NFL teams doing ‘extensive homework’ on Jon Gruden over controversial emails as offseason approaches: report
AND Super Bowl winning head coach he may return to battle in 2025.
According to the NFL Network, teams are reportedly keeping tabs Jon Gruden.
However, it’s not as easy as interviewing a football coach — apparently those teams are doing “extensive homework” on Gruden “as a coach” and “as a person” given the controversy that hit him a few years ago.
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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden looks on from the sideline against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the second quarter at Heinz Field. Las Vegas won 26-17. (Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports)
He’s fat to sue the NFLclaiming to have leaked emails to remove him from his job — it was reported that he sent racist, misogynistic and homophobic emails to commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association CEO DeMaurice Smith, among others in the email.
“I am ashamed of what came out in these emails and I will not apologize for it. It is shameful,” Gruden said in August 2022. “But I’m a good person. I believe in that. I go to church. I’ve been married for 31 years. I have three great boyfriends. I still love football. I’ve made some mistakes, but I don’t think nobody’s here and I’m just asking for forgiveness, and I hope that I will get another chance.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden leads the North team at the 2007 Under Armor Senior Bowl in Mobile on January 27. (A. Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
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Even so, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero said he “wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Jon Gruden’s name come up in head coaching interviews in the coming weeks,” via New York Post.
Gruden, who last coached in the 2021 season after his 10-year contract with the Las Vegas Raiders was terminated amid controversy, joined Barstool Sports in November. There was reportedly interest from the New Orleans Saints in Gruden joining the staff last year.
Gruden coached the then-Oakland Raiders to the AFC Championship Game in 2000. In his first year as head coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he won Super Bowl XXXVII over his former Raiders.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl XXXVIII against the Oakland Raiders at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, CA on January 26, 2003. (IMAGIN)
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He was inducted into the Bucs Ring of Honor in 2017, but was removed in 2021 due to scandal.
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