{"id":397735,"date":"2022-07-15T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=397735"},"modified":"2022-07-15T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:06:32","slug":"got-hate-in-their-heart-former-nfl-star-slams-former-raiders-coach-jon-gruden-for-releasing-him-without-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/got-hate-in-their-heart-former-nfl-star-slams-former-raiders-coach-jon-gruden-for-releasing-him-without-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Got Hate in Their Heart&#8221;: Former NFL Star Slams Former Raiders Coach Jon Gruden For Releasing Him Without Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marquette King, a former Raiders punter who recently claimed that he feels that prejudice caused the end of his career as one of the few Black punters in the NFL, claims that when Jon Gruden was appointed as the Raiders&#8217; head coach, King&#8217;s fate was set. Less than three months after the Raiders gave Jon Gruden a 10-year deal, King was cut by the team on March 20th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s release seems to have a lot to do with the Raiders&#8217; new leadership. King signed a three-year, $7 million deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nfl\/nfl-team-detail\/DEN\/depth-chart\">Denver Broncos<\/a> on April 5.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_397739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397739\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-397739\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/8236542-marquette-king-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-oakland-raiders.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders Marquette King\" width=\"850\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/8236542-marquette-king-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-oakland-raiders.jpg 850w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/8236542-marquette-king-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-oakland-raiders-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/8236542-marquette-king-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-oakland-raiders-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-397739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">November 20, 2014; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Raiders punter Marquette King (7) before the game against the Kansas City Chiefs at O.co Coliseum. The Raiders defeated the Chiefs 24-20. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>King, who has openly trained in Arizona since 2019, was said to be on the Arizona Cardinals&#8217; radar during the 2021 offseason. In the end, the Cardinals decided not to sign him. He is now a free agent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"REPORT: NFL Still Short of $14 Billion Than the 2027 Target Revenue Goal\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/report-nfl-still-short-of-14-billion-than-the-2027-target-revenue-goal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">REPORT: NFL Still Short of $14 Billion Than the 2027 Target Revenue Goal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Marquette King opens up on Raiders release<\/h2>\n<p>King claimed that up until Reggie McKenzie, the team&#8217;s general manager at the time, told him that Gruden was letting him go, he believed he was in good standing with the organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marquette King: Jon Gruden cut me without meeting me, I think it was hate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0AjPddBmZS\">https:\/\/t.co\/0AjPddBmZS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProFootballTalk\/status\/1547865793030893569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\" data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cl5l9zajo001401tlbchhh10k@published\" data-editable=\"text\"><em>\u201cI showed up to the facility one morning \u2026 I came with gifts and everything,\u201d<\/em> King said\u00a0in an exclusive interview on the latest episode of Audacy\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"spa-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcasts\/silver-and-black-today-a-las-vegas-raiders-show-47465\">Silver And Black Today &#8211; A Las Vegas Raiders Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\" data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cl5l9zajo001801tlfkelmfuc@published\" data-editable=\"text\"><em>\u201cAs soon as I showed up, Reggie was telling me that Gruden doesn\u2019t want me there. We\u2019re about to let you go, we\u2019re gonna put you on the wire, and it\u2019s gonna hit the news soon&#8230; I don\u2019t know, some people just got hate in their heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqZ5jYirp2Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>King would have appreciated the opportunity to speak with Gruden, but he never had it. At the time, there were rumors to the effect that King&#8217;s personality issues were more of a concern for Gruden than his punting. 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Less than three months after the Raiders gave Jon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":397737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2578,2577],"class_list":["post-397735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-jon-gruden","tag-marquette-king"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}