Teams Las Vegas Raiders - The Black Hole

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With Carr suffering a high ankle sprain and a sprained MCL against the Dolphins, per Scott Bair of CSN Bay Area, the regime could be going on its sixth starting quarterback in less than three seasons if Matt Schaub gets the start after the bye week. Given all the change and the importance of the position, it’s inexplicable that Allen would put Carr at risk of a more serious injury by failing to call a timeout when he was clearly hurt after a scramble in the third quarter.

Carr had to hop to the sideline on one leg before the training staff decided to attend to him. Allen should have called the timeout and run on the field himself to help Carr if the training staff was too incompetent to do the job. The fact that no one on the entire team felt the need to help Carr off the field probably says something about the culture Allen created in the locker room.

It was an inexcusable mistake on a day of inexcusable mistakes in the midst of three seasons of inexcusable mistakes. A 15-yard gain down 31-7 meant exponentially less than the health of the player the team hopes is a franchise quarterback.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...age-to-oakland-raiders-by-firing-dennis-allen

This disgusted me and stil does. I've never seen a coach not call a timeout when a player is clearly injured. I've never seen a training staff not rush onto the field when a player is clearly injured. FCK DA, FCK REGGIE, FCK MARK. Raider Nation deserves better than this. Glad that Carr showed he was tough by calling a play and completing a pass while he was hurt. Also loved the fact that Carr got into Olson face after consistent bs play calling.

I wonder if the media outcry would be anything like when Shanarat made RG3 play hurt and RG3 ended up tearing his ACL as a result.

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Allen said after the game that he’s not worried about losing his job and expects to remain the head coach.

He doesn't even care if he's fired. That's bad. Usually people worry and try harder when they care or afraid. He knows his days are numbered and is just cashing his checks, biding his time till he gets the word he can get the hell out and work somewhere else.
 
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GG said:
Happened multiple times in the game too....

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We had two of the WRs marking each other. It's a new formation. They just failed the assignments and it cost us. We need to work on it more. :p
 
GG said:
Jay glazer just reported Allen has been fired
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NFL.COM too - http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...iders-fire-dennis-allen-after-twoplus-seasons

Raiders fire Dennis Allen after two-plus seasons

Dennis Allen's doomed tenure with the Oakland Raiders has come to its predictable end. The only surprise is that he lasted this long.

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Monday, per a source informed of the situation, that the Raiders fired the head coach over the phone. Oakland fell to 0-4 on Sunday after another embarrassing loss, this time a 38-14 bludgeoning at the hands of the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London. Fox Sports' Jay Glazer first reported the news.

Hired prior to the 2012 season, Allen was 8-28 in his two seasons and four games into the 2014 campaign. Rapoport reported that offensive line coach Tony Sparano and senior offensive assistant Al Saunders are options to take over for Allen.

Oakland had lost nine straight games dating back to the 2013 season before Sunday's contest with Miami. Rapoport reported it would take a meltdown against the Dolphins for Raiders' management to terminate Allen after four weeks, but Sunday's lopsided contest reached that level.

It's always hard to understand a mid-season firing, especially so early in the campaign. Is Allen an appreciably worse coach than a month ago? The writing has been on the wall in Oakland regarding Allen's future for a while. Raiders owner Mark Davis stressed this offseason that general manager Reggie McKenzie is "the one guy I hired" and fully supported him.

"He's Reggie's guy. Reggie is my guy," Davis told the San Francisco Chronicle in February. "The coaches, they're all signed. Dennis Allen has every coach that he wanted."

McKenzie has struggled to put together a reasonable depth chart since taking the job in 2012. He inherited an awful roster, but his drafts and reckless mismanagement of the quarterback position haven't helped. We believed Allen did a decent job coaching up one of the worst defensive rosters of our lifetime. Allen went 4-12 in each of his first two seasons with three-win talent. No one would have saved this mess.

By firing Allen now, the Raiders will theoretically get a head start on their next permanent hire. If Mark Davis is anything like his father, the choice will be difficult to predict. We wonder if McKenzie will still be around to see it.
 
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Jay glazer just reported Allen has been fired
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Yup, Jay Glazer and Allen are very close. The source of Glazer's info was DA, no doubt.

As for candidates, they're going after a big name. Like Rapoport has alluded to already, Jon Gruden is high on Mark Davis' wish list.

As for the interim spot, Fallon Smith reported an hour or so ago that it won't be Tony Sparano. If that's the case, it'll be either Olson or Saunders.

EDIT: Just been told by someone close to the situation that Sparano is still in the mix for the interim HC job, that Reggie McKenzie is pulling for him. Sounds like this decision is going to be up to Mark at the end of the day.
 
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According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Raiders' first look for their new head coach will be Jon Gruden.

Gruden, the former Raiders head coach and current Monday Night Football color analyst, has been connected to a homecoming ever since leaving the Bucs in 2008. It's obvious he'd be the first choice for close friend and owner Mark Davis. However, there's a lot of doubt if this is the right time for Gruden to go back to Oakland. GM Reggie McKenzie has put together the worst teams in the NFL by trading for guys like Matt Flynn/Matt Schaub, drafting guys like D.J. Hayden/Menelik Watson and blowing cap space on washed-up veterans like Maurice Jones-Drew. No coach could make it work with this roster.
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In all honesty....

The real way out of the Raiders black hole is.....

Larry Ellison buys team....these days, the NFL and 95% of its owners are all big corporate self-made billionaires from other industries. Proven success, know how to create it, and who to hire. They draw the biggest names in the front office, football operations, media, etc.

Ellison owning Raiders in LA....where he could turn the gasping Raiders into a
behemoth in the NFL, bigger than Dallas and Washington in terms of pull, dollars, and place the west coast in the upper echelons of NFL powerbrokers (currently it's all the east coast boys club of Kraft, Mara, Rooney, etc).

Ellision would hire a top-notch CEO, VP, Pres of Football Operations, etc. Who would then all hire the very best, brightest up-coming front office guy at some other org to be the GM (like the Rams new GM).

Then that guy would scour the coaching ranks, hire the very best prospect, who would build a coaching staff. And then you'd see this incarnation of the LA Raiders within 2 years become a force in the NFL.....off and on the field.

However, there's a sense of nostalgia with guys like me, old timers, and seeing the mom and pop franchise Raiders, who stood apart from the NFL, seeing us stay that way (like the Bengals with the Brown family...or like the Packers as a small region/entity) and staying in Oakland, and in the Davis family, with Gruden, and the entire tradition of the Raiders and our greats remaining family......and see that become a force.....rather than see it sold off, move to LA, start changing uniforms, etc, and losing that "raider family" thing.
 
It's all bandaids on a gaping wound.

Madden and Wolf fobbing McKenzie onto a green Mark Davis. And Reggie building the terrible and rookie staff that he did. The org floundered even more. On and off the field.

Now for Davis to hire Gruden as HC, would be another bandaid similar to what happened with McKenzie.

Really....for genuine success, and the "greatness of the Raiders lies in its future"....the path is Larry Ellison owner, Los Angeles Raiders. Moving forward. Becoming a genuine power broker in the NFL.
 
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