Before Paul Guenther went cross country, he took one of the longest walks off his life when he ventured to the corner office at Paul Brown Stadium to tell Bengals president Mike Brown he was leaving to join Jon Gruden in Oakland
“That was tough. I owe a lot to Mike and the family. I became a coach there,” said Guenther Tuesday after all the pomp and circumstance associated with officially being named the Raiders defensive coordinator. “But I thought I had to get away and find out how somebody else did it and to get a shot at being a head coach.