Jon Gruden signed a 10-year, $100 million deal to return to the Oakland Raiders, but he wants to make it known he's not actually making that much money.

Way back in January, when the terms were reportedly agreed to, ESPN's Adam Schefter revealed it's the longest coaching contract in NFL history and stated it's "worth about $100 million." After the news broke, the next steps were essentially getting Gruden onboard and rolling right along with the Raiders. The only talk about his contract came from the media or fans who were stunned to hear the massive number.

While Gruden is almost certainly the highest-paid coach in the NFL (contracts aren't made public), he used a reference to his dislike of Tom Cruise movies to explain the contract. Or, "explain" the contract, is probably a better way to put it since the interview with Pro Football Talk's Peter King didn't actually clear anything up.

“I’m not making $100 million, just so you know. Well, I never thought Tom Cruise, never thought his movies were any good but he’s making plenty of money. There’s a lot of things that I don’t understand. No disrespect to Tom Cruise. I’m sure he’s a great actor. But you know what? You just go about your life as hard as you can. You try to find something you love and you do the best you can at it. I never got into coaching for the money. I got into coaching because I wanted to be a quarterback coach. What the salary cap has become, what free agency has become—it’s amazing.”

I have no idea what Tom Cruise movies have to do with Gruden's contract size. Obviously, Cruise makes a ton of money (the Mission Impossible series may never end), but it seems like Gruden just wants to have people stop with the $100 million talk.

He may mean the contract actually isn't worth that much money, or that there's some level of incentives which are a bit outlandish. On the flip side, maybe the deal is actually worth that much money but Gruden is simply not expecting to be coaching the Raiders for 10 years. No one outside of the Raiders organization will probably ever know the actual structure of his deal, aside from Mark Davis, Gruden, and his family.

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Regardless of how you look at it, the coach is making an absurd amount of money. And as Gruden decided to point out, Cruise is also making a whole lot of money. I'm apparently being snubbed, considering I make nowhere near $100 million.