Gruden gushes, but Williams is in running

Did you catch the way Jon Gruden was practically panting on “Monday Night Football” a couple of days ago with his praise of Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams?Gruden said, among other things, that DeAngelo may be the best back in the NFL. Gruden said there's a “debate” about that title in the NFL, but then left the unmistakable impression that he thought the Panthers' No.34 was indeed the best. When fellow MNF announcers Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski teased Gruden about it, asking if his “sources” had ever heard of Minnesota's Adrian Peterson, Gruden stuck to his guns. He also said that while coaching Tampa Bay he kept thinking DeAngelo was getting stopped behind the line on a first-and-10 and all of a sudden it was instead second-and-10 or second-and-5. Gruden also sounded almost lovestruck when he said that in the crew's pregame meeting with DeAngelo he “hated to say goodnight.” And MNF also put up some statistics during th...