Las Vegas raiders The owner Mark Davis hired Jon Gruden as a head coach in 2018, the lock with a massive 10-year contract with the confidence that Gruden would bring stability and success to the organization.
Instead, Gruden would be forced to resign for years later E-mail scandal – A sequence of events which, according to Davis, have largely made the organization go back.
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The head coach of Las Vegas Raiders, Jon Gruden, on the left, speaks to the owner of the Mark Davis team before the raiders play the Los Angeles Rams at the Sofi stadium on August 21, 2021. (Robert Hanashiro-Usa today Sports)
Addressing the media on Monday, Davis praised the addition of the new head coach Pete Carroll And the new managing director John Spytek. However, he also praised the team’s new “infrastructure”, which includes Tom Brady as owner of the minority.
“Bringing Tom Brady Had someone who was from football that I failed to have the organization here, “said Davis.
“In 2018 with Jon Gruden, he was someone I brought and really expected to be this football person who would bring stability to the organization. He had a 10 -year contract and all this – and His head was chopped disabled. ”
Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, on the left, spoke with owner Mark Davis before the Denver Broncos match in Oakland Coliseum on December 24, 2018. (Kelley L COX-USA TODAY SPORTS)
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Gruden, who is currently pursuing the NFL, resigned after disclosed emails sent by the former head coach included racist, misogynous and homophobic remarks directed against the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, and the executive director of the NFL Players Association, Demaurice Smith ,, among others.
Davis said that Gruden’s resignation in 2021 had sparked a series of reversals in the organization.
“We were put in a very bad position as an organization. And we tried to do things well with Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler – It didn’t work. Antonio Pierce received temporary work and I believe that The work he did as a temporary coach justified him to win the coach’s position of the raiders … We just felt that it was time to change.
Las Vegas Raiders coach Pete Carroll speaks at a press conference at the Intermountain Health Performance Center on January 27, 2025. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
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Davis said on Monday that he thought Brady fills the vacuum left by Gruden and that the new staff will have the lasting effect he hoped for in 2018.
“We want to build something here. This is the process and the state of mind from the start. As I said, it was offset or in a way exploded when Jon Gruden was returned. So we, we Let’s try to get it since then.
Carroll took over as a 14th team coach since Gruden was exchanged in Tampa Bay in 2002. He was the fifth coach, including those in an interim role, since the raiders moved to Las Vegas in 2020.
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