Jon Gruden and the Raiders “agreed to part ways” a little over a month ago, and he’s still in the news.
This time it’s because Brent Musburger has made some wild accusations about how and why he was time with the Raiders came to an end.
Musburger says that.
As I told Coach, whoever took you out, Jon, that was a paid assassin,” Musburger told J.T. The Brick of the Las Vegas Sports Network. “That was one of the best hit jobs that I’ve ever been around. They didn’t go to their media goombahs. They didn’t leak this to Adam Schefter or one of those guys that breaks stories. They first went to the Wall Street Journal. And when Gruden was still coaching after that, then they dumped the rest of it on the New York Times. That was a professional hit job.”
“There was a second lawsuit involved, OK?” Musburger said. “Between the owner, [Daniel] Snyder of Washington, and a former General Manager. And that means that a lot of outside people had access to those emails that they were going through. So I think the hardest part for Gruden’s lawyers to prove is that somebody from the National Football League actually leaked that. Because if it is somebody from the NFL, shame on them. Because Mark Davis should have been told in the summer, when he had something to do about it.”
That’s a pretty wild accusation. I don’t put anything past anyone, so it could be true, but it doesn’t sound likely. Gruden did say all that racist, homophobic, and sexist stuff in those emails, so he’s the one to blame.
In the end, if Gruden weren’t saying wild things in the email, he would still be employed. Gruden said some pretty wild things that, if made public even back then, likely would have gotten him fired if he was coach of a team.
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