Jon Gruden Last Quotations

Kenyatta started every game last year and helped us make the playoffs. We made great strides on offense last season and it was our goal to keep everyone on board so that we could continue that improvement.

We met regarding his comments last year. The whole situation is done and over with,

His performance in the last 15 or 16 games has helped us turn the corner and at least be competitive,

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.

He made a big play to block the kick to extend last week's game in overtime. What he did today was come up with the signature play of the game. His best times are ahead of him.

Like last year, they are fully capable of turning it around.

I was very happy with the last three days of Clayton's camp,

I was very happy with the last three days of it. The first 10 or 12 days, he was sluggish. He missed the whole offseason coming off of surgery. The last two or three days particularly, you see the life in his legs, the stamina, the physicalness that he possesses.

We've had games in our pocket and then have been mugged. We've had games taken from us in key stages of the fourth quarter. It's a sick feeling. Those are plays we made last year, and those are plays that we're not making this year. Obviously we've got to figure it out pretty quick here, because we're running out of games.

We're trying to put it together the right way. It might take us a little time. . . . But we're all the same in this business. You're only as good as your last game.

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

It was very scarily familiar to me, ... You know, a missed field goal, a missed extra point costs you games. I'm sure they're sick about that today. If you're going to finish last in field goal accuracy, you're not going to win many games.

What happened last year is not going to hurt us or help us in any way. We realize we have our hands full. We're going to get on a plane and we'll go and we'll play any place, be it the Vet or on the Walt Whitman Bridge.

Brian Griese took a big step last year, completing 69.3 percent of his passes,

Thirty-one of 31. The last time I checked, that's pretty good. I think, too, having been in Europe, getting accustomed to a new holder is a process in itself. . . . And France is on a roll right now. These aren't just extra points. Some of these are bombs from 44-, 48-, 50-yard area. He's been good from all the hashes.

You're only as good as your last game.

I'm more concerned with Shelton's injury than I am concerned with Nate. Nate's a fine football player. He played a lot snaps for us last year -- not a lot of people know that,

Not necessarily. We really worked hard on the draft the last couple years, being a part of it, so we know a lot of the players that are on the waiver wire from our research, ... And we know a lot about our players that didn't make this team also. Not necessarily, but familiarity can help you, you bet, when it's close.

They know this is an area that we've got to make dramatic improvement in. If this guy can come through or if it's Matt Bryant, so be it. So far, we like what we've seen out here in the last four or five days from both of them. But Todd France definitely stood out.

You can't start games like that. We've had a real problem with that around here. We played good, solid defense the last 20 minutes of the half.

For a lot of guys, it'll be their last game as a Buc, ... It's a sensitive time for them and for us. There's been a lot of hard work put in by a lot of people. We're going to let a lot of these guys play again and get one more chance to shine.

It's a big game. It's the last regular-season game and I think everybody realizes what happens if you win and what happens if you lose.

We're going to try to see if the front-line players are front-line players. We also want to look at the depth of our roster to make sure that we take advantage of the last evaluation for a lot of these guys. We're going to try to do it all in this game.

We gave him the ball in week five last year so we obviously thought he showed promise and improvement,