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It actually wasn’t that way back within the scheme of issues when Jon Gruden was thought of a real NFL teaching wunderkind within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000’s. He paid that off when he gained Tremendous Bowl XXXVII with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a recreation that now occurred 21 years in the past.
However, his teaching profession flamed out in spectacular style when offensive emails he had despatched to former Washington Commanders President Bruce Allen have been revealed as a part of an NFL investigation into the Washington franchise beneath former proprietor Dan Snyder in the course of the 2021 season.
Gruden has not had an on-field teaching position since, as these emails have been fairly inflammatory. Gruden made racist, homophobic, and in any other case offensive feedback in these emails, and groups fairly frankly don’t need to deal the adverse PR of a man who wasn’t precisely lighting the world on fireplace in his second stint with the Raiders from 2018 till his dismissal in 2021.
However, Jon Gruden popped up at coaching camp in full Kansas Metropolis Chiefs garb in St. Joseph, Missouri on Sunday, elevating eyebrows.
It makes some sense, as Andy Reid and Jon Gruden have been each assistants on the legendary Packers teaching staffs of the mid 1990’s beneath Mike Holmgren. And, Gruden was quietly across the New Orleans Saints final 12 months, too.
However, it’s arduous to think about the Chiefs, who clearly have issues rolling as back-to-back Tremendous Bowl champs and don’t actually need a shake-up, would announce Gruden as an official member of the employees in any capability. I can’t think about Andy Reid would permit a PR firestorm like that for little extra profit.
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs open up their preseason subsequent Saturday in opposition to the Jaguars. If Jon Gruden continues to be across the group, we are going to know one thing is up.
