it’s clear that the NFL had it out for him, wanted him gone, and intentionally tried to take him down.
- The league has access to these emails as part of their investigation of Washington, so any leak would be from the league itself.
- The emails weren’t shared with some random sports/NFL reporter, but directly with the WSJ and then the NYT, which seems more intentional and like an attempt to give Gruden no wiggle room.
- On Sunday it appeared that Gruden was going to survive the WSJ account that surfaced on Friday, and the very next day a second wave of more damaging emails shows up in the NYT.
I was a bit surprised to hear national people go out of their way to make these observations.