When describing Tampa Bay Buc coach Jon Gruden, several adjectives come to mind: "intense," "fiery," "Chuckie-like," "arrogant prick."Add a new one: "generous." Some would say that his choice to kick a meaningless field goal in the waning seconds of the Bucs pathetic showing at Pittsburgh on Sunday was made in an attempt to put some garbage time score on the board, an absurd attempt to silence his critics and invigorate his team.
Those people would be wrong. No, the first game ending garbage time field goal in seventy-three YEARS was done out of concern for his 23 year old rookie QB, Bruce Gradkowski. Young Bruce is from the Pittsburgh area, and Gruden sent the field-goal unit on the field so that Bruce "would come away with something positive from his first NFL game there."
No shit, Jon? How considerate. I'm sure that when that FG went through the uprights, Grads memory of his 3 interception, 5 sack, 35.8 QB rating performance vanished.
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