Jon Gruden walked into Tampa Bay in 2002 like a man carrying the future of the Buccaneers on his shoulders. The front office paid a massive price to bring him in, sending two first-round picks, two second-round picks, along with $8 million plus cash to seal him. At first, it looked like a master move for the Bucs faithful. Yet seven seasons later, Gruden walked out of the building after getting fired in January 2009. And oddly enough, he blames quarterback Matt Ryan for it.

“I was in Tampa. I was a head coach, and Bill Parcells was running the Miami Dolphins, and they had the number one pick, and my offensive line coach was Bill Muir,” Gruden opened up on the Inner Circle podcast and dropped a wild story. “And I told Bill Muir, I said, ‘If the Dolphins take [QB] Jake Long, I’m going

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