Jon Gruden decided to step down from his position as a head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden resigned on Monday night, and the team confirmed the news via their social media.

The Raiders will turn to Rich Bisaccia, the team’s special teams coordinator, as an interim head coach for the time being.

Gruden’s resignation comes after reports surfaced about him using offensive language in a series of controversial emails from 10 years ago.

“I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction,” Gruden said in a statement. “Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”

Jon Gruden was hired by the Raiders in 2018, agreeing to a 10-year, $100 million deal with the organization. Since then, Gruden posted a 22-31 head coaching record and was yet to have a winning season. The team started the 2021 campaign with 3-0 but has found itself on a two-game losing streak since then.

This was his second stint with the Raiders, having previously led the franchise between 1998 and 2001. Gruden also coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with whom he won the Super Bowl XXXVII.

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The Las Vegas Raiders were one of the first teams penalized this year for not following COVID-19 protocols, but it appears that they haven’t learned from their mistakes.

The team was fined yet again, this time receiving a hefty fine of $500,000 to pay. On top of that, the Raiders will be stripped of their sixth-round draft pick because of repeated violations.

The league began another investigation into the Raiders organization after their star offensive tackle Trent Brown tested positive for COVID-19 in late October.

On top of all these punishments, head coach Jon Gruden was fined for the second time this season for failing to consistently wear his mask during the games and will have to pay a $150,000 fine. Gruden was already fined $100,000 earlier in the season for the same violation.

In total, the NFL has now taken $1.2 million and a draft pick from Las Vegas because of COVID-19 protocol violations.

League sources say that NFL investigators found several health and safety guideline violations while visiting the team’s facility. The Raiders were also reprimanded earlier for allowing players to attend a large indoor gathering and allowing unauthorized personnel into the locker room after a game.

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Week 9 of the 2018 NFL season saw the race for the playoffs spots heating up. The Carolina Panthers and Los Angeles Chargers are ready to make some big noise, and it is hard not to see them in the postseason if they continue to play on this level.

On the other hand, the Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens continue to have one good week and two bad ones and are close to being eliminated from the playoff talks.
What else did we learn from Week 9 of 2018 NFL season? Check out below.

Pittsburgh Steelers Don’t Need Le’Veon Bell

While many doubted that Pittsburgh Steelers could survive without their All-Pro running back Le’Veon Bell this season, the team is better than ever on the offensive end. Steelers didn’t even feel his absence since James Conner, who stepped in after Bell decided not to hold out, is producing at an even higher rate.

Aaron Rodgers is wasting his Best Years in Green Bay

Although we were high on the Green Bay Packers before the season started, the team is far away from being a contender. Instead of surrounding Aaron Rodgers with the talent he deserves, Packers are trading away talented players and digging themselves even a bigger hole. Rodgers is wasting his best years in Green Bay, and hopefully, he will recognize that before it’s too late.

Drew Brees is the MVP

Can you believe that despite all of his accomplishments and broken record in NFL, New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees never won a regular season MVP award? Well, this mistake should be fixed in 2018. Brees is not only putting ridiculous numbers once again, but he is also establishing the Saints as the top team in the league. And he is doing it in his 18th season in the league. So, let’s lock it in already and give the award to the man who deserves it.

Jon Gruden is Getting Paid $10 Million a Year to Tank

Lastly, Week 9 of 2018 NFL season showed us that the Oakland Raiders are in the tanking business because they have lost to a team led by an undrafted quarterback who played his first game in NFL. And we learned that Jon Gruden wasn’t given $10 million yearly salary to win but to tank.

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Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden isn’t having a great start to the 2018 season as he hoped for when he signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with the team in January. Back then, the 55-year-old announced big things and promised that his team would play great football. Instead, the Raiders are now one of the rare NFL teams with a 0-3 record and pretty much out of playoff picture.

It looks like Gruden realized that he can’t back up his previous statements, and has now started to preach patience, saying that the “results will happen” at some point.

”It’s justifiable,” – said Gruden off criticism aimed towards him after a bad start. “I have a pretty good idea of what this business is all about. But I’m also realistic. I’m also very optimistic. I’m going to continue to work hard. I think I have as good a coaching staff as there is in football. The results will happen. It might not happen this week. It might not happen this month, next month, but we’re going to get results here, and we’re going to get this Oakland Raider football team back on track. We just have to prove it.”

It wasn’t a surprise that Oakland Raiders looked at Jon Gruden as their savior. He already coached the team with success between 1997 and 2001 and was the man who denied them a Super Bowl trophy in 2002 as a coach of Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Raiders had a winning season only once since then, and it was almost poetic when they turned to Gruden and convinced him to come out of semi-retirement.

But, the football changed a lot since Jon Gruden coached the last time, and it remains unclear how will he adapt to the new NFL. So far he struggled, but our hunch tells us that the Raiders will give him more than enough time to settle in even if that means one or two embarrassing seasons.

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ESPN reports that Jon Gruden being a new head coach for the Oakland Raiders is a done deal. According to ESPN‘s Adam Schefter, Gruden will sign one of the longest coaching deals in NFL history, inking a 10-year contract, worth around $100 million. This means that Gruden will be one of the best-paid members of the Raiders since only three players (Derek Carr, Kelechi Osemele, and Gabe Jackson) are earning more than $10 million annually. The Raiders will officially introduce Gruden on Tuesday when they called up a news conference.

Although a surprise, Gruden’s 10-year contract isn’t a first in the league’s history since Dallas Cowboys previously gave both Jimmy Johnson and Tom Landry 10-year deals. It does, however, show how Raiders are desperate to get their man. The owner Mark Davis was so determined to hire Gruden that he was ready to offer him an ownership stake in the team as part of the deal.

NFL announced on Friday that during their search for a new head coach, the Raiders compiled with Rooney Rule which requires the team to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs.

“We believe the Rooney Rule was complied with. Minority candidates were interviewed,” – said NFL executive vice president of communications Joe Lockhart during a conference call. “We’ll see what decision they make.“

Jon Gruden will make a return to Oakland Raiders, who gave him his first head coach job in 1998. In his first stint with the team, he compiled 38-26 record before being traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004. On his first season with the Buccaneers, Gruden won the Super Bowl after 12-4 regular season finish. He served as team’s coach until 2008, when he was fired. Gruden’s career record is 100-85 and 5-4 in the postseason. He currently serves as an analyst for ESPN‘s Monday Night Football.

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After missing the playoffs this season and compiling a 6-10 record, the Oakland Raiders are on a search for a new head coach. Jack Del Rio was fired on Monday, and the Raiders already know their top target. According to multiple reports, the team is trying to get Jon Gruden back. Current Monday Night Football analyst already coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001 and wouldn’t have anything against coming back.

“I think there’s a good chance. I’m excited about where I am in terms of studying the game and preparing to come back and coach, I just don’t want to sit here and speculate,” – Gruden said when asked whether there is a chance for him to coach the Raiders again. “It’s almost like – I don’t know what’s going to happen, I’ve got to be honest with you. It’s been a long couple of weeks, I know they’ve gone through their process of interviewing candidates and until they’re done I won’t know, but I did have a good meeting with Mark, I’ve known him a long time and got a lot of respect for the Raider football organization.“

Ever since he left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2009, Gruden has been mentioned as a candidate for numerous vacant coach spots in NFL but never did take any. This time could be different, given his connection with the Raiders organization.

The decision to move on from Jack Del Rio might be a strange one for the Oakland Raiders – especially since Del Rio signed a 4-year contract extension at the beginning of the season – but the fact is that he didn’t do much this season. The 2017 season should have been the breakthrough for this Raiders team, but it turned out opposite and it looked like the team regressed. Del Rio had a 25-23 record during his time with the Raiders.

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Jon Gruden decided to step down from his position as a head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders. Gruden resigned on Monday night, and the team confirmed the news via their social media.

The Raiders will turn to Rich Bisaccia, the team’s special teams coordinator, as an interim head coach for the time being.

Gruden’s resignation comes after reports surfaced about him using offensive language in a series of controversial emails from 10 years ago.

“I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction,” Gruden said in a statement. “Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”

Jon Gruden was hired by the Raiders in 2018, agreeing to a 10-year, $100 million deal with the organization. Since then, Gruden posted a 22-31 head coaching record and was yet to have a winning season. The team started the 2021 campaign with 3-0 but has found itself on a two-game losing streak since then.

This was his second stint with the Raiders, having previously led the franchise between 1998 and 2001. Gruden also coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with whom he won the Super Bowl XXXVII.

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The Las Vegas Raiders were one of the first teams penalized this year for not following COVID-19 protocols, but it appears that they haven’t learned from their mistakes.

The team was fined yet again, this time receiving a hefty fine of $500,000 to pay. On top of that, the Raiders will be stripped of their sixth-round draft pick because of repeated violations.

The league began another investigation into the Raiders organization after their star offensive tackle Trent Brown tested positive for COVID-19 in late October.

On top of all these punishments, head coach Jon Gruden was fined for the second time this season for failing to consistently wear his mask during the games and will have to pay a $150,000 fine. Gruden was already fined $100,000 earlier in the season for the same violation.

In total, the NFL has now taken $1.2 million and a draft pick from Las Vegas because of COVID-19 protocol violations.

League sources say that NFL investigators found several health and safety guideline violations while visiting the team’s facility. The Raiders were also reprimanded earlier for allowing players to attend a large indoor gathering and allowing unauthorized personnel into the locker room after a game.

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Week 9 of the 2018 NFL season saw the race for the playoffs spots heating up. The Carolina Panthers and Los Angeles Chargers are ready to make some big noise, and it is hard not to see them in the postseason if they continue to play on this level.

On the other hand, the Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens continue to have one good week and two bad ones and are close to being eliminated from the playoff talks.
What else did we learn from Week 9 of 2018 NFL season? Check out below.

Pittsburgh Steelers Don’t Need Le’Veon Bell

While many doubted that Pittsburgh Steelers could survive without their All-Pro running back Le’Veon Bell this season, the team is better than ever on the offensive end. Steelers didn’t even feel his absence since James Conner, who stepped in after Bell decided not to hold out, is producing at an even higher rate.

Aaron Rodgers is wasting his Best Years in Green Bay

Although we were high on the Green Bay Packers before the season started, the team is far away from being a contender. Instead of surrounding Aaron Rodgers with the talent he deserves, Packers are trading away talented players and digging themselves even a bigger hole. Rodgers is wasting his best years in Green Bay, and hopefully, he will recognize that before it’s too late.

Drew Brees is the MVP

Can you believe that despite all of his accomplishments and broken record in NFL, New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees never won a regular season MVP award? Well, this mistake should be fixed in 2018. Brees is not only putting ridiculous numbers once again, but he is also establishing the Saints as the top team in the league. And he is doing it in his 18th season in the league. So, let’s lock it in already and give the award to the man who deserves it.

Jon Gruden is Getting Paid $10 Million a Year to Tank

Lastly, Week 9 of 2018 NFL season showed us that the Oakland Raiders are in the tanking business because they have lost to a team led by an undrafted quarterback who played his first game in NFL. And we learned that Jon Gruden wasn’t given $10 million yearly salary to win but to tank.

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Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden isn’t having a great start to the 2018 season as he hoped for when he signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with the team in January. Back then, the 55-year-old announced big things and promised that his team would play great football. Instead, the Raiders are now one of the rare NFL teams with a 0-3 record and pretty much out of playoff picture.

It looks like Gruden realized that he can’t back up his previous statements, and has now started to preach patience, saying that the “results will happen” at some point.

”It’s justifiable,” – said Gruden off criticism aimed towards him after a bad start. “I have a pretty good idea of what this business is all about. But I’m also realistic. I’m also very optimistic. I’m going to continue to work hard. I think I have as good a coaching staff as there is in football. The results will happen. It might not happen this week. It might not happen this month, next month, but we’re going to get results here, and we’re going to get this Oakland Raider football team back on track. We just have to prove it.”

It wasn’t a surprise that Oakland Raiders looked at Jon Gruden as their savior. He already coached the team with success between 1997 and 2001 and was the man who denied them a Super Bowl trophy in 2002 as a coach of Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Raiders had a winning season only once since then, and it was almost poetic when they turned to Gruden and convinced him to come out of semi-retirement.

But, the football changed a lot since Jon Gruden coached the last time, and it remains unclear how will he adapt to the new NFL. So far he struggled, but our hunch tells us that the Raiders will give him more than enough time to settle in even if that means one or two embarrassing seasons.

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ESPN reports that Jon Gruden being a new head coach for the Oakland Raiders is a done deal. According to ESPN‘s Adam Schefter, Gruden will sign one of the longest coaching deals in NFL history, inking a 10-year contract, worth around $100 million. This means that Gruden will be one of the best-paid members of the Raiders since only three players (Derek Carr, Kelechi Osemele, and Gabe Jackson) are earning more than $10 million annually. The Raiders will officially introduce Gruden on Tuesday when they called up a news conference.

Although a surprise, Gruden’s 10-year contract isn’t a first in the league’s history since Dallas Cowboys previously gave both Jimmy Johnson and Tom Landry 10-year deals. It does, however, show how Raiders are desperate to get their man. The owner Mark Davis was so determined to hire Gruden that he was ready to offer him an ownership stake in the team as part of the deal.

NFL announced on Friday that during their search for a new head coach, the Raiders compiled with Rooney Rule which requires the team to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs.

“We believe the Rooney Rule was complied with. Minority candidates were interviewed,” – said NFL executive vice president of communications Joe Lockhart during a conference call. “We’ll see what decision they make.“

Jon Gruden will make a return to Oakland Raiders, who gave him his first head coach job in 1998. In his first stint with the team, he compiled 38-26 record before being traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004. On his first season with the Buccaneers, Gruden won the Super Bowl after 12-4 regular season finish. He served as team’s coach until 2008, when he was fired. Gruden’s career record is 100-85 and 5-4 in the postseason. He currently serves as an analyst for ESPN‘s Monday Night Football.

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After missing the playoffs this season and compiling a 6-10 record, the Oakland Raiders are on a search for a new head coach. Jack Del Rio was fired on Monday, and the Raiders already know their top target. According to multiple reports, the team is trying to get Jon Gruden back. Current Monday Night Football analyst already coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001 and wouldn’t have anything against coming back.

“I think there’s a good chance. I’m excited about where I am in terms of studying the game and preparing to come back and coach, I just don’t want to sit here and speculate,” – Gruden said when asked whether there is a chance for him to coach the Raiders again. “It’s almost like – I don’t know what’s going to happen, I’ve got to be honest with you. It’s been a long couple of weeks, I know they’ve gone through their process of interviewing candidates and until they’re done I won’t know, but I did have a good meeting with Mark, I’ve known him a long time and got a lot of respect for the Raider football organization.“

Ever since he left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2009, Gruden has been mentioned as a candidate for numerous vacant coach spots in NFL but never did take any. This time could be different, given his connection with the Raiders organization.

The decision to move on from Jack Del Rio might be a strange one for the Oakland Raiders – especially since Del Rio signed a 4-year contract extension at the beginning of the season – but the fact is that he didn’t do much this season. The 2017 season should have been the breakthrough for this Raiders team, but it turned out opposite and it looked like the team regressed. Del Rio had a 25-23 record during his time with the Raiders.

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