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Dan Snyder, Commanders leaked emails that got Jon Gruden fired

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The call is coming from inside the house.

Bruce Allen, the former general manager of the Washington Commanders franchise, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives that owner Dan Snyder and his staff were the ones who leaked a series of racist, homophobic and misogynistic emails between Allen and former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden.

Allen testified that he was told by an NFL executive, and the move was made in an attempt to shift blame off Snyder as the team was the subject of numerous investigations into workplace misconduct.

“By June 2021, Mr. Snyder went one step further: he identified for the NFL ‘specific inappropriate Bruce Allen e-mails’ to bolster the claims that Mr. Allen was to blame for the toxic workplace culture,” the report issued by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform read.

“Public reports indicate that, although the NFL found Mr. Allen’s e-mails troubling, it determined that they were ‘outside the scope if the original probe into the Washington Football Team.’ Approximately four months later, in October 2021, Mr. Allen learned that many of the ‘inappropriate’ e-mails obtained by Mr. Snyder from his Commanders e-mail account had been leaked to the Wall Street Journal. According to Mr. Allen, when he called NFL’s counsel, Lisa Friel, to complain, she indicated that the Commanders were responsible for the leak, stating ‘We didn’t do it at the league office. It came out of their side.’”

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Gruden, with whom Allen exchanged the emails, was the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders at the time of the leak, which occurred during the 2021 NFL season. In the emails, Gruden said then-NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith “had lips the size of michellin [sic] tires,” while also ripping female referees, players who kneeled for the National Anthem and the Rams for drafting openly gay player Michael Sam.

Snyder had been facing a wide variety of allegations of his own. Congress opened a probe into a variety of workplace misconduct claims, with female employees alleging wide-scale sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. Snyder himself was also accused of sexual misconduct by a woman in a 2009 incident on the team plane.

The report found that Snyder had a direct role in the sexual misconduct the team was being investigated for, with allegations including he inappropriately touched a woman at a team dinner, among other accusations.

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With the walls closing in on Snyder, Allen is alleging that he leaked the emails to the Wall Street Journal in order to blame the team’s former GM for the workplace culture.

Gruden bore the brunt of the leak, as he was fired by the Raiders after the emails surfaced. He has attempted to defend himself by saying he doesn’t “have a racial bone in his body” in response to the email about Smith. Gruden is in the midst of suing the NFL to uncover who was behind the leaks.

Snyder, who has owned Washington since 1999, has taken initial steps to sell the team, hiring Bank of America Securities to facilitate a potential sale.

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Jon Gruden Emerges With A Sorry Excuse And Sorrier Haircut

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Almost one year after accomplishing the “clean sweep” of bigotry in his leaked emails, former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has reappeared in public, just in time for the start of football season. Surely that’s no coincidence.

The disgraced, red-faced coach sat for an interview Tuesday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club, where he talked about caddying for John Daly, the Arkansas Razorbacks, and the future of football. His answers weren’t that illuminating. Late in the conversation, Gruden was asked about the lawsuit he filed against the NFL, in which he claims that the league selectively leaked his homophobic and racist emails last October to ruin his career. At that point, the actual purpose of this softball interview seeped through. (The clip is below, but you can find the full interview here.)

Gruden didn’t say much about his civil suit, since it’s ongoing, but he did address those emails—by saying he’s a family man who is also religious:

I am not going to say anything but honest things here. I am ashamed about what has come about in these emails, and I’ll make no excuses for it. It’s shameful. But! I am a good person, I believe that. I go to church. I’ve been married for 31 years. I’ve got three great boys. I still love football. I’ve made some mistakes, but I don’t think anybody else in here hasn’t. I just ask for forgiveness, and hopefully, I get another shot.

As far as I know, siring Deuce doesn’t have any correlation to being a slimeball who talks about the size of DeMaurice Smith’s lips. Are they supposed to cancel each other out? Right after that answer, Gruden complained about how ESPN, his former employer, was doing fake news:

But I get choked up, because there’s a lot of misunderstanding out there right now: what you read, what you hear, what you watch on TV. Hell, I worked at ESPN for nine years. I worked hard at that job. I don’t even want to watch the channel anymore, because I don’t believe everything is true. And I know a lot of it is just trying to get people to watch. But I think we’ve got to get back to reality, and that’s why I look forward to Saturdays, because you’re gonna get what you deserve when the whistle blows, and we’ll see if the Razorbacks can get after Cincinnati, which I hope they do.

This is the kind of shit that’ll kill with the audience at the Little Rock Touchdown Club, and it did. After Gruden said he hoped he got another opportunity to coach football, the crowd clapped for 17 seconds, like the guy went through a near-death experience.

Gruden kept mentioning how he’d love to coach again, even in high school, because what else is he going to do? Sure, this guy loves his family (and church, I guess), but it’s so painfully clear that football is the only way he can function day to day. I say this not to make a case for Gruden to get another job, but to marvel at how pathetic he is. He has all the free time in the world and can’t think of another way to use it. Gruden yearns to chew out some second-string player on a hot August day. He wants nothing more than to flirt with another .500 season record.

It would be totally unsurprising to find out that current-day Gruden, with nothing to do, parks himself at a Hooters every weekday around the lunchtime hour, similar to how Raiders owner Mark Davis would post up at a P.F. Chang’s in the Bay Area. Imagine that scene. Everyone within a one-table radius is subject to getting sucked into a conversation with the lonely man eating wings, to hear about what he learned from Bill Walsh, or how Frank Caliendo razzed him but he’s actually a really sharp guy. You know, I have Mike Tirico’s phone number, he says to the four men intently focused on the TV showing Around the Horn. They pretend not to hear him.

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Raiders cutting Alex Leatherwood highlights failures of Jon Gruden, Mike Mayock regime

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The Raiders released tackle Alex Leatherwood on Tuesday, just a year after taking him with the 17th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft. Cutting a first-round draft pick after just one season is a stunning move — except that with Raiders draft picks of the Jon Gruden/Mike Mayock era, it’s actually not much of a surprise.

Gruden was the Raiders’ head coach and Mayock the general manager for three drafts, 2019-2021, and the Raiders made some astonishingly bad selections during that time.

Leatherwood is actually the third consecutive Raiders first-round draft pick not to even make it through two years on the roster: The Raiders had two first-round picks in 2020, Henry Ruggs and Damon Arnette, and they were both released during the 2021 season.

The Raiders had three first-round picks in 2019, and those three fared better — but not a lot better: Clelin Ferrell, Josh Jacobs and Johnathan Abram have all struggled to make a major impact, and the Raiders didn’t pick up the fifth-year option on any of their contracts.

And the bad drafting under Gruden and Mayock went beyond the first round. Trayvon Mullen, the Raiders’ 2019 second-round pick, was traded to the Cardinals yesterday for a conditional seventh-round pick. The Raiders had three third-round picks in 2020 — Lynn Bowden, Bryan Edwards and Tanner Muse — and none of them is still with the team, either.

First-year Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler didn’t inherit a lot of good young talent when they took over the team that Gruden and Mayock left behind. The Raiders’ draft picks of recent years have been a lot of misses.

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Carolina Panthers expected to target Jay Gruden, Bill O’Brien in offensive coordinator search, sources say

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The Carolina Panthers are expected to target former NFL head coaches Jay Gruden and Bill O’Brien in their search for a new offensive coordinator, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The Panthers also are expected to be interested in talking with Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell about the vacancy, sources told Schefter.

Carolina enters the season finale ranked 30th in the NFL in total offense and 29th in scoring. Senior assistant Jeff Nixon has been the interim offensive coordinator since Joe Brady was fired last month.

Sources previously told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that the Panthers plan to keep Matt Rhule as their head coach for 2022 and will begin their search for a new offensive coordinator this week.

Gruden, the younger brother of former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, was the head coach of the Washington Football Team for six seasons from 2014 to 2019 and spent last season as the Jaguars’ offensive coordinator. He also was the Bengals’ offensive coordinator for three seasons before being hired by Washington.

O’Brien is the offensive coordinator at Alabama, which faces Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday night.

Also reportedly a candidate for the Jaguars’ head-coaching vacancy, O’Brien spent parts of six seasons as the head coach of the Texans from 2014 to 2020.

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Washington Football Team should not have changed name from Redskins, Jay Gruden says

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Jay Gruden, the former head coach of the Washington Football Team, said in an interview on Wednesday that he disagreed with the team’s decision to change its name from the Redskins.

Gruden, who was fired in 2019 after a 0-5 start to his sixth season, told the “Russell & Medhurst” radio show that he had little interest in ruffling feathers, but said the team “should have never changed the name in the first place.”

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The team announced on Tuesday that it will unveil its new team name next month. The team decided to change its name in the 2020 season because of controversy surrounding its former Indian head logo and name that Native American advocates have called a racial slur.

Head coach Jay Gruden of the Washington Redskins looks on before the game against the New England Patriots at FedExField on October 6, 2019 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
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One of the radio hosts told the former coach that he is not alone in his opinion about the name change.

“With the fanbase here, that’s probably the greatest thing you’ve ever said to them, because I think 90% of the fanbase agrees with you 100 percent on that as well,” he said.

Taylor Heinicke of the Washington Football Team drops back to pass during the third quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles at FedExField on January 02, 2022 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
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Jason Wright, the team president, said in an episode of the team-produced show “Making the Brand” that the franchise is on the “brink of starting a new chapter, but our history, our legacy cannot be lost along the way.”

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Gruden’s brother, Jon, has sued Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL, alleging that a “malicious and orchestrated campaign” was used to destroy his career by leaking old emails he had sent that included racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments.

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Jon Gruden sues NFL, commissioner Roger Goodell

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The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Clark County, Nevada District Court.

Gruden resigned in October as head coach of the Raiders after reports emerged of him using homophobic, racist and misogynistic language in emails while he worked as an ESPN analyst.

“The complaint alleges that the defendants selectively leaked Gruden’s private correspondence to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in order to harm Gruden’s reputation and force him out of his job,” Gruden’s attorney Adam Hosmer-Henner said in a statement. “There is no explanation or justification for why Gruden’s emails were the only ones made public out of the 650,000 emails collected in the NFL’s investigation of the Washington Football Team or for why the emails were held for months before being released in the middle of the Raiders’ season.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told CNN in a statement, “The allegations are entirely meritless and the NFL will vigorously defend against these claims.”

The suit claims the NFL’s actions have led to Gruden suffering from “severe financial damages and harm to his career and reputation.”

Though the source of the leaked emails is unknown, the lawsuit claims they were leaked by the NFL and alleges the league deliberately sought to hurt Gruden while other details of the investigation into the Washington football team were kept secret. McCarthy told CNN in October the league had no plans to release more details from the investigation for confidentiality reasons.

“Out of 650,000 emails obtained months earlier in connection with the investigation into workplace misconduct by the Washington Football Team, Defendants weaponized a small subset that were authored by Gruden prior to his hiring by the Raiders. Defendants then purposefully leveraged these emails to cause the termination of Gruden’s coaching contract, endorsements, and sponsorships,” the lawsuit says.

Investigation came after accusations against Washington team management

In July, the NFL announced it fined the Washington organization $10 million after an independent investigation found the club’s work environment was “highly unprofessional,” especially for women.

The fine cames after 15 former female employees and two journalists who covered the team accused team staffers of sexual harassment and verbal abuse. The club launched an investigation last July, which the NFL took over in August.

In October, the Wall Street Journal reported Gruden used racially insensitive language to describe NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith in a 2011 email.

Then the New York Times reported it reviewed more emails and found Gruden denounced women being employed as on-field officials, a team drafting an openly gay player, and the tolerance for national anthem protesters.

Many of Gruden’s emails, covering a seven-year period, were sent to Bruce Allen, the Washington team’s then-president who was fired in December 2019, according to the Times.

A league source, just before Gruden resigned, confirmed the accuracy of the Times’ story to CNN.

Gruden was one of the NFL’s highest-paid coaches, having signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Raiders, according to salary tracking website Spotrac.

He first coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001, then won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002. At the time, Gruden was 39 and then, the youngest coach to win the Super Bowl.

He left the Bucs in 2008 and became a football analyst for ESPN and his messages were sent while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football,” the Times reported.

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Raiders reach undisclosed contract settlement with Jon Gruden just weeks after coach’s resignation over emails

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When Jon Gruden originally signed on to coach the Raiders back in 2018, the long-time NFL coach signed a monstrous 10-year deal that was scheduled to pay him nearly $100 million. After his resignation on Oct. 11, one of the key things that had to be figured out between Gruden and the Raiders was how much money he was going to walk away with. 

Apparently, the two sides have finally hammered out a deal. At the NFL owners meetings in New York on Wednesday, Raiders owner Mark Davis confirmed that he has reached a settlement with the team’s former coach, according to the Athletic. 

Although the details of the settlement aren’t known, the team still owed Gruden nearly $40 million in guaranteed money at the time of his resignation. Due to the way his tenure ended with the Raiders, there’s a good chance Gruden didn’t walk away with the full $40 million, but you can also probably assume that he didn’t walk away empty-handed. The former Raiders coach resigned from his job after multiple emails leaked earlier this month that showed him using misogynistic, homophobic and racist language during conversations with former Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen. 

During his talk with the media on Wednesday, Davis made sure to note that he wasn’t happy with the NFL about how the situation played out. If the NFL had access to the emails in the summer, Davis wants to know why he didn’t get them then. 

“It’s a timing issue, that’s probably the disappointment that I had,” Davis said. “If we had gotten the information in the summer, when they learned about it, it would have been a lot easier for everyone involved.”

If that had happened, the Raiders could have parted ways with Gruden during the offseason, which would have given a new coach some time to get acclimated to the team. Instead, Gruden resigned five weeks into the season, which means the Raiders will have to play the rest of the year with an interim coach. 

Davis was so upset with how the email situation was handled that he actually called on the NFL to release a written report of the entire Washington Football Team investigation. 

“I think that there should be, yeah,” Davis said when asked if there should be a written report, via ESPN.com. “Especially with some of the things that were, I guess, charged. Yeah, I believe so, I think people deserve [a written report], especially people that were, quote, victims.”

As for the Gruden situation, Davis was asked why he let him coach in Week 5 against the Bears even though some of the emails had been leaked out in the days before the game. 

“We found out about it Thursday [before the Bears game] from the Wall Street Journal,” Davis said. “We didn’t hear about it from the league. And (the Wall Street Journal) wouldn’t give us the email at that time, so we didn’t really have it, it was a rumor to us. We then spoke with the league and they said they had that and other emails. We didn’t see those until Friday.”

After getting the emails on Friday, Davis didn’t just want to dump Gruden without looking into things first. 

“I wanted to do the due diligence, I wasn’t just going to rush to judgment on Jon,” Davis said. “So we went through the process. We talked to a lot of the alumni, we talked to a lot of the players, we talked to a lot of the people involved in the situation and came to the decision.”

Less than 24 hours after the Raiders 20-9 loss to Chicago, Gruden had resigned his job. 

“He’s hurt,” Davis said of Gruden, via ESPN.com. “He’s really hurt, and I understand that. But he understands the ramifications of what he said.

The Raiders have actually been on a roll since Gruden’s resignation. The team has gone 2-0 without their former coach to push their record to 5-2, which is tied for the best mark in the AFC. 

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Raiders’ Mark Davis calls for NFL to release report on WFT investigation, takes dig over Gruden scandal

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Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis said Wednesday that he believes the NFL should release a written report on its findings in its 10-month investigation into Washington’s workplace misconduct and also called into question the timing of the Jon Gruden email scandal.

Following Wednesday’s gathering of owners at the Fall League Meeting in New York, Davis was asked by reporters if he felt the league should release a report — something NFL commissioner Roger Goodell previously said he had no plans of doing. 

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“Probably. Yeah, I think that there should be, yeah,” he said. “Especially with some of the things that were, I guess, charged. I believe so. I think I believe that people deserve [it], especially the people that were ‘victims.'”

Goodell said Tuesday he would not release a report on its findings in order to protect the identities of those who testified. He also said he believed Washington owner Dan Snyder “has been held accountable.” 

Davis appeared to take a slight dig at the NFL over the investigation after Jon Gruden resigned as head coach earlier this month as a by-product of it. Leaked emails that were reviewed as part of the league’s investigation this summer revealed racist, homophobic, and misogynist comments he made to former team executive Bruce Allen between 2010-2018. 

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“It’s a timing issue,” Davis said, via NFL.com. “That’s probably the disappointment that I had.”

“The fact that they may have known about it a couple of months beforehand and didn’t let us know about that. We weren’t informed until, I guess it was that Thursday (Oct. 7), and we heard it from The Wall Street Journal initially. It was a rumor initially, they wouldn’t give us the email at the time, The Wall Street Journal wouldn’t. We spoke to the league later on that afternoon and by Friday (Oct. 8), they started giving us all the information, I spoke with the Commissioner and those things. But I believed if we’d have gotten the information earlier in the summer when they learned about it, it would’ve been a lot easier for everyone involved.”

 Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden talks with quarterback Derek Carr (4) during the second half against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium.
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Davis declined to get into specifics when asked if he believed the Raiders were treated unfairly. 

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“No, I’m not gonna get into any of that,” he said. “We’re Raiders. We’re used to this. That’s just what our life is about. It is disappointing, just the whole thing with Jon, you know. It’s just life.”

DENVER, COLORADO – OCTOBER 17: Owner Mark Davis of the Las Vegas Raiders looks on before the game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field At Mile High on October 17, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
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Davis said that while he never experienced those sentiments Gruden portrayed in the emails, the Raiders stand by his resignation.

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Jon Gruden to HBO: “The truth will come out”

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We haven’t heard much from Jon Gruden since he abruptly resigned as Raiders head coach 10 days ago. HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has heard a little more.

Andrea Kremer, who recently profiled Raiders owner Mark Davis for the show, explains on the latest episode of the Real Sports Podcast that a producer recently cold-called Gruden.

“Maggie Burbank, who produced the story that we just did on Mark Davis, she actually called Gruden and he picked up the phone, much to I think her surprise,” Kremer said. “And he’s still in Las Vegas. . . . He says he’s letting the dust settle. He said, ‘People who know me know what I stand for for 58 years. I have a resume of 58 years.’ He said, ‘The truth will come out.’ It’s certainly cryptic.”

It remains to be seen where and how the truth will come out. As Myles Simmons and I discussed on Wednesday’s #PFTPM, litigation would be one vehicle for the truth coming out. And not litigation between Gruden and the Raiders, but litigation between Gruden and the NFL, for a legal theory such as tortious interference with business relationships.

In theory, the Raiders could join Gruden in that fight.

“Mark Davis has been severely impacted,” Kremer said. “And I’m not defending Mark Davis. I’m just pointing out a fact here. Dan Snyder continues on. The Washington Football Team continues on.”

Someone decided to pull the pin on the Gruden grenade during football season, leaking documents and forcing action in early October. It could have happened before the season. It could have happened after the season. In either of those cases, the Raiders would have been in a much better position.

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More Jon Gruden Email Released, Shows Him Calling Out Colin Kaepernick – Deadline

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Colin Kaepernick should have been cut for kneeling during the national anthem, according to a newly uncovered email exchange between former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden and ex-GM Bruce Allen of the Washington Football Team.

“They suspend people for taking amino acids, they should cut this f**k,” Gruden wrote in an email to Allen, according to Yahoo Sports.

Kaepernick has not played in the National Football League since 2017, when he opted for free agency. When Kaepernick was not re-signed, he filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging a conspiracy by the owners. The lawsuit was eventually settled.

Starting in 2016, Kaepernick began kneeling for the national anthem before games, allegedly to protest police brutality and racial injustice. Players on other teams picked up on his lead, eventually prompting the NFL to adopt a different approach to player relations and become more woke. That included messages on its helmet and in the end zone, having the so-called “Black National Anthem” performed before games, and donating a large sum of money to various Black causes.

Kaepernick is still training each day, hoping for yet another shot in the league.

Gruden resigned earlier this week as Raiders coach after many emails revealed racist, misogynistic, and anti-gay language.

The NFL is under pressure to release more information from its investigation into the Washington Football Team culture.

The former Washington Football Team (WFT) employees sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell earlier this year that asked him to make the league’s investigative reports findings public.



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