[...]Tice the latest reported candidate – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

[...]Tice the latest reported candidate – Inside the Oakland Raiders – A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group[...]…

Reggie has never been a GM in his life.

Start lowering your expectations so you don’t have to throw yourself out a window.

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Absolutely classic!

i have a suspicion that mark wanted hue gone during the gm hiring process. once mckenzie accepted the offer and came onboard, mark decided that he would have mckenzie fire hue under his watch as gm so as to show that mckenzie was in charge. mckenzie, being the new gm and wanting to appease mark, fired hue as he mentioned in the press conference (putting his name on it as the gm now in charge).

fast forward to today — now that the coaching search is underway, mckenzie is finding that getting someone better than hue is turning out to be more of a tougher task than he originally had anticipated. somehow, his short list (as he mentioned in the press conference) morphed into this massive (just get someone better than hue to save face) list. so, now he’s scrambling to get someone onboard, while playing it cool and portraying that he’s under control.

how does one get to thinking like this? 1. paranoia (if you’ve been a raider fan for any length of time, then this comes with the territory) 2. look at list of interview candidates mentioned thus far. you know the list…

i have a very hard time believing that these candidates would have been high on any gm’s must have list; even for a new gm. then add the possibility that mark may not want to spend competitive money on a real hc and now you have mckenzie in an even tougher spot.
on the surface, it looks as though keeping hue and letting him pick his staff would have been the prudent move for mckenzie in his first year, but only time will tell.

my suspicion may be way way off; i certainly hope so. i hope mckenzie knows exactly what he’s doing and really has that top candidates list he claimed in the press conference and that he’s just being diligent, asking lots of questions during these interviews, and getting information to finally make a big splash soon. let’s hope.

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I wonder if it has something to do with all the big contracts that we have that are going to be hard to get rid of, the lack of depth on the roster, and the fact that we have no draft picks this year.

To me, those are the biggest hurdles this tem has to overcome. Which is why I’m glad McKenzie’s here. Hue Jackson’s heart might have been in the right place, but no way he overcomes it faster than a guy like McKenzie.

I mean, why else would anyone consider the Dolphins over the Raiders, for example? Their owner is a clown, and they have to get past the Patriots and the Jets to get anywhere.

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What ever happened to Mike White after he got canned? Did he go on to work as an OC elsewhere in the league after that? I’d look it up but Wikipedia is on strike.