"Raheem Morris stood on the 30-yard line during a Senior Bowl workout at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on Tuesday afternoon barking out orders, encouragement and instruction to a group of South squad defensive backs.

He was clearly back in his element.

"I just love being out on the grass," Morris said with a fervor that belies the turn his career took when he was fired as head coach of the Buccaneers three weeks ago.

Now serving the Washington Redskins and the Senior Bowl's South squad as their secondary coach, Morris is back where he was before he was named Jon Gruden's successor in Tampa three years ago.

"This is the NFL and whether you're a head coach, a secondary coach or whatever, there's only 32 of those jobs in the world," he said. "And to have one of those 32 jobs to me is just awesome."