ALAMEDA — One of Jon Gruden’s favorite offseason hires lost his job last week, and the Raiders coach said Wednesday he fired head strength coach Tom Shaw because of a “personal matter.”
That’s about all he divulged about the renowned strength coach Gruden hired away from Shaw Performance Center when he took the job as Raiders head coach in January.
“Yeah, that’s a personal matter. I’ll just leave it at that,” Gruden said Wednesday. “Tom is a good friend and really good at what he does. It’s a personal matter and unfortunately we are going to have to go in a different direction, and that’s something we are going to have to do when the season is over.