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.
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
Did Raiders fans at any point think McDaniels was going to be a great coach?
No.
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