Former Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden has been away from the league for a couple of months but is hoping to change that soon. Gruden recently appeared on the RapSheet and Friends podcast and said he would still like a head coaching job this offseason but will take a year off if he needs to.
“Hopefully I'll get an opportunity to talk to some owners and maybe get another opportunity to be a head coach,” he said. “I could take a year off if I don't get that job that I'm looking for, or if I don't get offered one.”
Gruden said he still gets up early and misses being around the guys. He would like to get back into a head coaching job soon to give him somewhere to go.
“I'm itching to do something,” Jay Gruden said. “I'd like to have an office to go to. That's the hardest thing. … Definitely it is a life-changer.”
The one big stopping issue for Jay Gruden is he didn't have a lot of success with the Redskins, and it's hard to imagine another team is going to be offering him a job to lead the team. With the Redskins, he had 35 wins, 50 losses and one tie in five-plus seasons. He also only made one playoff appearance.
If a head coaching job doesn't come along, Gruden said he would be okay taking an assistant job, maybe with his brother Jon Gruden.
“He's got a complete staff right now, so they don't have any job openings right now,” Gruden said. “I'll have to look at different avenues first and then if that offer comes at a later time then I'll have to look at it.”
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