Jon Gruden despatched one other warning shot towards the NFL after scoring a serious win in court docket.
On Tuesday, Gruden welcomed a ruling that can drive the NFL to litigate the circumstances of his firing in court docket relatively than closed-door arbitration. The previous Las Vegas Raiders coach made clear that he intends to proceed his authorized problem to the NFL to make sure that they’re held accountable.
“I’m wanting ahead to having the reality come out, and I wish to be certain what occurred to me doesn’t occur to anybody else,” Gruden said in a statement provided to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. “The league’s actions disrupted the entire season. We had been main the division on the time they usually utterly blindsided me and the group.”
The Raiders had been 3-1 in 2021 when Gruden was pressured to resign after some offensive emails that he sent between 2011 and 2018 had been leaked. Gruden has alleged that the NFL leaked the emails to drive him out of a job after acquiring them throughout an investigation into the Washington Commanders.
The NFL is ready to attraction Monday’s ruling, but when that attraction fails, the league could also be pressured into public discovery. One different could be to supply Gruden a settlement, however he has not stated whether or not or not he could be inquisitive about such a decision.
Gruden has not held an NFL teaching job because the Raiders pressured him out. He has just lately spoken about possibly making a return to coaching on the school stage.
