Jon Gruden made his triumphant return to the fields of Napa with almost his entire team in attendance Friday, barking out orders 17 years after he last stepped on a training camp field with the silver and black.
Gruden was animated (shocker!) and right back at home after six weeks away from his whole team. Asked if he had any flashbacks to his first training camp go-round with the Raiders, he joked, “I did when I saw Jerry walk up,” referring to our own veteran Raiders beat man Jerry McDonald.
“My role at the beginning of practice is to let the assistant coaches do the fundamentals, a lot of the techniques that we’re coaching,” Gruden said.