Vikings fan here, don’t follow the Raiders too closely.
I’ve been reading threads about Josh McDaniels for a while now and most threads are just piling on, not really mentioning specifically why he was a bad coach.
I decided to pull up a post game victory speech on YouTube and he just doesn’t seem that likable of a guy. I think being likable is a big part of being a coach, because players have to want to win for you.
Does that sum up why he was a bad coach? Or is there even more to it than that?
To be fair, the team didn’t underperform that badly this year. If you look at the schedule, the only terrible game was the Bears game. Other than that, they beat the teams they were supposed to beat and lost to the teams they were supposed to lose to.
So what’s the official one-paragraph summary on Josh McDaniels tenure with the Raiders and why he was bad?
He got spoiled with a hall of fame coach and best of all time QB as a glorified offensive analyst. He rode that wave into multiple unsuccessful “real” coaching positions that weren’t managed by Bill. He admits on record he is terrible socially and with people (and this a team of people AND players). He is credited with “knowing football”, but unless you can pair that with the other numerous factors it takes to manage a team you are useless outside of an analyst position. He rode his hype and high into fucking the broncos (not mad) and the Raiders (mad) as a HC.