Jon Gruden’s Emails: What Happens Next in Vegas and WFT Implications

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Last Friday, a 2011 email from Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden containing racist language surfaced in reporting by the Wall Street Journal. Gruden apologized in his postgame press conference following the Raiders loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday. But by Monday, additional reporting uncovered many more of Gruden’s emails containing sexist, racist, and homophobic remarks, sent in correspondence to various NFL higher-ups and decision makers. Gruden resigned as head coach within the hour. ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez joins us to discuss the Raiders reaction to Gruden’s comments, where the team goes from here, and the ripple effects around the NFL. Then, former Washington Football Team employee Emily Applegate shares her perspective on the NFL’s investigation into Washington’s toxic culture: the league's investigation is what led to Gruden’s emails being revealed, some which were messages to then Washington executive Bruce Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think what's important now is for us to understand that John Gruden is not unique.
0:08.0	John Gruden's a powerful decision maker.
0:11.0	There are a lot of other powerful decision makers who harbor the same views as John Gruden.
0:16.0	So I hope that this is an opportunity for a lot of people to do some soul searching, and not just white people, everybody, everyone do some soul searching about the way that you feel and the way that
0:24.4	it influences the things that you do.
0:27.0	That is our own Dominique Foxworth, seeing the bigger picture with the leaked emails that took
0:32.7	down John Gruden, ESPN's former Monday Night Football announcer and one of the richest and most famous
0:38.7	head coaches in the NFL.
0:41.4	And as the words Gruden wrote, racist, homophobic, misogynistic as they are, rattle the
0:47.1	consciences and inboxes of America, Raiders beatwriter Paul Gutierrez gives us the view
0:52.9	from Las Vegas.
0:54.7	And then Emily Applegate, a former employee of the Washington football team,
0:58.6	tells us about the investigation that started all of this.
1:02.3	An investigation whose real results we may never see.
1:07.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, October 13th.
1:12.5	This is ESPN Daily.
1:18.5	Paul Gutierrez, where are you at this moment, man?
1:21.8	Hey, Pablo, yeah. I am actually in the Raiders media workroom,
1:25.2	you know, trying to get as much work done as possible,
1:27.7	trying to keep track of everything that's been going on. And it's, it's been a whirlwind,
1:31.6	you know, especially when you consider that eight days ago, this was a team that was riding
1:35.6	high, three and no, getting ready to play on Monday night football. And there were whispers of
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