ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Jon Gruden never truly wanted to leave the Oakland Raiders and, really, very few people inside the walls of 1220 Harbor Bay Parkway wanted to part with him.
So with Gruden coming out of ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcast booth to return as Raiders coach, nearly 20 years to the day after he was hired the first time, there is a certain prodigal-son-returning feel to it all.
The question, then, is this: Can he coach in today's NFL?
Sure, he's been in the booth and running his QB camps (that's where he found a certain kinship with second-round draft pick Derek Carr), but the game has changed, no?