"But she did make it easy for us this week, with a big, anecdote-rich ESPN story, written with ESPN Raiders reporter Ryan McFadden, on the unusually complicated, surprisingly novel, extremely predictable carnage in the Las Vegas Raiders front office, and sideline, and owner's suite, and I guess also in the offensive line meeting room. Just having to do with the Raiders in general. I suppose one could just write "it is a story about the Raiders" here, in retrospect."
"While we did discuss some other NFL stuff in the back half of the show, we could have done an entire episode on what this story reveals about Tom Brady's weird part-time job as a co-owner and not-quite-team-president with the Raiders and how that job has and hasn't evolved, how it fits within the broader Mark Davis Experience and why the league's goofiest and least-wealthy owner wanted it in the first place, and the bizarre results it has delivered."
The Las Vegas Raiders front office, sideline, owner’s suite, and offensive-line meeting room experienced unusually complicated, novel, and predictably destructive carnage. Tom Brady holds a part-time co-owner and not-quite-team-president role that produced strange personnel preferences and influence over quarterback decisions. Mark Davis’s ownership style and motivations for empowering Brady contributed to internal instability. The team attempted an expensive, ill-fated pairing of offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and head coach Pete Carroll that collapsed into anarchy and abandonment. Reported quarterback preferences included criticisms of Sam Darnold and ideas about desirable traits that did not always align with on-field reality.
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