Coach Gruden says Gresham Job Is Not In Jeopardy

If your like me, the moment the Bengals draft Tyler Eifert with their first round draft pick in the draft, the first thing came to mind was the inconsistent play of Jermaine Gresham and how this was the star to the End for the once top pick of the Cincinnati Bengals. Not so fast Coach Gruden says. "We didn't bring Eifert in here to replace Gresham. He is here to be a part of a 2 TE attack we want to add to our offense." When asked was it a tatic to push Gresham to work harder and push his self to exceed he true potential, Gruden said "Guys should be working hard, to be their very best regardless."

While stating that he is not trying to be like the Patriots, he (Gruden) has admit he has studied the Pats and how they implimented their 2 tight end set. At this point as fans and observers, you don't know what to expect out of Gresham, there has been moments where he showed the type of weapon we all expected him to be, but I think far to often we've more seen the Jermaine Gresham who showed up in Houston first round of the playoffs, and the Gresham who can't take control of the middle of the field and take pressure off Green and the guys on the outside. All these thing being concerned for me, and maybe you but not Coach Gruden;  "Jermaine has already proven he is a good, solid all-around tight end, solid blocker," Gruden said. "He's a big target for Andy. Tyler is a different dimension, little bit more fluid." So how different will the offense looked, When Gruden was asked, he said pretty much the same. "It's just that our base package will probably feature more two tight ends, two receivers rather than one tight end two backs," Gruden said via National Football Post. "We can get everything in our running game in that personnel group. It's taking out a fullback and putting in a heck of a pass catcher and hopefully a good blocker. We like to mix up our personnel groupings and keep defenses off balance hopefully and be diverse in what we do. Our goal is to get our best players on the field." That statement answered another question for me, based off my post yesterday, take the Full back off the needs list. I have a good feeling we won't see a lot of fullback feature in this offense. One thing is pretty clear when it comes to Gruden, he is very excited with his new toys, “It will be great to get [Eifert] in there and work with Jermaine. Those two guys together will be something to deal with,” Gruden said.

John G. Dunn II