Plenty of names have emerged in the 11 days since the coaching carousel started to spin on high speed. One has yet to surface.<\/p>\n
In July, Jon Gruden said he\u2019s \u201cworking hard to maybe get one more shot<\/a>\u201d at coaching. If any of the eight teams with current vacancies are interested in Gruden, they\u2019re keeping things very quiet.<\/p>\n Gruden last coached in 2021. He resigned after someone made multiple (apparently strategic) leaks of inappropriate emails sent while he worked at ESPN. He quickly sued the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell for engineering his ouster.<\/p>\n Gruden\u2019s lawsuit has been successful, so far. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that year that his case is not required to be resolved by the NFL\u2019s secret, rigged, kangaroo court of arbitration. That will only continue to make him persona non grata at 345 Park Avenue. Indeed, the NFL still omits the episode<\/a> featuring the 2002 Buccaneers (and Gruden) from its annual July 4 America\u2019s Game marathon.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s the real question. Will a team do business with a coach with whom the NFL desires to do no business whatsoever? As one source explained it within the past year to PFT, the emails themselves are not believed to be an impediment to Gruden\u2019s ability to resume coaching. The roadblock, if any, is the lawsuit.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the fact that Gruden, now 62, has a regular-season record of 117-112, only five games above .500. Since winning the Super Bowl in 2002, Gruden has two one-and-done playoff appearances. (Interim coach Rich Bisaccia led the 2021 Raiders to the playoffs after Gruden stepped down, exiting in the wild-card round against the Bengals.)<\/p>\n The question, all things considered, is whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Even without the complication created by his lawsuit (which shouldn\u2019t be an issue, but will be), does a team think Gruden can recapture the magic from years gone by?<\/p>\n Given that he\u2019s currently unattached to any NFL team, every team with a vacancy is free to talk to him, formally or informally, publicly or privately. If anyone currently is, no one is talking about it.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s the bottom line. With 25 percent of the NFL\u2019s head-coaching jobs still open, this seems to be Gruden\u2019s last, best shot at getting another job.<\/p>\n The most nagging question for some is whether the Raiders would do it. If so, it would be a call made by owner Mark Davis, possibly over the objection of Tom Brady \u2014 especially since it was Gruden (according to Davis) who objected to signing Brady<\/a> when he became a free agent in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of names have emerged in the 11 days since the coaching carousel started to spin on high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-409573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}