“At the end of the day, every year we feel we owe it to this football team and this community to do a good honest assessment of our franchise. If at any point, we feel that change is in our best interest, we feel we have to make that change. You can’t let decisions you made a year ago affect a decision today.”

Joel Glazer said that after firing Jon Gruden as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gruden had previously masterminded the only Super Bowl triumph in the Bucs’ existence, the youngest coach ever to win American football’s glittering prize.

The Glazers had awarded him a three-year contract extension but sacked him only 12 months later after a winning 9-7 season when the