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Alarmingly Red Jon Gruden: Khalil Mack Didn't Want To Be Here
Future former Raiders coach Jon Gruden will make his regular-season debut tonight against the Rams, but because his team will be ass and because erstwhile Raiders superstar Khalil Mack was a beast yesterday, his team’s lunkheaded decision to trade Mack last week will certainly be a constant topic of...
The Combine At Night Is Where The NFL Happens
INDIANAPOLIS — At 1:12 a.m., my phone lit up with a text. It was one of my spies telling me the party had arrived....
Something About Marquette King Rubbed Jon Gruden The Wrong Way
The Oakland Raiders released punter Marquette King on Friday. King, a one-time All-Pro, had signed a five-year extension in the 2016 offseason. The team cleared $2.9 million in cap space by releasing him, but it sounded like this move wasn’t completely for salary reasons. According to reports, new h...
Just Two Fine Young Boys Enjoying A Basketball Game
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Advocacy Group Asks NFL To Investigate Raiders For Potential Rooney Rule Violation
The Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group devoted to promoting diversity in NFL front offices and coaching staffs, has asked the league to investigate the Raiders for potentially violating the Rooney Rule when they hired Jon Gruden as head coach last week....
Report: Raiders Give 10-Year Contract To Guy Who Hasn't Coached Since 2009
ESPN might not be the first stop for sports highlights, but it’s apparently the place to poach vintage coaching talent. Multiple outlets have reported that Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden is set to finally make his rumored move to become the next head coach of the Raiders. Contract details...
ESPN: Our Employee Jon Gruden Will Be Next Raiders Coach
ESPN is reporting its employee Jon Gruden will leave the company after eight years and take his turkey hole to the Raiders, where he started his head coaching career 20 years ago. The deal to bring Gruden back to coaching could include giving him a chunk of team ownership, again according to ESPN. ...
Report: The Raiders Are Prepared To Dump Out Their Wallets For Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden coached in Oakland for four good years, leading the Raiders to four consecutive .500-or-better seasons, including two playoff appearances and an AFC Championship game. In the 16 seasons since the franchise traded him to the Buccaneers, the Raiders have had four .500-or-better seasons, and...
Why Does Jon Gruden Think The Philadelphia Stadiums Are "Downtown"?
Philadelphia teams have been tanking incompetently since before Sam Hinkie was alive. The 1968 Eagles started out 0-11 and looked like a lock to draft O.J. Simpson No. 1 overall. Then they won two straight to ensure that the Bills would have the top pick. In their 14th and final game that year, a yo...
I Call That The Turkey Hole
In which Jon Gruden speaks at length about turkey holes:...
Jon Gruden's Hulked-Out Son Deuce Is Now A Champion Powerlifter
Deuce Gruden (born Jon Gruden II) is an assistant strength and conditioning coach with his uncle Jay’s NFL team, and he’s also a tiny, powerful weightlifting genius. The 23-year-old is 5-foot-5 and he told TMZ earlier this afternoon that he can squat 622 pounds, which seems like a lot....
Jon Gruden Has Had It With These Geniuses Who Are Ruining Football
The New York Times ran a story this morning on USA Football’s annual conference down in Orlando where officials met and discussed, among many other issues, the precipitous decline of youth participation numbers. They’re trying to correct the course of a sport that’s seen the amount of boys ages 6 to...
Oh Hey, It's Jim Irsay
It had been 18 days since the end of the season since we’d heard hide or hair of Colts owner Jim Irsay, which was very strange considering the questionable job statuses of coach Chuck Pagano and GM Ryan Grigson, both of whom, after another disappointing season, seemed prime candidates to be replaced...
Jon Gruden Whacking Carson Wentz With A Pool Noodle Is The Highlight Of The NFL Offseason
The NFL offseason is a slog that goes from boring to unbearable as we get closer to the draft. The lone beacon of whimsy among the increasingly grim and tired analysis of character issues and 40 times has always been Jon Gruden’s QB Camp, a television show about a guy who says weird shit to young pe...
Report: Jon Gruden Is ESPN's Highest Paid On-Air Personality
James Andrew Miller, author of ESPN history Those Guys Have All The Fun, is a repository for ESPN contract information. From time to time he comes down from the mountain to share data that satisfies our most vulgar desire: to know how much money people on TV make. Last night he revealed that Jon Gru...
John Harbaugh Yells At Jay Gruden Then Bullies Sideline Reporter
John Harbaugh was not a very happy John last night. First, Washington linebacker Keenan Robinson sparked a brawl after pile driving Kamar Aiken down on his neck in the first quarter. Steve Smith and Chris Culliver were then ejected for doing some punches and Harbaugh’s blood also got to boiling, as ...
What's Going On With Jay Gruden And RGIII?
Something shady is what. Last week, Robert Griffin III, the saddest man in the NFL, was left in a preseason game against the Lions for far too long behind an offensive line made up of cellophane and twigs and suffered a concussion that was initially diagnosed as a stinger....