The one factor worse than Josh McDaniels being a confirmed loser on the helm of a staff is that he’s additionally a identified cheater.
But the Las Vegas Raiders regarded the opposite method and employed him anyway.
That’s why it’s not possible to really feel dangerous for the Raiders and their 0-2 begin to the season following their epic collapse to the Arizona Cardinals in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The Raiders’ 29-23 time beyond regulation loss represented the biggest blown lead — 20 factors — in franchise historical past.
One way or the other, the Raiders led, 23-7, going into the fourth quarter. However they have been outscored 22-0 within the fourth and time beyond regulation.
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The Playing cards outscored the Raiders, 16-0 within the fourth. They gained the sport on a 59-yard fumble return in OT.
For certain, Hunter Renfrow’s fumble sealed the Raiders’ destiny.
Nonetheless, the blame for this debacle has to go on McDaniels.
Up 23-7 with 12:24 left, the Raiders ought to have been working the ball. As an alternative, McDaniels had Derek Carr throw the ball. A mistake.
In OT, after the Raiders acquired the ball again, they simply wanted a discipline purpose to win. In Cardinals’ territory, Las Vegas simply wanted a couple of extra yards to kick a cushty discipline purpose to win. As an alternative, McDaniels went to throwing once more, twice to Renfrow. He fumbled it each instances. The second fumble was recovered by the Playing cards. Ballgame.
Some coaches could be fired after such a malpractice. Not McDaniels. The Raiders nonetheless assume he’s the neatest man within the room. Sadly, McDaniels has lived off the plate of Invoice Belichick. One way or the other, dumb homeowners proceed to present McDaniels credit score for fulfillment in New England.
And why anybody would rent a coach from the Belichick teaching tree is not sensible. The path of failures is a mile lengthy, together with Joe Choose, Charlie Weiss, and Matt Patricia.
Shockingly, the Raiders made a training rent mistake. They did it with Jon Gruden, signing him to a ridiculous 10-year, $100 million contract. That reign blew up when it was uncovered that Gruden’s emails whereas with ESPN have been stuffed with hate speak about anybody who wasn’t a white male in an influence place.
The stuff was vile.
And regardless of the bombshell publicity which led to Gruden resigning, the Raiders bounced again.
Below interim coach Wealthy Bisaccia, they turned their season round, going 10-7. They gained their final 4 video games and made the playoffs.
Nonetheless, Davis wasn’t impressed and felt like he wanted an enormous title coach. Enter McDaniels.
Most thought he would have by no means gotten one other probability when he pulled out of the Indianapolis Colts job on the final minute in 2018, after initially accepting the deal.
For many, it will have been a demise knell. Not for Teflon Josh. In his first head teaching gig, he was fired. Not for transferring up within the draft to get the awful Tim Tebow within the first spherical. He wasn’t issued a pink slip as a result of the Broncos (11-17) couldn’t win and reeked throughout his tenure.
The large cause was that McDaniels was caught dishonest, recording the 49ers’ walkthrough in London earlier than a recreation. He was fined $50,000 by the NFL.
The place have we seen this film earlier than? Oh yeah, Belichick acquired the most important high quality for a coach within the league for Spygate. Sure, the fruit doesn’t fall removed from the tree.
That ought to have been it for McDaniels. That repute ought to have made him unhireable. Who would need somebody so dishonest to run their franchise, soil the staff’s standing within the league?
Yep, the Raiders.
They deserve one another.
It’s been a very long time because the late, nice Al Davis was on the highest of his recreation as proprietor and the Raiders have been, certainly, all about simply profitable, child.
The present Raiders simply can’t get it proper and are all the time tripping over their very own ft.
The final time the Raiders gained a Tremendous Bowl was 1984, nearly 40 years in the past.
And after watching McDaniels’ Raiders the primary two video games out of the gate within the desert, it doesn’t appear like they’re any nearer this season.
Raiders’ followers can attempt to persuade themselves issues will get higher, not worse.
However an excellent measuring stick is that the Kansas Chiefs dropped a simple 44 on the Cardinals. But, Arizona beat the Raiders at their very own crib. Vegas, by some means, got here into the sport as the favourite. It’d take a season or two earlier than the Raiders notice they employed McFraud, not McDaniels.
