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(04-14-2016, 06:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: All of them got old immediately?

After Gruden won the Super Bowl his first year he never won another postseason game in 6 more years with the Bucs.

By 2003 (the year after the SB):

Brad Johnson was 35
Mike Alstott was 30
Keyshawn Johnson was 31
Ken Dilger was 32
Warren Sapp was 31
Derrick Brooks was 30
John Lynch was 32
Keenan McCardell was 33

So much of the core that made up that SB team was at the end of their primes when Gruden took over. It was unrealistic to expect him to keep contending for Super Bowls when so many of them were 30+ when he got there. That's probably why the Bucs made such a desperate move in trading for Gruden in the first place. Heck, most of those players were gone 1-2 years after winning the title.