To this very day, the Carolina Panthers still don’t have Jon Gruden feelin’ nicey.
The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach was featured on the latest episode of Barstool Sports’ Pro Football Show. And Gruden, while making his picks for the Week 16 slate of NFL action, took a brief and unpleasant trip down memory lane when talking about the Panthers . . .
Jon Gruden has never and will never like the Carolina Panthers
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Gruden headed the Buccaneers from 2002 to 2008, a run that actually began with a Lombardi Trophy out of Super Bowl XXXVII. But he wouldn’t see much success against John Fox and his Panthers over those seven years in the NFC South, as Gruden’s Bucs went 5-9 against Carolina.
He did, however, best the Panthers on two occasions as the head coach of the Raiders—both of Oakland and Las Vegas. The first win, a 52-9 triumph, came in 2000 with the second going down two whole decades later in 2020.
