Gruden's emails, an impending NFL legal disaster & 3 teams we're worried about

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows the headline by now. On Monday evening, after a plethora of disgusting & offensive emails were leaked, first by the Wall Street Journal, and later by the New York Times, Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden abruptly resigned, likely never to hold a significant position in or around the NFL ever again.

Charles Robinson is joined by NBC's Michael Smith to discuss the aftermath of this seismic blow to one of the league's most storied franchises and iconic coaches. A few questions still linger: if the Raiders received these emails on Friday, why was this information sat on until the Times leaked it? What league figures could be implicated in future leaks?

Charles & Michael discuss those issues as well as one more: why the NFL should be scared about how these email leaks may play into its ongoing legal troubles in St. Louis & Oakland after the Rams & Raiders respectively left town.

Later in the show, the guys talk about ESPN adding a wild card game to their Monday Night Football slate & Michael's unhealthy Madden obsession.

In the second half, Charles & Michael break down the three teams they're worried about most in the NFL & as well as the one NFC team every other squad should be afraid of in January. (41:35)

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0:00.0	The National Football League is going to court.
0:06.3	This isn't exactly breaking news.
0:08.1	We've known since early September that the NFL had tried every available avenue to get
0:12.8	a lawsuit tossed out that centered on the Rams relocation to Los Angeles.
0:18.5	Despite millions of dollars in billable hours and the very best white shoe attorneys that
0:22.2	money can buy, the NFL failed to cut down what is now the league's most serious legal battle
0:27.5	since losing an anti-trust suit brought by the USFL in 1986.
0:32.0	Now, I'm going to tie what happened this week with John Groen's emails in the Washington
0:36.3	Football team investigation into this.
0:38.7	There's a reason I think these two things will spill the same kind of blood and the same kind of
0:43.2	mud, but with totally different outcomes.
0:46.3	But first, just a quick point about the Rams relocation suit.
0:50.0	The historically famous ruling awarded to the USFL in that anti-trust suit back in 1986
0:55.6	was effectively nothing. $3.76 in damages largely because a jury believed the USFL and Donald
1:02.4	Trump did far more damage to itself than the NFL actually did. But this Rams relocation
1:08.8	litigation isn't heading in that kind of financial direction. Damages in this case that the
1:13.2	city of St. Louis wins isn't likely to be $3.76. It's more likely to be $376 million if not more.
1:22.0	And that's why there's been no end of legal jousting and foot dragging by the NFL's attorneys
1:26.4	over the last month during a discovery process that has involved pinning down the net worth of
1:31.2	five owners who are most influential in the Rams relocation. Among them, obviously the Rams
1:37.2	stand crunchy, but also the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones, the New England Patriots robber craft,
1:42.5	the New York Giants John Mara, and the Kansas City Chiefs Clark Hunt.
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