 years and won a Super Bowl with him. Try again loser.
You want players who liked Gruden? Try Jerry Rice, Ike Hilliard, Rich Gannon loves Gruden, Sterling Sharpe, Warrick Dunn, Barber, Brooks, Kevin Carter, Hovan, Davin Joseph – mostly the players who actually matter (leaders) – those are the ones who liked him. Ask Antonio Bryant if he liked Gruden – no one else gave Antonio another chance. Ask Jerramy Stevens. You people listen to people like DUI-mig (and don’t give me this higher than thou stuff – SOME OF US DON’T DRIVE DRUNK) and form your opinions. Like a heard of freaking sheep.

By: kappa08

kappa08 — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:26:01 +0000

Before all you glad handlers back into Gruden’s spank ask yourselves this….Name one player that liked working for him?
Before you get all high and mighty about someone pulling a DUI and paying for it. Unlike you self righteous liars that never had “1beer” and hit the road.LOL…know your facts.
Gruden is a punk and will always be a punk…the type of punk that runs his mouth then scoots out the back door when the fight breaks out leaving his “friends” to handle his business.
Don’t take my word for it…ask his brother who can’t sit in a room with him for more than 5 mins. It’s all in black and white in an SI article about Gruden written when he was the golden boy for all.
Look…good for him he not only was able to screw the Glazer’s with 4 million a year and a ticket fan base that had enough of the little failure that couldn’t run an offense. He now screwed NFL football. But hey it’s all good right? He didn’t sign anything right?….Good luck with that attitude when you need you back gotten. Maybe just maybe for ONCE in your life you may have to handle your own business for a change. hahahahahahahahahha

By: go long

go long — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:17:37 +0000

DUI-mig is the biggest farce on radio today. If this is the kind of guy you are going to plug Florio then I may have to reevaluate you.
The contract is not agreed to until it is signed. Just like DUI-mig’s plea bargains aren’t final until he signs them. And the NFLN losing Sheffner was a BIG MISTAKE – their reporting has sucked since he left. They want to play with the big boys and CRY when things don’t go their way. Sour grapes.
Gruden will be great on MNF and when he does return to coaching I hope he coaches an NFC South team so he can kick the Bucs’ a** twice a year for eternity.

By: mskrs

mskrs — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:08 +0000

Pastabelly wrote: “All he cares about is himself and will say nothing controversial because all he cares about is his next deal coaching in the NFL.”
Seems like Gruden wasn’t too concerned with his next coaching gig in the NFL when he left the NFL Network (which is essentially the NFL) at the altar and eloped with ESPN.
Peter King’s report that Gruden was due at NFL Films headquarters this week makes me wonder if they were going to use him in a “Playbook” capacity – breaking down game film (like ESPN has used his new boothmate – Jaworski). It would have been interesting if they had reunited him with Sterling Sharpe (they were tight in Green Bay when Gruden was wide receivers’ coach there) and they did some analysis together.
Oh well, it was not to be.

By: screaming sheep

screaming sheep — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:35:55 +0000

Are you sure its really his Twitter account?

By: mrogers18

mrogers18 — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:28:28 +0000

Ha… Kornheiser just ended the SportsCenter PTI session with him waving his PTI flag and as it blended out he snuck in “maybe I can become an NFL coach now.” He’s awesome on PTI … not so much on MNF.

By: Darth Ringo

Darth Ringo — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:29:32 +0000

@ HaveYouQuitYourDayJob, the Jaws & Grud chemistry remains to be seen.. I suspect it’ll work. The old NFL Playbook show (? forget the name — with Suzy Kolber and Merril Hodge) was quite good, dealing with Xs and Os game planning.
Jaws seemed to lose something doing the vaudeville laugh-a-lot crap with Kornheiser.. talking football with another football guy will improve the broadcasts. Gruden did a good job on the draft on the NFLN.

By: Pastabelly

Pastabelly — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:52:07 +0000

Gruden will suck as an ESPN analyst. All he cares about is himself and will say nothing controversial because all he cares about is his next deal coaching in the NFL. I will always remember him as the one person who really choked that playoff game away to the Patriots in the snow. His game management was overshadowed by a controversial tuck rule call. But he F’d up that game with horrendous playcalling late in the 4th quarter and continued until the final field goal.

By: atomicpunk

atomicpunk — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:49:04 +0000

Classic… Gruden gets two big paychecks, one from MNF and the other from his 3 year contract extension from the Bucs. That guy steps in more $hit….
oh yeah duemig sux.

By: Topher

Topher — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:57:09 +0000

There is no such thing as a verbal agreement. There is conversation. There is discussion. There is an understanding of what might happen. But if it ain’t signed, it ain’t done.
NFL Network lost and they have nobody to blame. If they couldn’t get Gruden to sign then they saw that as a red flag and knew something was up. They sat on their hands and trusted it would work out on its own. That isn’t business, that’s happenstance.

By: eric2706

eric2706 — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:56:59 +0000

F-The big dog. That’s stupid. If ESPN offered me more money I’d take it too. MNF is the ultimate job. I’m sure that was a huge reason why he took it. Duemig ought to be happy Gruden was the coach. That let His buddy Joey G, Sit around and not practice a single day for 3 years and keep a starting job. What other team can he do that? Won’t be N.E. F the big dog. I hate that guy.. and Joey and anyone else who disses Gruden. Gruden saved Joey’s career. The only reason he’s playing at 38 now is cause of Gruden allowing him not to practice. Allowing him to run fly routes and not sending his punk a$$ over the middle or not sitting him for not blocking in the running game. Yeah Gallaway Theres a real reason to hat eGruden for not playing you. How about YOU DIDN’T PRACTICE ONCE WHEN THERE WAS HITTING THE LAST 2 YEARS YOU WERE HERE. Now that Grudens gone Duemig is all on Joe Maddon. The guys show sucks without Gruden to talk about.

By: DarthPirate

DarthPirate — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:50:08 +0000

Actually I think Duemig is accurate. After all it takes an A Hole to know an A Hole.

By: Jersuza

Jersuza — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:43:19 +0000

Steve Duemig is a very good and knowledgeable sports talk show host. There are two things he hates, ESPN and Jon Gruden.
Duemig’s hatred of Gruden in my opinion is obsessive and emotionally dysfunctional. He just can’t let it go.

By: HaveYouQuitYourDayJob

HaveYouQuitYourDayJob — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:24:45 +0000

the agent will follow the money, just ask T.O.
still gotta ask, does this mean Gruden is done coaching?
and how does this really play out with Jaws? Jaws is a QB, Gruden is a QBs coach, either they agree too much or thier at each others throats.
Everyone loves the GRuden to MNF idea (mostly because everyone hated Kornholio) but there is a chance this thing could not go as swimmingly as everyone thinks.

By: tj.52

tj.52 — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:06:39 +0000

“Meanwhile, our old friend Steve Duemig of WDAE in Tampa, a well-known Gruden critic, has unloaded on the former Bucs coach via Twitter: “Now people should believe what I’ve been saying about that a-hole all along,” Duemig says.”
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-Wow, you just quote any and every know-nothing nobody loser who has anything whatsoever to say.
(Don’t quote me)

By: ryanmc

ryanmc — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:00:36 +0000

“Per King, the two sides had finalized “everything but the signature on the paper.””
….and the lesson is: the signature on the paper is a kinda important part of any deal. In fact, it’s really not a deal at all until then.

By: Darth Ringo

Darth Ringo — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:29 +0000

I’m just glad Gruden is on board for MNF, could care less if a network suit feels jilted.

By: thedeej3000

thedeej3000 — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:33:17 +0000

Duemig calling some one an a-hole is like being called fat by Oprah…. or being called a drunk by Dennis Rodman (or Duemig again) or being called illiterate by Dexter Manly or being called a steroid user by Roger Clemons… you get the idea.

By: John Paul

John Paul — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:28:22 +0000

No sympathy for NFLN at all here. Who in their right mind would pass up the opportunity to do Monday Night Football on ESPN (with bijillions of people watching each week) for the sake of doing some tiddleywinks NFLN gig a few times a year? MNF is the most iconic football broadcasting job in the country.
Do most TV sets in the country even *get* NFLN? I mean, from what I’ve seen of it they do a decent enough job, but it’s purely small beans…it’s like working for the “Southern Cuisine Network” or something like that.
No signature, no deal. Simple as that.

By: Campy5

Campy5 — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:28:08 +0000

Peter King renegged on his agreement with Kissing Suzy Kolber not to discuss Mary Beth King ever again too

By: veistran

veistran — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:31 +0000

Presumably the reason they can’t keep Schefter and the reason Gruden shopped his deal to ESPN are one and the same; namely they are being cheap. I wonder when Mike Mayock’s contract is up because ESPN probably nabs him too. Imagine Mayock vs Kiper instead of McDouche it could actually be interesting instead of lame. I can dream!

By: DC_Bengals_Fan

DC_Bengals_Fan — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:10:56 +0000

Come on, anyone’s going to go with MNF if they come calling. In fact, if Gruden’s agent didn’t already have an escape clause in the NFLN contract that allowed him to jump to MNF if it offered, then he’s an idiot. If so, the contract being signed or not wouldn’t have mattered.

By: zertrat

zertrat — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:08:18 +0000

Poor Doomig. He’s a nobody and Gruden is a Superbowl-winning coach and MNF analyst. Little tiny terriers bark like crazy. Kind of a grating high-pitched yap.

By: Jolly

Jolly — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:04:04 +0000

@Favre….Who said: “NFLN is amateur hour, which is disappointing but true.”
I guarantee you do not have NFLN. If it’s Amateur hr why is ESPN trying to poach their talent? I remember DP asking Marshall Faulk blunty if he’d not rather be on ESPN and Faulk lashing out at him sternly….ESPN wishes they had the talent of NFLN.
They may not have the content, but the quality is better.
I really am not sure who would say that a Football man should rather work at ESPN. ESPN is NOT greater than the NFL!!

By: Florida Funk

Florida Funk — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:51:52 +0000

Not that big a deal, Gruden pulled the ‘ol bait and switch. He’s a pro at that…..just some of his former players.
What’s wrong with having 2 organizations battling for your services? Isn’t that what free agency/capitalism is all about? I guess only players can excercise that right. I mean it’s not like the Bucs are paying him millions and millions of dollars not to coach the next 2 years.
Look at Duemig gettin a shout out on PFT. The ever lasting know it all of Tampa Bay sports is now legitimized on a sports blog via the world wide web……for his twittering.
NOW THAT’S BIG TIME BABY

By: ROMO4PRES

ROMO4PRES — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:50:34 +0000

In business, the sale’s not closed until the deal is signed.

By: Favre2012

Favre2012 — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:39:23 +0000

OMG, Gruden would rather do 16 games than, what, the four or so that NFLN has?
AND contracts need to be written out to make things official?!
HUGE surprise.
NFLN is amateur hour, which is disappointing but true.