JON GRUDEN has teased a return to coaching by promising to make a comeback.
Gruden resigned from the Las Vegas Raiders in 2021 after controversial emails from his past leaked.
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Since leaving the Raiders, Gruden has stayed in the spotlight by working for Barstool Sports.
And the 61-year-old spoke to reporters while visiting former coaching protege – new Detroit Lions offensive coordinator John Morton.
It allowed Gruden to reveal his plans to make a coaching comeback.
“Hopefully I’m not done,” Gruden said. I’m about to make a comeback.
“I’m working hard to maybe get one more shot, but hopefully some of these guys that fell off my branch, if you say it that way, maybe they can hire me cause I’m looking for a job.”
“I don’t care if I coach at Jones Junior High,” Gruden added. “I’m going to coach again. I’m still coaching.
“I’m just not on a team officially, but I do have some private assignments I work on and I wear some gear when I’m watching the games that nobody knows about who I’m pulling for.”
On October 8, 2021, inappropriate emails from Jon Gruden’s past became public knowledge after being reported on by the WSJ.
Days later, Gruden stepped down from his position as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
“I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders,” Gruden said in a statement, published October 11.
“I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”
The emails dated back all the way to 2010, and saw Gruden refer to NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, as a “f****t” and “clueless anti-football p***y.”
During Obama‘s re-election campaign in 2012, Gruden reportedly referred to now-President Joe Biden as a “nervous clueless p***y.”
According to the WSJ, the league discovered these messages while reviewing 650K emails during an investigation into the Washington Football Team’s workplace culture.
The outlet also reported that Gruden had exchanged emails including photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, as well as an image of two Washington team cheerleaders.
Gruden reportedly also used racist language in a 2011 email to describe the appearance of executive director of the National Football League Players Association, DeMaurice Smith.
