Here’s Why Jon Gruden Really Had to QUIT Coaching The Raiders

Jon Gruden has resigned from coaching the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden, who has led Vegas to a 3-2 record so far is resigning after emails surfaced in which he said a lot of things he should have not said. Listen, the NFL doesn’t care if you don’t like a certain race, identity, gender, etc. The NFL only cares when you mess the money up.

By letting those emails surface Gruden messed the money up so he had to go. I can imagine there are a lot of coaches and general managers scrubbing their email servers as I type this.

Here are the details:

Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football,” the sports network’s weekly prime-time telecast of N.F.L. games. In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “f—–” and a “clueless anti football p—-” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “q—-s,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.

In numerous emails during a seven-year period ending in early 2018, Gruden criticized Goodell and the league for trying to reduce concussions and said that Eric Reid, a player who had demonstrated during the playing of the national anthem, should be fired. In several instances, Gruden used a homophobic slur to refer to Goodell and offensive language to describe some N.F.L. owners, coaches and journalists who cover the league.