So last week, the NFL
officially appealed, the decision from May
that denied, the League's effort to force, the Jon Gruden
lawsuit, in the arbitration, where everything is better for
the NFL, it's secret and it's rigged. It is
the NFL always wants any claims against it to be in the NFL's
arbitration system, because it's far more likely to win.
And the rest of us are far more likely to not find out anything
about it. So
that was step one, step two,
The judge presiding over the case yesterday. This report
came courtesy of Daniel. Kaplan of the athletic.
The judge refused to stay the litigation while the appeal of
the decision,
to deny the effort to force arbitration goes forward. So
now, the NFL is in a pickle
because the litigation goes forward, that means Jon, Gruden
can start asking for documents.
Start asking for information, can start asking
For dates for depositions of people like, oh, I don't know
the commissioner
or I don't know.
Commanders owner, Daniel Snyder who's team owned the server
that received the emails that ended up coming in and being
harvested and giving the league and then leaked to the media
and that's Gruden's whole argument.
You leak these to the media to bring me down.
Where you may start the process Peter of finding out who
ordered the code red against Jon Gruden? If anyone in fact
did sooner rather than later unless the NFL can pull a legal
rabbit
out of his hat or some other orifice, they're going to have
to start cooperating with this litigation, which means we're
going to start finding out some facts that are going to
be potentially very interesting.
I figured it'd be great to find out those facts.
I think that the end game of this story is
did the NFL
release
these documents in order to impugn the character and
ultimately get Jon Gruden fired?
I still say what I've said all along, Mike,
It makes zero sense to me
that the NFL would leak that about a coach of a team in
a market that they desperately needed to do well
now, who knows.
I can't, I don't, I don't know what happened. None of us know
what happened. I have my suspicions about how it came
out, but I don't know anything.
And so, to me, I think, the most interesting part of this,
at least to me,
is that The NFL has always wanted things like this to
State out of a public court and instead they want all of them
to be in private where no dirty laundry ever gets out. And
that's why you see people like Jon Gruden
and that's why you see you know the case in Miami. Now why
these so many lawyers, you know, for you know,
Or the for the complainants.
So many lawyers. Want this in a public court because they want
the dirty laundry to be aired.
And you're also more likely to get a favorable result through
the public court system. Let me say this and then we have to
break,
I've reported this and I know this to be true, it's a very
small Universe of people who had access to those emails. Dan
Snyder is one of those individuals necessarily. It was
his server that he owns that had those emails on it.
There are people who believe that Snider leaked, the emails
and to thread the popcorn through last week's reporting
from ESPN, what better way to get people worried about
the dirt that Snyder may have on someone. On and what he would
be willing to
do with it then to use Gruden as a warning shot at a time
when the NFL is thinking about possibly trying to take out
Daniel Snyder.
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