The game passed him by and he wasn't able to evolve with it. Instead of going more hands-off and letting his coaches do their jobs he kept to the "General Manager" ideal and ran the team into the ground. Then he proceeded to blame everybody but himself. Now that he's out of the way the team has a chance, I hope they do something with it. Davis had the answer back in the '80's, unfortunately he was convinced that he always had the answer, and that it was the same thing. If he had died 20 years ago I'd be sad, now I'm relieved, hopeful, and happy.
And while he ran off some good coaches, Gruden is a team-killer.
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