At least one prominent former Raider isn’t sold on the idea of Jon Gruden coming back to the silver and black.



In a wide-ranging interview with USA Today, John Madden said he thinks Gruden has been out of coaching too long.

“The further you get away from it — the game changes from week to week, from month to month and from year to year,” Madden said. “So the more years you’re out, they’re playing a different game than he coached. The game that Jon Gruden coached isn’t the game they’re playing now.”

Gruden was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008 and is an analyst on ESPN’s Monday Night Football. He has never ruled out a return to coaching, while never embracing it either.