The Detroit Lions are getting ready for to face the Oakland Raiders, and our writers are getting a glimpse of how the players get ready for the game. Dave Birkett, Shawn Windsor and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press
Coach speak sucks.
We hear it far too often in news conferences, when football coaches are understandably wary of saying the wrong thing. Most don't want to bash their own players, most don't want to give their opponents bulletin-board material and few say anything useful as it relates to game-planning.
But what about TV speak?
Before he became coach of the Oakland Raiders, Jon Gruden spent nine seasons in the broadcast booth as the color analyst on "Monday Night Football.