Final Walk of Shame Thread
Once again, Mark Davis engineered a terrible season, and maybe the worst in franchise history. The goal today is to lose, nothing less, to chase a draft pick and put that pick in the same hands that have fumbled so many picks over the years.
Failing to understand that the team was in need of a full rebuild, and listening to yet more "advisors" without a clear leadership structure, Mark Davis brought in a short-term veteran coach and drafted another skill player early while assembling a roster that was doomed to fail and thus wasting both the coach's and top pick's talents, creating an untenable situation that will result in more chaos but likely no lessons learned because the owner has neither the shame nor skill to right the ship that he steered into the rocks.
But hey, high draft pick incoming, so it's all good. GO (LOSE) RAIDERS. Not another penny.
posted by Raider Take at 12:55 PM
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Giants just gifted Raiders with #1 pick by beating Cowboys.
Raiders need to curb stomp the Chiefs and give back to the fans
The Raiders failures have been so enduring, Mark Davis has reduced us to rooting against them. That was unfathomable a few years ago. Now it's an annual ritual at the end of the season.
And while I don't entirely blame Carroll for 2025, he was way out past his skis thinking he could win games for the Raiders with his schemes. And for that reason, he deserves to get fired... and he better take Brennan Carroll with him.
The Raiders now have Mendoza at their disposal, and #1 slot in every round of the draft. They also have Crosby, Bowers, Jeanty, JPJ, Miller, and a few other players worthy of resetting this franchise.
So why am I still nervous?
They still have Mark Davis!
Either Pete was a terrible hire because he wasn't up for this particular job, or this particular job made a decent coach terrible. Either way, it's on the Raiders.
Mendoza or not, hard to believe that we'll be getting the pick of the litter with our next head coaching hire. Within 10 months, this job has ruined the legacy of a highly respected veteran coach. Any Ben Johnson types out there ready to risk their own prospects by joining Las Vegas?
Take, I think both can be true. I feel like I've been saying both things since he was hired. Pete wasn't entirely up for the job and the Raiders weren't up for making it work. The guy came out of retirement after being put out to pasture. A kind of bizarre repeat of the Gruden years but this time Carroll was on the clock... whereas Gruden clearly wasn't.
We had visions of grandeur. Then it tanked in a way nobody could imagine.
If by some miracle Carroll is not fired, we might be doing this again next year.
Time to fire Pete Carroll and stop the bleeding.
Peeling away all the layers of decision making in the Raiders org (for which there are many cooks), I believe Mark Davis may have hired Pete Carroll to avoid exactly what Pete Carroll gave him, the worst season in Raiders history. Sure, maybe the Raiders were already headed in that direction, but Carroll clearly gave them a push off the cliff.
Yesterday the Raiders managed to break a 10-game losing streak in what media are calling the NFL's ugliest game of the season. Thankfully, I sparred myself from that misery. Instead, I enjoyed watching the Giants beat the Cowboys and saw the kind of moxie from Jaxson Dart that the Raiders hope to find. As Nate said, the Giants gifted the Raiders the #1 pick.
I feel much better (more relaxed) now that the season is over and the Raiders have the coveted #1 pick. So much can be done with the #1 pick (in every round) and ample cap space the Raiders will carry into 2026. They have resources abound.
So here we are, once again. Seven wins in two years, left with dreams that can only happen during the off-season, e.g., that the Raiders will somehow figure it out. But they never do. Thanks to Mark Davis, the Raiders have become synonymous with bad footfall teams.
Hopefully, the next step forward starts today. Fire Carroll and his band of bad coaches who spent this past season misreading everything they oversaw. Time for Pete to retire, again, and take ZBS and Cover 3 with him.
BREAKING NEWS!!! RAIDERS HAVE FIRED PETE CARROLL!!!
YES, YES, YES! Mark Davis announced that Spytek and Brady will conduct the coaching search. I think it should just be Spytek. I don't trust Brady.
My Top 5 HC coaching candidates:
1. Joe Brady (OC, Bills)
2. Chris Shula (DC, Rams)
3. Klint Kubiak (OC, Seahawks) but I doubt he will be willing to
4. Mike LeFleur (OC, Rams)
5. Jon Gruden. I'd love if Mark Davis just gave the League the middle finger and hired Gruden back; it would be the most Raiders move he'd make as an owner.
That is not dealing with rumors either. Rumors like John Harbaugh may be fired in Baltimore. Or there is still rumors of the Steelers letting Tomlin go, based on what they do in the playoffs. But HC is not all we need.
Top 5 OC Candidates:
1. Kevin Stefanski (Fired HC of Browns). I think he'd be solid with Joe Brady or Chris Shula as HC, and he would also take the title of Assistant HC.
2. Brian Callahan (Fired HC of Titans). I think this would work if Klint Kubiak becomes HC.
3. Mike McDaniel (if fired by Miami).
4. Brian Daboll (fired HC of Giants). He failed as a HC, but was an above average OC.
5. David Shaw (Pass Game Coordinator, Lions)
I'd love to see Patrick Graham get an opportunity to be the HC, he's one of the smartest people in football. I'm not sure we'd be able to retain him otherwise. So I think we may be looking for a DC and ST Coordinators as well. I don't know very many DC or ST Candidates, but Marcus Freeman (HC, Notre Dame) would be the most intriguing DC Candidate. Raheem Morris hasn't panned out as a HC in two stints, but he would be an awesome DC as well. If Jonathan Gannon gets let go in Arizona, he'd be a good DC candidate.
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