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JANUARY 20, 2009

It was gut check time for Dominik

In case you missed the item in the Times this morning, Mark Dominik was hospitalized Thursday following surgery to remove his appendix.

He checked himself out of a Tampa hospital Friday upon learning the Glazer family had decided to promote him to general manager.

We're told the Glazers were unaware of Dominik's illness. It illustrates how caught off guard everyone within the organization was of plans to fire coach Jon Gruden and GM Bruce Allen Friday.

Dominik, 37, is doing much better, thank you. "I really was hoping nobody would find out about that,'' he said. "But I feel pretty good.''

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