MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — With this week’s game preparations completed for the Oakland Raiders, coach Jon Gruden is confident he knows the Miami Dolphins’ playbook, personnel and pronunciations.
It’s TAN-uh-hill.
That’s not the way Gruden said the name when he was a network TV analyst talking about Ryan Tannehill.
“He always pronounced my name funny: ‘Tanney-hill,'” the Dolphins quarterback recalls with a laugh.
Gruden stands corrected.
“I called him that on Monday Night Football a time or two,” the Raiders’ first-year coach says. “I knew a guy named Steve Taneyhill who played quarterback at South Carolina.