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Raiders, Jon Gruden Reach Settlement On Contract

Oct 28, 2021 8:48 AM

Jon Gruden resigned, but the balance of his 10-year, $100 million contract was unresolved when he walked away from the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this month.

Mark Davis said Wednesday that a settlement had been reached.

Gruden reportedly had $40 million in remaining guaranteed payments.

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Madden To Remove Jon Gruden From Video Game

Oct 14, 2021 8:58 AM

EA Sports has announced that Jon Gruden's likeness will be removed from Madden 22 in the "coming weeks."

Hours before Gruden's resignation, the New York Times revealed he sent numerous racist, homophobic and misogynistic emails to former Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen while serving in ESPN's "Monday Night Football" booth.

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Derek Carr: 'Open Up' All NFL Team Correspondence

Oct 15, 2021 9:04 AM

Derek Carr has an idea in the wake of Jon Gruden's resignation after leaked emails showed he had used racist, misogynistic and anti-gay language over a seven-year period: "Open up everything."

"If we just started opening up everybody's private emails and texts, people would start sweating a little bit. ... Hopefully not too many. But maybe that's what they should do for all coaches and GMs and owners from now on, is open up," the Las Vegas Raiders' quarterback said. "You've got to open up everything. See what happens."

Of Gruden, Carr said: "I love the man, [but] you hate the sin. No one's perfect."

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Raiders Name Rich Bisaccia As Interim Head Coach

Oct 11, 2021 9:59 PM

The Las Vegas Raiders have replaced Jon Gruden with Rich Bisaccia on an interim basis. 

Bisaccia joined the Raiders in 2018 as assistant head coach and special teams coordinator. 

Bisaccia previously was with the Dallas Cowboys and then-San Diego Chargers after a lengthy stint under Gruden with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

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Jon Gruden Steps Down As Raiders' Head Coach

Oct 13, 2021 9:24 AM

Jon Gruden has informed his staff that he plans to step down as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, reports Tom Pelissero.

An NFL investigation has shown that Gruden casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes, according to a report from the New York Times.

Gruden denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem.

Gruden's emails were sent to Bruce Allen and others while he was working for ESPN.

In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “faggot” and a “clueless anti football pussy” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.

The NFL said last week that it shared emails with the Raiders in which Gruden made derogatory comments.

Gruden also criticized President Obama during his re-election campaign in 2012, as well as then-vice president Joe Biden, whom Gruden called a “nervous clueless pussy.” He used similar words to describe Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association.

Gruden returned to the NFL as a head coach in 2018 by signing a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Raiders. 

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NFL Condemn Jon Gruden's Racist Email Comment About DeMaurice Smith

Oct 8, 2021 5:38 PM

A Wall Street Journal story noted that Jon Gruden, then working for ESPN and now coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, referred in a racist way to DeMaruice Smith’s facial features in an email approximately 10 years ago.

“The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL’s values,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.”

The league is looking into the matter and a person familiar with that probe told The Associated Press that disciplinary action is possible for Gruden. 

Gruden’s comment in an email to then-Washington Football Team President Bruce Allen came during the 2011 lockout of the players by the NFL.

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