When Jon Gruden decided to return to the then Oakland, now Las Vegas Raiders’ sideline, there was no doubt that part of his reasoning was ego-driven.
Over the years, many people have discredited Gruden’s 2002 Super Bowl Championship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by stating “it was Tony Dungy’s team” or “Gruden did it with Dungy’s players”. Dungy was of course Gruden’s predecessor in Tampa Bay and the latter won the Lombardi Trophy the same year he replaced the former.
This was the biggest knock on Gruden’s legacy, but it didn’t seem to bother him at the time.