With all of his studying of the game during his 9 years away from coaching while part of the Monday Night Football crew, there may be an aspect of the game that Gruden didn’t notice had drastically changed — how it’s covered.
When Gruden last coached in 2008, facebook and twitter weren’t a thing yet. The age of social media means even the smallest soundbites get taken out of context and misinterpreted a hundred different ways. So, when he stepped to the mic at the combine in from of a national audience for the first time as the returning Raiders head coach, he was his usual witty self.