I'm not going to
say anything but honest things here. I'm ashamed about what has
come about in these emails and I'll make no
excuses for it is
it's shameful but
I am a good person. I believe that I'm I go to church. I've
been married for 31 years. You got three great boys.
I still love football. I've made some mistakes
but I don't think anybody else
in here hasn't and I just asked for Forgiveness. And hopefully
I get another shot.
And I get I get choked up, you know, because
there's a lot of misunderstanding out there
right now. What's your read? What you hear? What you watch
on TV? Hell, I worked at ESPN for nine years. I worked hard
at that job. I don't even want to watch the channel anymore
because I don't believe everything is true.
And I know a lot of it is is just
trying to get people to watch,
but I think we got to get back to reality
and that's why I look forward to Saturday's because you're
going to get what you deserve. When the whistle blows and
we'll see if the Razorbacks can
get after Cincinnati, which I hope they do.
That is just such an odd context. Jon Gruden, speaking
at the Little Rock touchdown club for some reason and
presumably for some money
and Chris Defiance from Gruden
a nobody out, you know, he has a,
I could see coach Gruden coming out there, nobody else in this
room.
Can say they haven't made a mistake and I don't know how
I feel about. Well, I do know how I feel about. I
I'm a good person because I go to church and I've been married
31 years Heaven. If I manage to get there and I'm betting,
the under for now, is going to be a lot more crowded than
I thought. If all you have to do
is go to church to get in
Yes and claim to people, you don't even have to go to
church. You have to say, I go to church, we haven't seen his
attendance record. Hey, I'm a good person. I go to church,
that's not the most self-aware. Comment, that a guy like Jon
Gruden could make no, no, definitely not. You know again,
I'm not going
to sit here and say this is a bad guy. I'm not
as he, you know, his judgment often times, can he be too
judgmental and get then hot-headed about those kind of
subjects that can lead him down a path of
There you go. Whoa,
I wouldn't say that.
I wouldn't write that. I wouldn't say that. In fact, you
should erase that from even thinking that that's not good.
Yeah, sure. He's had some moments of that. There's no
doubt about it and he's going to pay for it. And,
you know, again,
it's I don't want to sit here and be the judge or the jury.
And I've seen, I've been around Jon Gruden and seeing a lot of
good, there's no doubt about that. But but at the same time,
I think for the line, he crossed
and the language that he did use
in the emails and then Then you know, we hear that there's more
emails out there a little bit. You know, last week from from
the NFL a little bit in the court filing where
I read lightly, well yeah, saying Jon Gruden tread
lightly? Because that's right. The last time we talked about
it
they claim to have more. Exactly was the Raiders so that
that to and then they'll okay, you know, yeah, good person but
good enough person to be a guy that's going to lead
a franchise and be the face of
that franchise and do that. I think that time has come and gone.
Sorry, you know the NFL yeah. Sue the NFL and Roger Goodell,
right? You sued them. We saw what happened to Colin
Kaepernick
and it's wrong but that's the way the sausage gets made.
There's too many
viable candidates to be head coaches of the NFL's. 32,
franchises for Gruden to be on the short list ever again.
Without even getting to
the fact that he didn't get to the playoffs with the Raiders,
the fact that he was
ultimately in control of a roster
that resulted in the Draft picks. We talked about earlier
from Cleveland pharaoh to Henry rugs today, man. Arnett to Alex
Leatherwood. 17th overall, pick. Just last April and now
gone that's on Gruden's resume to, he's not getting back into
the in no way
and look, Chris, I mean, bottom line, we got to take a break
but the bottom line is this, you know,
I've met Gruden, I've interviewed him a couple of
times. I know he doesn't like me because I call it, like it
is and I'm Not Too Faced. His biggest problem is, he is
ridiculously two-faced you've told the stories in the past,
Past. He has one way he'll act to you to your face.
He has another way who act behind your back.
You know how he'll say, one thing here, he'll say something
else there so I can't believe anything. The guy says, right
because he put on his Jon Gruden, public face yesterday
because he wants back in,
we don't know what he's saying, privately, but we know he's got
a history of saying one thing here. And another thing he
would that, yeah, there's no doubt, it's how I can't defend
that for sure. There's a part of him. That is so real,
and it's awesome.
But then there's a part that, yes,
Yes, as you said, I think the number first off like we've
always talked about. He got fired from the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers and won a Super Bowl them. You didn't hear one guy.
There's go. Wow, I can't believe we just fired our Super
Bowl winning head, coach nobody
so that that had trickled through the building as far as
figuring out. Some of the things we've talked about,
definitely. Yeah. You know, saying one thing in the meeting
room coming out and seeing a guy and saying totally
different to that guy. What you
were saying everybody else in the meeting room,
you know. Yeah, players are going to realize that
and that said that
That is tough to overcome and a locker room when you're not
real like that all the time.
That's where we get into,
you know, some of these
Shanahan mcveigh's
they have a way of communicating realness about
an even Sean, Payton Bill Belichick their own ways. John
Harbaugh, Andy Reid might not always be nice. Mine always not
be the thing you wanted to hear as a player
but you know, exactly where the hell you stand.
And I think that was a lot of the players issues with Jon
Gruden at times. And you add this on top of It. Yeah, I do
I'm with you. I don't think there's any way he gets back in
the NFL.
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