1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Tuesday “MEMO TO THE RAIDERS”
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“MEMO-MARK DAVIS”
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To: Mark Davis
Fr: Hacksaw
Re: The Black Hole
I’ve seen alot of bad football over my years covering the NFL, as the Voice of the Chargers, the Seahawks, and covering the Cleveland Browns.
But what I saw on Monday Night, the Raiders dismal outing against an equally putrid Atlanta Falcons franchise defies description.
Bad enough the franchise had a (2-11) record. Terrible the siege of injuries that have sidelined what few quality players you had. Awful the holes virtually everywhere in that offensive unit.
But this is more than an isolated bad season.
This is a continued denigration of what was a proud franchise in the 1970s into the 1990s, that has fallen on bad times because of continued bad decisions made by upper level management for a decade plus.
The drafts have been pitiful, from failed DBs, to alcohol troubled receivers and some real bums on defense.
You feel sorry for self-made stars like Maxx Crosby or reliable-dedicated starters like Kolten Miller. It must be culture shock for #1-draft pick TE-Brock Bowers.
Sure losing Christian Wilkens, Mal Koonce and others have wrecked what might have been potential on the defense.
But this is beyond just your injured reserve list.
The Raiders couldn’t wait to run off Derek Carr. You let Josh Jacobs walk to Green Bay. You dealt away Davante Adams.
On Monday night, you subjected a nationwide audience to see your 3rd failing, struggling QB of the year. There is no run game. The pass catchers are not difference makers. The offensive front is weak. The defense is wafer thin in terms of health and depth.
When kicker Daniel Carlson might turn out to be your best offensive player,you can see the sickness everywhere on that roster.
How many coaches, names and no names, are you going to hire-fire-buyout? How many GMs have been in that chair?
The scoreboard does not lie, a franchise that has just 2-winning seasons in 22-years, and that includes miserable years at the end of the Raiders run in Oakland.
You should have heard the Monday Night ESPN-TV crew mocking what the Raiders franchise has become.
The same Raiders franchise that was blocked years ago in attempts to move back into Los Angeles into a new stadium proposed with the Chargers ownership led by Dean Spanos, who screwed the fans in San Diego after 55-years of loyalty to move to LA to be a non-entity in that market despite a great quarterback.
The NFL refused to allow a bad product and a shoddy business operation to sully the league in the #2-market in the country. This had nothing to do with the Raiders fans following. It was your product.
Tough decisions coming. Keep or fire Coach Antonio Pierce? Which QB do you spend your very high first round pick on? Do you give Tom Brady the key to the decision making room when it comes time to fix this sick franchise?
Hate to say this. The colors may be Silver & Black. The fans, sporting colors and paint and costumes show up, stoned, drunk, maybe sober. It is surprising why they spend their hard earned money to support this product.
But it’s the NFL, and everybody makes money, but not everyone can be a Rooney, a Dan Camplbell, a Packers at Lambeau or others successful.
You may think you are successful or well liked. Nobody thinks much of the modern day Raiders under your guidance-leadership or failures.
So here we are, watching your offense compile 101-yards in offense in the 4th quarter. Watching 2-punts get blocked and a point after deflected.. Seeing zero yards rushing. Turnovers, sacks, and boo birds.
Sorry to pile on but this is awful.
Oh one other thing, forget the facade. You are not your father, with the exception of the last name and the all white game days outfits.
Pitiful what you have created and continue to operate, a franchise, it’s success long gone back in the day, now living in a new version of the ‘Black Hole’. Raiders football-in-2024.
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Hacksaw you forgot to mention the hiring of recent Charger’s canned GM Tom Telesco, who proved during the years with the Chargers his complete incompetence in that role.
Where is this guy taking this group of players including numerous Charger rejects? What did Davis see in him and his track record. You’re right it all starts at the top
He drafted two excellent players in Bowers and Powers-Jackson, but those were obvious picks when they fell to him.
Not much confidence in a once great organization