I do it in Madden. You do it in Madden. We’d do it if we got the real job to whatever extent we’d be able. The problem with the Raiders, though, is we’ve changed head coaches every 2.6 years since 1960.
We are pretty much in constant rebuild for chunks of years at a time.
Why are we in this fervent denial that we aren’t in a rebuild and that we don’t need a rebuild?
“I do it in Madden.”
stopped reading right there.
You think Dennis Allen and Josh and del Rio deserved more time?
Del Rio? Without a doubt, but that’s not why he was fired LOL. He was fired due to a combination of losing the locker room and Mark knowing he could get Gruden.
And Todd Downing. IIRC, he basically lied to Davis and told him they needed to promote Downing to OC because he was a hot name and was going to be poached (he wasn’t, at all) and so they fired Musgrave, a guy that took the last ranked O and turned them into a top 10 unit in just 2 seasons, and replaced him with Downing…and you know how the rest goes.
Yeah but the way I view it is that he should and would have had the opportunity to fix that mistake had he not lost the locker room
I feel like the problem is more like that we are never in a rebuild, except for Gruden’s start. And even then we kept the QB. Which other coach traded away several stars for first round picks? Usually every new coach tries to win with the roster someone else build and gets that one big name signing, that gets us excited and wins us 6-7 games. It’s always “The team is not that bad, we can compete now” even if we suck for twenty years. Then we hit a ceiling because we didn’t do the proper rebuild and shortly after the coach gets fired again.
If Gruden hit on some first round picks, this could have been a Super Bowl team by 2021. But we are too impatient to try it again. The obsession with “competing now” leads to us never making the steps to get competitive in the future.
Why are we in this fervent denial that we aren’t in a rebuild and that we don’t need a rebuild?
Because the results say we aren’t in denial. From 2013-2022, we never won the division, we made the playoffs twice, won zero playoff games, and drafted poorly for the most part.