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The teams coached by brothers Jon and Jay Gruden were both eligible to be drafted to serve as this year’s subject of . Before the Raiders received the short straw Gabe Jackson Jersey , Jay jokingly tried to nudge the obligation toward Jon’s team. And for good reason. While serving as the offensive coordinator in Cincinnati, Jay Gruden witnessed the extra burden of on a head coach.“Coach [Marvin] Lewis handled all of the editing and all that stuff,” Jay Gruden told reporters on Monday. “I think it’s probably a lot on the plate for a head coach to be able to handle that because you don’t want to put anything out there that could be a negative light on [what] a player said in a coaching staff meeting or whatever. So, you’ve got to actually make sure you go through and watch the edits, what’s going to be out there. I think it’ll be a great show. I’m sure Jon will handle that, but it’s not easy for them to, you know, handle all that stuff.”So apart from the distraction that comes from having the NFL Films cameras and microphones constantly present, the head coach — who is primarily focused on getting his team ready for Week One — has to spend time watching the proposed content of each episode and decide whether it will present the team, and the coach, in the best possible light. Last year, former Browns coach Hue Jackson learned that lesson the hard way. He thought the debut-episode back and forth with former Browns offensive coordinator Todd Haley would make Jackson look good and Haley look bad. And that backfired on Jackson, badly.While Jon Gruden developed during his time in TV a good sense of what does and doesn’t work, there’s still an ever-present risk that he’ll guess wrong. It won’t take much to create a problem, especially with fans and media scrutinizing every scene of every episode for any hint of dysfunction or drama that can become a talking point the following morning, and beyond.Jay Gruden doesn’t have to worry about that; he can simply focus on getting his team ready. Jon, as he prepares for a season that will include a game in Winnipeg, a game in London Rodney Hudson Jersey , an extended absence from Oakland, and regular-season games against the likes of the Chiefs twice, the Chargers twice, the Broncos twice, the Bears, the Packers, the Vikings, the Texans, the Jaguars, the Colts, and the Titans, he’ll have to add to that burden the weekly obligation of ensuring that nothing in makes a hard-knocks season even harder. Regardless of how things got to where they are regarding the Antonio Brown helmet issue (we’ll go through the timeline on Monday’s and then I’ll write something up that points out every key development of the past week), the Raiders have drawn their line in the sand: Brown, as G.M. Mike Mayock said Monday, needs to be all in or all out.So what happens if he refuses to be all in?The Raiders could cut Brown, but they’d owe him more than $30 million over the next two years, offset by whatever else he’d earn with a different team. As mentioned when the issue first surfaced, at a time when Brown was still away from the team Hunter Renfrow Oakland Raiders Jersey , the Raiders’ nuclear option consists of sending a five-day letter to Brown. If he doesn’t come back within five days, they can place him on the reserve/left squad list and shut him down for the year. At that point, he wouldn’t be able to play for the Raiders or for anyone else, and the Raiders wouldn’t have to pay him.And if he shows up and misbehaves, the Raiders would have the same options under the labor deal that would be available for any other players who break the rules: Fines and suspensions, with the ultimate ability (after properly documenting the situation and giving him all appropriate warnings) to suspend him four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the team, which would also wipe out his guaranteed money for 2020.The question is whether they want to deal with that while otherwise trying to build a team that is competitive in a difficult division with a challenging schedule. They could, in theory, try to trade him, but who would want to step into the shoes of that $30 million liability at a time when Brown is, rightly or wrongly, pissed off at the league and anyone connected to it?If Brown responds in the desired way to Mayock’s bad-cop quote and if coach Jon Gruden can smooth things over with a good-cop vibe, maybe they can still turn this thing around. For now, that’s what they’re surely hoping to do. But if Brown makes it clear that he’s , the Raiders will have to make a decision that they’d rather not have to make.For Brown, the obvious right decision is this: Pick a helmet and show up for work. He’s got more than $30 million riding on it. In the end, it comes down to whether he cares about that or not.