***UPDATE***
https://t.co/4I2tPRALVm story reported Jon Gruden had interest in becoming #Eagles HC. Got response from Gruden 2night. "I'm not interested"
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) January 8, 2016
***ORIGINAL ARTICLE***
This is rapidly becoming a TV Drama’esque storyline. Just hours after the Eagles have interviewed Ben McAdoo, it appears that there’s an old flame who would fancy stepping up to the plate as the Eagles Head Coach..and that man is Jon Gruden.
According to Paul Domowitch of Philly.com, it looks as though Gruden would be prepared to take a deep breath and work calmly alongside Howie Roseman. You can read the entire report here.
“…a league source told the Daily News that he has informed Lurie, through an intermediary, that he is interested in the Eagles’ head-coaching job.
The source said that while Lurie likes and respects Gruden, who was the Eagles’ offensive coordinator in 1997-98, he has reservations about the ESPN Monday Night Football analyst’s ability/willingness to play nice with Roseman, who has returned to a seat of personnel power now that Chip Kelly is gone.
Gruden has told people that working with Roseman wouldn’t be a problem. But Kelly said the same thing when he was hired in 2013, and look how that turned out.”
Gruden is a name that has been doing the rounds on social media recently as fans talk about who they wish to see as Head Coach but it looks as though Jeffery Lurie isn’t too set on the idea..and who could blame him?
Coming out of one turbulent tenure and heading straight into another would be Lurie’s worst nightmare..not only that but it’s not as though Gruden is out of money at the moment. ESPN are paying him handsomely in a deal that runs through 2021 and it would surely take a lot to pry him away from such a pampered role.
Gruden has been out of a coaching job since 2008 but has a delicate history with the Eagles, being their Offensive Coordinator back in the mid 90’s..his last role before moving on to become a Head Coach..so could this history somehow spark a return for Gruden?
