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SPORTSWednesday 3 January 2018

Black Monday was the prospect of Jon
Gruden leaving the broad-
Continued from Page 18 casting booth and return-
ing to the Raiders.
Arians, who has been deal- with his grey goatee, Arians was on the hot seat. But back, and that the owner ESPN reported that Raid-
ing with health problems, said an eye opener came his boss, John Elway, slept and the front office need ers owner Mark Davis was
including a bout with kid- over the summer when his on it and decided to keep to be on the same page. trying to lure Gruden back
ney cancer, announced wife told him his son, Jake, Joseph and not begin a The five vacancies (six to the sideline with an offer
he was leaving Arizona, was soon to turn 40. search for the team’s fourth counting the Giants, who that could include an own-
though that was widely ex- “It hit me like a ton of bricks, coach in five years. fired Bob McAdoo earlier in ership stake.
pected. that I missed all that time,” “We believe in Vance as December) naturally trig- In Houston, Texans general
In a teary news confer- Arians said. “That’s the cul- our head coach,” Elway gered a flurry of specula- manager Rick Smith said
ence, the 65-year-old Ari- ture. I probably wouldn’t tweeted . tion about which assistant he would leave the team
ans called his stay in Ari- change anything.” “Together, we’ll put in the coaches might be moving for at least a year while his
zona, which included 49 Joseph, a rookie head work to improve in all areas on to take over the teams. wife, Tiffany, fights breast
victories over five seasons coach who oversaw a 5-11 and win in 2018.” Panthers defensive coor- cancer.
“a great ride.” Sporting his season that included an The Marvin Lewis situation in dinator Steve Wilks con- There had been specula-
trademark cap and toying eight-game losing streak, Cincinnati — well, it’s com- firmed that the Colts, Lions tion that coach Bill O’Brien
plicated. Lewis completed and Giants had asked him might lose his job, though
his 15th season with the to interview. it appeared O’Brien would
Bengals, and conventional Patriots coordinators Josh stay on. Smith dismissed the
wisdom held that he might McDaniels and Matt Pa- notion that he and O’Brien
not be asked to return. He tricia were, as usual, on a don’t get along, saying
met with owner Mike Brown number of lists, and Eagles they have a great working
on Monday, but no conclu- defensive coordinator Jim relationship.
sions were reached. Lewis Schwartz was considered “We continue to do that
said the decision was more one of New York’s top can- and that’s another reason
complicated than man- didates. why this is a decision that I
agement simply asking him Maybe most intriguing can make,” Smith said.q

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search for Patriots
assistant coaches

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a chance to make their “We’ll see how it goes.”
case. McDaniels has gone
McDaniels and Patricia through this before, when
said Monday morning that he was hired to coach the
they hadn’t heard from Denver Broncos in 2009; he
any suitors yet. lasted less than two sea-
sons. q