{"id":141381,"date":"2025-08-13T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:45:17","slug":"jon-gruden-i-look-forward-to-having-the-truth-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141381\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Gruden: “I look forward to having the truth come out”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, only Jon Gruden\u2019s lawyers spoke<\/a> in the aftermath of a major victory<\/a> over the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell in the Nevada Supreme Court. On Tuesday, Gruden issued a statement to his former employer, ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to having the truth come out<\/a> and I want to make sure what happened to me doesn\u2019t happen to anyone else,\u201d Gruden said in the statement.<\/p>\n

If\/when the case moves forward in Nevada state court, Gruden\u2019s lawyers will have the right to seek evidence regarding the person(s) who leaked emails from the Washington investigation to multiple media outlets, in an alleged effort to end his tenure with the Raiders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe league\u2019s actions disrupted the whole season,\u201d Gruden added. \u201cWe were leading the division at the time, and they completely blindsided me and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s exactly right. Even if Gruden objectively deserved to be pushed out based on emails sent while, coincidentally, he was working for ESPN, someone from a small group of people who had access to the emails chose to leak them during the 2021 season. The situation could have been handled in June, when the emails were first flagged. The situation could have been handled after the season. Instead, someone weaponized the emails and forced the Raiders to change coaches on the fly.<\/p>\n

With Rich Bisaccia as the interim coach, the Raiders made it to the playoffs and nearly beat the Bengals in the wild-card round. The Bengals, in turn, nearly won the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened wasn\u2019t right and I\u2019m glad the court didn\u2019t let the NFL cover it up,\u201d Gruden said.<\/p>\n

The league will still try to cover it all up, through an appeal<\/a> aimed at forcing Gruden\u2019s case into the secret, rigged, kangaroo court of arbitration. If the United States Supreme Court eventually gives the league what it wants, it\u2019s likely that no one will ever know the truth about who leaked the emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, only Jon Gruden\u2019s lawyers spoke in the aftermath of a major victory over the NFL and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-141381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115019404154141238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}