Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Glazers replace Jon Gruden as coach with plan that could be bold or reckless
January 17
St. Petersburg Times columnist John Romano
"Today, you are a Glazer.
You have decided all of the time, money and emotions you have invested in Jon Gruden are no longer paying dividends. You have convinced yourself that the moment is ripe for a change.
You have season ticket holders rethinking their investment, you have fans shouting about your commitment to winning, and you have an offense still stuck somewhere between third and long.
Today, you are a Glazer.
Are you comfortable hiring Raheem Morris?
This is the move the Glazers have already made.
They have tossed aside the coach with the most wins in franchise history, the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl, and a man they are contractually obliged to pay more than $15-million the next few years, in exchange for a 32-year-old who has never been a head coach in his life.
So I suppose this morning you could surely call the Glazers bold.
Or reckless.
You could say they are staying one step ahead of the rest of the NFL.
Or about to fall far behind.
"We have a plan in our mind," Joel Glazer said Friday night, "and, again, that will all unfold."
This is not a family that acts emotionally or with undue haste. They were not crossing this street without knowing what was on the other side.
Remember this:
The last time they fired a coach, they had Bill Parcells waiting in the wings. And when that fell through, they spent dearly, in cash and draft picks, to pry Gruden loose from Al Davis' sanatorium.
The time before that, the family chased Steve Spurrier and Jimmy Johnson before settling on Tony Dungy.
In other words, the Glazers have a history of reaching for the stars, literally and"
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