Raiders are rolling with an interim Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, a 4th round rookie QB, and still hanging in there with top tier teams.
They have shown a lot of progress since Mcdaniels was fired, but we have to assume they are still using a majority of his playbook.
The losses haven’t been blow outs, and actually look competitive since AP has taken over.
I get the negativity, but just look at it realistically for a second. I’m not 100% sold on AOC at QB, but he still is making progress. I’m all for drafting a QB in the 1st round and letting them battle it out for the starting spot.
Just my thoughts. When the Chiefs tied it up 14-14 at halftime, I knew it was going to be a struggle to win the game. They’re SB champs with a generational QB and HoF HC. At least it wasn’t a completely embarrassing loss. (Like the Bears game.)
That’s the thing…they aren’t using the majority of JMD’s playbook. Hardagree scrapped most of it and started fresh, because McDaniels playbook obviously wasn’t working
What I think a lot of fans don’t get is our rookie OC and our rookie QB are working from a limited, newish playbook, and the entire team wasn’t even able to practice these plays in OTAs
Which makes it all the more miraculous and impressive that Pierce and co. are able to be so competitive under this new regime. They hung in there with Miami and KC and are doing so with a very bare bones playbook.