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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned last Monday after emails featuring racist, anti-gay and misogynistic language were leaked to the public. Those messages were among the 650,000 emails that were part of the NFL’s investigation into sexual harassment and verbal abuse allegations within the Washington Football Team organization.
The Gruden emails could have purposefully been leaked to the public, per Peter King of NBC Sports’ conversations with “several smart people in the league.” He wrote the following in his latest Football Morning in America piece Monday:
“I don’t know where the emails came from. Several smart people in the league think the leaks come from the Snyder camp. Maybe he feels steamrolled by the league in its July penalty, though it was certainly exactly the opposite. Maybe (probably) he’s so anti-Allen that he’d have a jihad out for him and anyone close to him, which Gruden is.”
Gruden sent emails to ex-Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen, hence their inclusion in the NFL’s investigation.
The messages were sent between 2011-2018, when Gruden worked as an NFL analyst for ESPN before the Raiders signed him to a 10-year, $100 million contract in 2018.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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