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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Episode 107: Jon Gruden and Race!

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode deals with Friday's Wall Street Journal article on Jon Gruden.  I talk about what I feel is a massive overreaction.  Gruden at 58 is now all of a sudden a racist? How come his body of work isn't being looked at?  How come no former, or current player as of today has come out to say Gruden is a racist?   Lord knows we have a lot of problems in this country relating to race, but was Gruden's comments about De Maurice Smith racist?  I certainly don't think so! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now, Grand Napier! always good to have you here if you you don't like that, really appreciate your support.

0:24.1

Got a lot that I'm going to talk about on today's podcast, and John Gruden is center

0:29.2

stage and everything that is going on from the story that was published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

0:35.0

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1:01.7

dot com here were the headlines when I woke up yesterday on the internet.

1:05.8

E.S. Vegas Raiders players react to John Gruden's 2011 emails as coach apologizes

1:11.9

again. Yahoo Sports, the NFL is intertwined in the John Gruden racism controversy

1:17.2

and it can't just walk away.

1:19.4

Deadspin.

1:20.4

John Gruden is the perfect example of how mediocre white men get to thrive in the workplace.

1:26.0

Sports Illustrated, the Jaguars and Raiders hired coaches they saw as saviors.

1:31.0

Now they're stuck. I'm sure you've heard the story by now in the Wall Street Journal,

1:38.8

a email from 2011 that was revealed in this story in which John Gruden was quoted as saying

1:47.2

this, Dumouress Smith has lips the size of Michelin Tires, talking about the Morris Smith, the executive director of the

1:56.3

NFL Players Association. At the time, John Gruden was with ESPN-F-N-F-L during that time, not that it matters.

2:06.6

John Gruden apologized, said he was really sorry.

2:09.9

He said that he had been angry at the time because of the lockout and did not trust the direction of the players led by Demore Smith.

2:19.2

He said in the past he has referred to people, he believes to be lying as rubber lips.

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