One exec questions if what the Raiders have been doing is right
It has been almost every other year now it feels like the Raiders have had a new regime. Just five years ago, in 2017, Jack Del Rio was the head coach and it was his regime. He had good players. Jon Gruden came in and took those guys out and got "his guys" for the […]
It has been almost every other year now it feels like the Raiders have had a new regime. Just five years ago, in 2017, Jack Del Rio was the head coach and it was his regime. He had good players.
Jon Gruden came in and took those guys out and got "his guys" for the new regime. That didn't last but three and a half years. Now it's the McDaniels regime, and it's been torn down again in an attempt to give McDaniels "his guys" only they got rid of some of the team's best players.
That's an issue and always has been for me. But, I'm not the only one that thinks that. There are other NFL executives around the league that feel the same way.
“The Raiders have been building for so long, tearing it down with each new regime,” an exec said in The Athletics Executive Reacts story. “This is a team that had Derek Carr and Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper. Jon Gruden came in and wanted his guys. Josh McDaniels came in and wants his guys. Maybe they should have a coach who can work with the guys they’ve got. Now, Darren Waller is gone, too.”
It's hard to consistently win when you are constantly changing things, and to me, that falls on the front office. It's too late now, but since McDaniels has made all of the moves he has made, I'd like to see him stick it through till he does get his guys, just so we can see what happens when they really get a chance to do that.
The fan base is tired of it too. They haven't won a playoff game in over 21 years, and haven't had a coach be with the team longer than three full seasons since Jon Gruden's first stint which ended in 2001. This franchise needs some consistency.
