Jon Gruden Marks Senior Bowl Standouts With Raiders Stickers So He Doesn’t Forget Who He Liked
Turns out that when Jon Gruden said he wanted to bring back coaching strategies from 1998, he also meant motivational tactics from that era as well. As Gruden and the rest of his Raiders staff coached the North to a 34-24 victory over the South in this year’s Senior Bowl, he decided congratulate each impact player on the field by slapping a sticker of the Raiders logo on their helmet—a move that simultaneously gave players something to work for, while also serving as a bit of a recruiting (or potentially tampering) technique. One of the more notable recipients of the sticker-slap was Duke...
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