Bruce Irvin has been making the media rounds this week as he celebrates his graduation from West Virginia six years after leaving the school to play in the NFL.

On Saturday afternoon, Irvin appeared on SiriusXM NFL Radio and said it was when he arrived in Oakland that he really began to focus on his personal life:

“When I got to Oakland, that’s when I really started to focus on my life after football and focus in on Bruce Irvin the person, just not Bruce Irvin the football player.”

Irvin also talked about his new head coach and removed any doubt that Jon Gruden is somehow lost in another era of football.

“Gruden is all football. When you look around the building, the TV screens is all football, X’s and O’s. He’s an energetic guy. What you see is what you get. He’s not going to sugar coat it. He’s gonna tell you the truth and that’s what you want in your head coach.”

“Guys was kinda worried with him being out of the game for 8-9 years if he would try to come back and try to be old school style, but it’s completely different. He let us run the team.”

“He’s doing a hell of a job and I think guys have bought in and I think guys are ready to go in and bust their tail for him.”

Interesting in Irvin’s remarks is the fact that Gruden is allowing the leaders of the locker room to “run” the team – something that for one reason or another never happened last year.

Also noteworthy is the fact that players on the team apparently wondered if “old school” football would be returning with Gruden.

Wonder where they got that wacky idea?

It sounds like that narrative, in the locker room at least, has been squashed for good.

Sorry, AFC West. No wishbone offense coming to Oakland after all.

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