Is anyone else just genuinely surprised by how bad of a head coach McDaniels was and how much he didn’t learn from his time in Denver? It’s erie how similar his behavior was in Denver and Vegas. Alienating the starting QB (Cutler & Carr), trading popular players (Marshall & Waller), over working the team with long meetings and practices, completely unable to connect with his players, stunning level of arrogance sticking to his ‘system’ instead of doing what his players do best. Reaching in the draft (Tebow & Wilson).
It was a long time between head coaching gigs, but he seemed to learn nothing , didn’t change a thing. You’d think given how his first job went he would naturally grow, reflect and figure out what he had to do differently if given another opportunity. He came back a decade later the exact same dude, I find it shocking.
Even now I’d bet in his mind this was the players or the organization’s failings not his. I’m just shocked by his refusal to grow, change and adapt.
I’m a Cards fan first. The Raiders replaced the Chargers as my second team the year both teams relocated. This is my first head coach hire.
I was so optimistic after that fun as hell year Gruden got fired. Then we hire JMD. What. The. Fuck.
Remember, I’m new to the Raiders, not the AFC West. I vividly remember his year with the Broncos. I was completely and utterly convinced when he got fired that he would never have a head coach job again.
Like he didn’t just fail as a head coach. He failed at everything. And then you look at pretty much any other time a coach from Belichick tree has gotten a shot of head coach. Oh and add the fact that the longer Belichick goes without Brady, the more evident it is that Brady carried that man.
I really cannot even begin to imagine what in the actual fuck Mark Davis was thinking when he thought Josh McDaniels was going to be the man to save this franchise. I just hope he learned something.