Teams Las Vegas Raiders - The Black Hole

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The last time the Raiders had the #1 overall pick, they went 2-14 and lost 10 games by double digits.

This Raiders team is likely on track for just 2 wins and with 4 games left in the season, has lost 8 games by double digits.

There is not anyway it can be spun for anyone to logically suggest AP deserves a second year in charge.
 
The whole game.
Players had AOC on the run, blitzing or just getting through anyway they could.

Did you actually watch the game?
Outside of that early sack in the first quarter, the O Line held up well. A lot of the hurries were due to indecision on behalf of the QB.

The line isn't elite but it's far from the problem.
 
Pierce doesnt have much talent to work with. Itd ve wrong imo to fire him just yet. Another good/better draft or two, a franchise QB, and Pierce would be a good HC. You have to build something (like how Lions did, took a season of growing pains under Campbell then they improved each year and influx of talent via draft).

Cant keep firing and hiring HCs when youre starting a rebuild.
 
Pierce doesnt have much talent to work with. Itd ve wrong imo to fire him just yet. Another good/better draft or two, a franchise QB, and Pierce would be a good HC. You have to build something (like how Lions did, took a season of growing pains under Campbell then they improved each year and influx of talent via draft).

Cant keep firing and hiring HCs when youre starting a rebuild.

I understand the comparison, but consider a few comparison's between Campbell's first season and this year under AP:

  • Campbell's biggest losing streak was 8 games (AP's so far is 9)
  • The Lions lost 6 games that season by double digits (The Raiders this season have lost 8 by double digits with 4 games left)

Campbell also didn't coach scared - his philosophies in term of attacking the game with respect to situational football remain the same now as they were a few years ago when he started. Contrast that with AP who coaches scared, plays not to lose rather than playing to win, and is completely bereft of any game management nous, nor has he shown any improvement in that area over the last 18 months of his tenure as HC.

Campbell was on the right track because the Lions went 3-3 over their final 6 games of the season, whereas it's hard to envisage the Raiders winning another game the rest of the way.

If the Raiders lose out, they will have the #1 pick. This puts them in a position to get a franchise QB in next year's draft. From there, the question needs to be asked whether or not AP is the best man to lead this team given the enormous responsibility of maximising the development of a young QB. This is the same AP who ended up with Luke Getsy as OC, who picked Gardner Minshew over Aidan O'Connell as their starting QB.

The worst case scenario would be to see AP retained and to draft a franchise QB in round 1 only for next year to be as disastrous as this one has been - and then you blow it up, just as Chicago have done this year. Then in year 2 of the rookie QB's career he's already having to learn a 2nd offense. That is not exactly giving the QB the best chance to succeed.
 
I had my doubts about AP as anything other than a Ra Ra type coach. That is not sustainable. I also fear we throw a rookie QB to the wolves season 1. Look at Bryce Young as an example of a rookie coach being chucked in to a bit of a shitshow.
 

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This is how you tank properly.... by actually being shit! Nah, bit seriously, no point in winning at this point.
It’s baffling how you can be so shit, for so long.

The percentages of making the wrong decision at every turn over the course of two decades is infinitesimal.
 
This has not been the season that Raiders owner Mark Davis envisioned.

True, the revenues are flowing thanks to Davis’ financial control of Allegiant Stadium and his team’s value has skyrocketed past the $7 billion mark. Keep in mind the Raiders were valued by Forbes magazine at $1.43 billion a mere decade ago when the one-time mighty NFL franchise played at the Coliseum in Oakland.

But the Raiders have received more attention for Davis selling shares of the franchise to the likes of Tom Brady than for winning games. The Raiders split their first four games, including a headliner win over the Ravens in Baltimore, before losing now ten straight games with Monday’s loss to the Atlanta Falcons.

With the Raiders’ value so high, Davis, in theory, generated more than $1 billion thanks to the sale of those shares of the team.

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