Check Your Halloween Candy for the 2022 Raiders
The 2022 Oakland Raiders signed Josh McDaniels to be their head coach. It is only halfway through his first season, but I think most of us can feel secure in our determination that this was a poor decision. It was a bad decision at the time, and it looks even worse now, after a disgusting loss to the stumbling drunk Saints led by the corpse of Andy Dalton. It wasn’t just a loss, it was an embarrassment. The Raiders didn’t even cross midfield till late in the 4th quarter. a 24-0 blowout to a team with at the time, 2 wins and a defense that had yet to give up less than 20 points in a game, coached by a guy they once fired.
It’s hard to remember that just a year ago this same Raiders team, in fact arguably a worse Raiders team with a lamer roster, made the playoffs. Despite hiring a guy who tore Denver to shreds and then left Indianapolis at the altar the Raiders should have upgraded. They got Davante Adams! Chandler Jones! Surely this team could at least be a nuisance. In their first few weeks, they put up some fights despite falling down, and then they entered the “easy part” of the schedule. Texans, Saints, Jags, Colts, Broncos. They did in fact beat the Texans, arguably the worst team in football, and then got shellshocked by SAY IT AGAIN: Andy Dalton.
McDaniels hired two other Patriots brotherhood members, Mick Lombardi (nepotism yay!) and Patrick Graham (actually decent). It makes you really wonder what this team could have done if they just kept Rich Bisaccia. Rich got the job very suddenly last year after the Gruden scandal and he did a pretty good job making everyone forget it. Maybe the team wanted to move on from all remnants of that regime, but I think Bisaccia deserved a chance. Instead, they did the Tobias Funke “did this work for other people? No, but it might work for us” meme and hired a guy pretty much everyone thought was bad. Not even Patriots fans liked him by the time he left. Josh McDaniels has never achieved anything without the greatest QB of all time running his offense for him.
The Raiders can probably squeak out a few more wins, and might even creep close to .500 by the season’s end, but by most measures, this has been a disappointment.
Passing on Bisaccia, McDaniels is the coach the Raiders deserve.
Chargers fan, totally not biased. Our Bi-week is the only time of the football year I look forward to.
I got downvoted to oblivion on Reddit by Raiders fans high on copium when I mercylessly mocked them for thinking that McDaniels was the HC they needed for a deep playoff run…
And yet, it doesnt even seem all that satisfying that he turned out to be exactly “Ye olde Broncos Josh McDaniels” that I expected him to be, probably because it was just so damn obvious this was gona go tits up in no time. If anything, and considering what he did to Denver back then, hes somewhat behind schedule in tearing down the Raiders and setting the team back 5 years or more but still, that team had actual potential…
should have kept Bisaccia in the first place.
Is that supposd to be a Steelers reference with the kids costume? Cause I’m gonna pretend that’s the case regardless
Yinzers get their wish and Tomlin is fired. So is McDaniels, who the Steelers hire. Then my Texans hire Tomlin and we emerge from the dark ages.
I assumed it was, too. If Dave comes in and tells us that’s not a Steeler Bee then I’ll shift my assumption to Blind Melon bee.
Maybe it’s just a regular bee ever think of that smart guys
“I’m da bee, like, from nature.”
-Strong Bad
That’s just crazy talk.
We are all so used to little references in your comic’s that I fully expected that to be a Steelers reference until it wasn’t.
What do you mean until it wasn’t? Dave never actually said it was a regular bee. He only said that *maybe* it’s just a regular bee.
Alternate punchline: Bronco’s in primetime
yes
FUCKING GENUS
I found A Matt Canida run Offence in a Hershey Always check your kid’s candy Dave. PS why don’t you have kids?
Dave is that the steelers bee?
I miss McDaniels as an OC on the Pats.
Mainly because Matt Patricia seems to be the replacement and the O-Line is particular seem to be struggling with his changes.
Stevenson got 84 yards after contact on a 74 yard rushing day and Jones is getting beat up.
Matt Patricia wears a pencil on his ear even though his play sheet is laminated.
Patricia has done a lot better than I expected, but that’s mainly due to the fact that I expected him to be the worst OC in football and instead the Patriots are just fairly below average (22nd in Offense DVOA% right now I think).
They at least look competent against bad defenses but when they face a team that’s half decent at getting stops, lol.
Bisaccia was not a good coach, he just looked good coming after Gruden.
I think we can at least agree that he’s better than McDaniels
I was afraid she’d find lifetime tickets to Thursday Night Football.
Love that you said “Oakland Raiders”
Nice to shade Vegas like that.
This is reusable in so many ways:
– any team
– refs
– Goodell
– any owner
– any coach/QB
– thursday night football
– monday night football
– concussion protocol
The list goes on
I think there’s like 2-3 offensive playcallers that aren’t criticized by the team’s fans.
Old Andy Dalton looks like the bear guy from True Grit. Do with this what you will.
“Josh McDaniels has never achieved anything without the greatest QB of all time running his offense for him.”
When did Josh McDaniels coach Trent Dilfer?
Bisaccia was the better option. But Josh McDaniels’ fuck ups make me genuinely happy.