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Originally Posted by MTK
Jay had a good point that as the HC you can't control the culture if you don't have a say in who comes or goes. Ron has that at least.
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I preface this with saying I have not listened to the interview so my judgement mainly comes from the comments on the board. No one forced Gruden to stay for 5 years ending up with a net worth of 12Million dollars for coaching this team in a sea of mediocrity. From the comments here, I hear a whining motivationally challenged leader who neither inspired players, nor earned enough respect to even call the most basic goal line play in existence. Gruden may not have known DS before the RGIII/KC debacle, but by the Haskins draft he certainly had enough leverage to say if I don't get to pick the QB I'm leaving (and at that point someone would have hired him as a HC).
This isn't a defense of Snyder, but it's a fallacy at the highest to say that JG couldn't control the culture. He set the culture by accepting mediocrity, by not standing up for his players, and by being inept at understanding his players (for example: why set your qb up for failure by calling a play the WR doesn't like). The KC kneel even more now highlights a myriad of failures at a leadership level on both the part of KC and on Gruden.