As losses and frustrations mounted for the spiraling Raiders, Mark Davis had no choice but to fire his head coach and general manager. Davis can’t afford to mess up his next hires.
  • Thorlolita@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Going to be a spicy job for someone to take. Still have Adams and Jacobs. Will be able to draft a QB too.

    • CowboyLaw@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Honestly, though: is it really? In the last 20 years, from purely a team management perspective, is there any debate that the Raiders have been one of worst 5 teams in the league? Consistently, for two decades?

      If YOU were an up-and-coming OC or DC on a winning, playoff-competitive team (because that’s, by and large, who is interviewing for HC jobs), would YOU trust your future to this team ownership? Is there literally ANYTHING that this team has consistently done well (again, from a management perspective) that would suggest to you that going there would be a WISE decision for you?

      In the last 20 years, what has been the BEST outcome for ANY Raiders HC, in terms of both on-field and off-field outcomes? Is there ANY former Raiders HC who is currently an HC in the NFL? Currently even an OC/DC?

      Raiders FANS are fantastic. (In general…) They’ve put up with more outright abuse and neglect from their team than just about anyone over the last 20 years. But the C suite of that team is about as radioactive as any franchise in the league, and there’s no reason to think that’s going to change.

  • davisionary1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    To be fair, the raiders have been an embarrassment for 20 years…though this somehow takes the cake honestly.

  • RamDEF7@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    He did the same to the Broncos but at least we got Von Miller, Demaryius Thomas, and Eric Decker out of it.

    • Naly_D@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Number of times a player was lost to a team as the result of a fax mishap:

      Josh McDaniels: 0
      Denver Broncos: 1

      Possibly the only metric McDaniels is ahead of the Broncos on

  • GabryLv@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Same thing as the broncos 2009 and 2010

    Fuck Josh McDaniels it’s unbelievable that he made that same mistakes 12 years after the first stint he had in Denver

    He may have set back the franchise the same way he set the broncos back in 2010

  • horse_renoir13@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If anyone thought McDaniels was going to take a team to the next-level, they might have just been mistaken thinking it was “McDaniel” and just assumed it was the same person.

    • fkn_clownshoes@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      mangled quote from the movie Moneyball: “if we try to play like the Patriots in here, we will lose to the Patriots out there.” And the Patriots fucking suck without Tom Brady, so insult to injury.

      We have a good team, but didn’t have a good coaching staff to take advantage of the ability of our players. instead, they were trying to fit them into a scheme that cuts against the grain. do we have a fast thinking qb like Brady that was an de facto OC? no. we had Jimmy Glass that would say 2+2=5. Do we have a Gronkowski like TE for the offense? no.

      We have a good receiving core that Jimmy couldn’t throw too, a prime rb that the opposing team would zero in on cause we can’t throw and therefor play action isn’t a threat, and a decent defense, mostly thanks to Crosby, that has for the most part prevented blowouts.

      The fkn 49ers, Chiefs, and Eagles coaching staff know how to tailor make the game play/calls according to the players they have. we were trying to play the game of checkers when we have chess pieces.

      I think every Raider fan was fkn bummed by the initial McDaniel hire, and even more bummed to see how everything played out how we thought it would cause ‘maybe we’ll win’ has been our mantra for decades

  • sickostrich244@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    First off the Raiders for like the last 20 years have consistently been dysfunctional… the Derek Carr years brought them up to being a pretty mediocre fringe playoff appearance team at best along with a few bad years but for as bad as a head coach McDaniels is, the Raiders ownership is a big issue as to why they cannot get to being a Super Bowl contender.

    But also yeah, McDaniels is pretty bad and set them back amongst all that talent he was given. The vibes were especially bad and the decisions were very questionable… the Raiders ownership cannot keep repeating these mistakes with their hires, it’s more embarrassing