Jeff Fisher Discusses Rams’ Decision to Draft Michael Sam After Jon Gruden Emails

Old Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titans and St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams head coach Jeff Fisher defined he never drafted a player in step with sexual orientation after frail Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden acknowledged the NFL impressed him to preserve out so.

Fisher launched a assertion and acknowledged “the NFL never impressed or dejected me regarding the sequence of a likely prospect.”

Fisher modified into the pinnacle coach of the Rams when they selected Michael Sam with a seventh-round contain within the 2014 NFL draft.

Sam had publicly near out as overjoyed sooner than the draft.

Half of a close document from the Novel York Cases‘ Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman regarding Gruden’s employ of racist, anti-overjoyed and misogynistic language in emails from 2011 to 2018 printed the frail coach, who has since resigned, suggested NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell forced Fisher to draft Sam.

Gruden veteran anti-overjoyed language to explain Sam and Goodell.

The emails additionally printed he exchanged emails with pictures of topless ladies with frail Washington Soccer Workers president Bruce Allen, complained about ladies working as referees and didn’t like when gamers protested systemic racism and police brutality by kneeling in some unspecified time in the future of the national anthem.

Out of doors of the Novel York Cases document, Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal reported Gruden veteran a racist trope when discussing NFL Gamers Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who is Dusky.

As for Sam, he never seemed in a sport on the NFL stage.

Alternatively, he modified into the SEC Defensive Participant of the Year and a consensus All-American in 2013 with the Missouri Tigers when he tallied 10 sacks.

Fisher modified into the pinnacle coach of the Rams from 2012 to 2016 and achieved with a 31-45-1 file.