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Many questions remain regarding the 650,000 emails from which a handful were leaked in recent days, ending the coaching career of Jon Gruden and creating at a minimum discomfort for NFL general counsel Jeff Pash. One of the questions now has an answer. Where did the 650,000 emails come from? Per the NFL, they were [more] … [Read more...] about NFL: The 650,000 emails were sent to and from Bruce Allen on his WFT team account

While investigating the Washington Football Team’s workplace issues, attorney Beth Wilkinson stumbled over enough to get her to gather more than 650,000 emails that, per the league, were sent by or to former team president Bruce Allen and that fell beyond the scope of the investigation. For some reason (still not disclosed by the league), [more] … [Read more...] about Investigation of Washington Football Team didn’t include text messages

The Raiders are adding a veteran cornerback to the roster. Agent Doug Hendrickson announced that his client Desmond Trufant has signed with Las Vegas. Trufant signed with the Saints in September after being cut by the Bears out of training camp. He had three tackles and a pass defensed in two games before being released [more] … [Read more...] about Raiders signing Desmond Trufant

The Texans are signing center Jimmy Morrissey from the Raiders’ practice squad, Aaron Wilson of Sports Talk 790 reports. The Texans had a need at the position with starter Justin Britt sidelined with a knee injury. Justin McCray is the other center on the roster, and he started Sunday against the Colts. The Raiders selected [more] … [Read more...] about Texans signing Jimmy Morrissey off Raiders’ practice squad

Rich Bisaccia coached in a lot of NFL games over the last 20 years, but none of them was like Sunday’s game in Denver. Bisaccia was the head coach of the Raiders rather than the special teams coordinator and he was leading his team into their first game since head coach Jon Gruden resigned in [more] … [Read more...] about Rich Bisaccia: Consistency will be the challenge for Raiders going forward

The decision of the NFL to keep the outcome of the Washington Football Team investigation secret benefited many people whose behavior deserves to be exposed. It perhaps has benefited none more than former WFT president Bruce Allen. When the league first made it clear that nothing would be disclosed, owner Daniel Snyder got the brunt [more] … [Read more...] about Amy Trask “repeatedly” reported Bruce Allen to Al Davis

For the season’s first five weeks, Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater had successfully avoided giveaways. He didn’t have any when Denver beat the Giants, Jaguars, and Jets to open their season. He didn’t have one in the first half of the Broncos loss to Baltimore in Week Four, though he missed the second half of that [more] … [Read more...] about Teddy Bridgewater: I point the thumb at myself after losing to Raiders

The passage of time often takes the steam out of a story. It shouldn’t, but it does. Already, I find myself wondering whether and to what extent posting additional stories about the ongoing Gruden/WFT situation will prompt complaints from readers who have grown bored with the story, or who realize that the NFL will never [more] … [Read more...] about NFL’s reasoning for secrecy in WFT investigation does not apply to the 650,000 emails

After a tumultuous week, the Raiders went to Colorado and crushed the Broncos 34-24 on Sunday. The final score wasn’t quite indicative of how badly Las Vegas took it to Denver, as the Broncos added a cosmetic touchdown with just over a minute left in the contest. But one thing the Broncos couldn’t do was [more] … [Read more...] about Maxx Crosby: We’ve been rushing well, but we consistently got to the QB against the Broncos