Since now it appears that the speculation is that he's going to play on Monday.

As mentioned above, he's been playing the bad cop with AB all pre-season. He's the one that sent the letter (to probably start a paper trail) and the one what got called a cracker and white devil in front of everyone. So he's in all likelihood he's been pushing for them to dump him.

But knowing Gruden, he doesn't want to start the season on Monday without his best offensive player, and since he's the one getting the huge money, he's the one pushing ownership to let him play.

If Mayock is getting undercut before the season proper starts, this doesn't bode well for his future. Shoot, he might be gone before AB.