We are now just a week since the first email was leaked that ultimately led to Jon Gruden being forced to resign. It’s fair to say Gruden made a few mistakes when he decided to send these emails. The first one people seemed to be willing to forgive. The onslaught of equally heinous leaked emails that followed made the first one less like a whoopsie and more like a disturbing trend.
Those revelations of Gruden’s true opinions laid bare was more than enough to end his tenure with the Raiders. But if we’re being honest, his performance in the personnel department should have been enough as well.
His personnel mishaps had piled up to the point where no other coach in the NFL could have survived it. But Gruden did because of Mark Davis’s seemingly endless faith in the once highly-regarded NFL coach.
Honestly, the hardest thing about putting together this list was narrowing it to just ten. So, let’s just go with the top ten. We’ll start at ten and count down.