Jon Gruden 'ashamed' of leaked emails that forced him out of coaching, insists he's a 'good person'

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Jon Gruden signed a 10-year deal worth $100 million to coach the then-Oakland Raiders for a second time. 

After racist and misogynistic emails of his leaked last year, he resigned from Las Vegas in the middle of his fourth season.

Gruden addressed the situation at the Little Rock Touchdown Club in Arkansas on Tuesday.

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Current or former players, along with people in positions of leadership with NFL clubs, have offered differing opinions this week on how pervasive the sorts of racist, homophobic and misogynistic thoughts expressed by Jon Gruden — in emails he wrote from 2011-18, when he was an ESPN analyst between coaching jobs, to then-Washington club executive Bruce Allen — remain around the sport to this day. (AP Photo/John Hefti, File)

"I’m ashamed about what has come about in these emails, and I’ll make no excuses for it. It’s shameful," Gruden said. "But I am a good person. I believe that. I go to church. I’ve been married for 31 years, I got three great boys, I still love football, I’ve made some mistakes, but I don’t think anybody in here hasn’t. And I just ask for forgiveness, and hopefully I get another shot."

Gruden is currently suing the NFL, as he claims the NFL leaked the emails in order to get him out his job. The emails were leaked amid the league's investigation on the Washington Commanders and their workplace culture.

His agent, Bob LaMonte, also feels the league was out to get him.

"I can tell you right now that was a hit job," LaMonte said last month.

"Why now, of all things, does that come out in an investigation that had already gone away?" LaMonte added. "And it was 10 years ago. And