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Raiders’ Gruden: Still a force of nature or mellowed with age?

ALAMEDA — The videos, after years of collecting cyberdust, are back in circulation, and only time will tell if future documentation of Gru Part II will have the same look.

A 30-something Jon Gruden giving a forceful lecture to fringe receiver David Dunn about how it’s time that his career either takes off or peters out. Gruden scowling at training camp and barking, “We’re not posing for football cards, gentlemen, we’re not posing for football cards!”

The man was an NFL Films dream. As the late Steve Sabol once told me, “I liken him to a lion tamer.