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Add another prominant vote for Jon Gruden as the next Eagles head coach. This time, the endorser is ex-coach Dick Vermeil, who led the Eagles to a Super Bowl appearance and won one with the St. Louis Rams. "My choice would be Jon Gruden," Vermeil told 94 WIP's Anthony Gargano and Glen Macnow Tuesday afternoon. "I just think he's a helluva of football coach, and I don't want him to make the mistake I made, to wait too long to go back. I just think he's a helluva football coach and a great personality. ..."
Reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Gruden, an Eagles OC who won a Super Bowl as coach of the Buccaneers, has lately been in the Monday Night Football broadcasting booth - and apparently off the radar of the Eagles' brain trust in their search to replace the recently fired Andy Reid. On Monday, the club's ignoring of Gruden was strongly questioned by ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, who was quarterback during Vermeil's Super Bowl run with the Eagles. Jaworski told Mike Missanelli of 97.5 The Fanatic that he'd spoken with Gruden, who was eager to coach again for the right team, but had heard not a word from Philadelphia. Instead, the Eagles initially focused on "second-tier candidates," Jaworski said. "I lump all these candidates now into one box right now. There's a lot of guys who were assistant coaches that haven't proven themselves. ..." One first-tier guy, Lovie Smith, is scheduled to interview with the Eagles Thursday.
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