I've been around a lot of.
New regimes and
all that kind of stuff. Right. And I think the frustrating
part is it takes time
to get everyone on the same page
and once you get on the same page, you get thing rolling and
it's turning, and it's looks great, and it's awesome.
And we're just, we're right there,
but close doesn't count in this game and so
frustrating it is frustrating. I'm human, you know, going
through that again,
like sand
where we were, and we got a new regime. Stuff, but I believe in
it, you know,
I believe in Josh, I believe in our staff,
believe in our players,
get some good football players. We got good, we do some good
things. We just didn't do enough good things today and,
you know,
it sucks.
What our record is. We've on that,
but I just keep reinforcing that we have a good thing. I've
been on some teams that aren't as good as this one. And we're
doing the right things
just they made more plays in us at the end.
Hey Derek, you shouldn't worry about accepting the new regime.
You need to be worried at some point about them accepting you.
I mean I'm not trying to be an ass here
but the way that he's
expressing himself it's like you know, I'm still getting
used to these new guys. They're still getting used to you. And
if this thing goes completely off the rails and they're in
position to draft a franchise quarterback and they've got
a device in your contract where they
can pull the plug and say, see you later, which is how his
latest extension was crafted.
That's on the table
as this thing goes off the
And it's not like, they're getting blown out. It's not
like you're getting embarrassed and there's no team out there
that's getting embarrassed every single week. There really
isn't.
You know, even the Texans before they had gotten their
first win. They weren't getting blown out in the Raiders are in
these games. They yeah, it's a work in progress
and it's a shame when they have a win
in hand
and they blow it up 17 and they blow it chance to win late and
they blow it and you just have to process it and move on. But
you know, remember before the season we said Chris.
Look at the early seasons. Stretch for the Raiders. We're
going to learn a lot about how quickly they can adapt to this
new regime because they have tough games right out of
the gates. And so far, they've managed to win only one of top
games, top
floss last night. You know, blew the lead to the Cardinals,
with Kyler Murray, making some unbelievable players. They're
certainly, you know, they are, they are closed, they do have
a favorite, they got the bye week, this week, they got
a favorable schedule off after that, to kind of maybe
get back in the swing of things, the Texans, the Saints,
the Jaguars, the Colts, the Broncos, the So they're not out
of this by any stretch of the imagination and they're not,
there's a lot of good things they're doing.
They are, you know, they're not a super talented football team
and my you know the one thing you keep hearing me talk about
it. And listen I like the what Derek Cars playing good? It's
not easy. He's learning a new system that you know we've
talked about it's
got a lot of you know it's a totally different way than
anything he's been programmed before to handle on
the offensive side of the ball but the one thing I'll continue to
lean on a little bit, is just a back to that
you know, I know everybody looks at the The Raiders and
go. Well, they made the playoffs last year they should
be a playoff team again.
The know it doesn't necessarily work like that. I know they got
Davante Adams. They want to play a totally different style
than Jon Gruden and Gus, Bradley defensive coordinators
to style of football. They do not have guys in there
that really work for their scheme yet. So there's got to
be a little bit of patience there to you. Saw last night,
Jon Gruden, wanted to be three receivers one, tight end, and
throw the ball. All game,
you know Josh McDaniels want
Be New England. He wants to run the ball dominate. The line of
scrimmage Run play action pass, be aggressive off the drop back
pass game, do that and then their defense is built on.
We want to be big and have big people up front and and have
a real shutdown cover corner and they got a defense of small
guys who shoot gaps and we play zones because that's how they
but way they were built
the last few years. So they need a little time.
That was a really
a phenomenal game plan. Last night by the Raiders, it really
was on both sides of the football. And you know, there's
the Chiefs, that's why the damnedest things ever. They're
the damnedest things ever, the Chiefs,
I mean, they were really outplayed outcoached out. A hit
in the football game and there we were going there down 17,
nothing and they just got it out. And then all of a sudden
were there in the fourth quarter and you're going
man they're controlling the football game
you know they were they were outplayed out, hit out coach
everything and they just still hang in there. And I think
that's the amazing thing. So I guess I'm sales saying there's
light at the end of the tunnel for the Raiders
but it's just never easy to out the Chiefs. Their
Eva below the resilient
and they thrive on the big moment in the big play and they
just never die there. They're really amazing to watch
one. Really the
Phantom call on Chris Jones sparked that s***. Did you're
right commentary about that in the locker room and
the chiefs of that basketball team that is inevitably going
to go on an 18-2 to run.
Look, there's this is the she's a challenge for Josh.
McDaniels. Yeah, went into by yeah, hit the reset button.
Forget about what our record is. We got a long
way to go. We got 12 games left, we just got to focus on
the next one. And the next one, and the next one because
when 14 becomes 2 and 4 becomes 3 and 4, if they just went to
in a row, exactly, right. It's a different vibe, it's
a different feeling. There's always that team that's around
500
at Thanksgiving,
that finds a way to keep it going. So the urgency that
comes out of this and this is that this is part of the scale
of coaching. How do you motivate your guys based upon?
Whatever it is that happened. How do you motivate him if you
win?
How do you motivate him? If you lose, how do you motivate him
if you lose by one point, had a motive interview. If they lose
by 50 points,
what do you do to get them to move on to the next task? And
they have, they may have to move on to the next task,
without Davante. Adams depending upon with the league
office does, but either way, that they have shown that
they're good enough to win football games.
They just have to
have to win more than one
out of every five. No, no. And it's exactly right. But I think
we're, you know, again we've seen positives and, you know
this
Schedule, like you said, it was tough early on.
I wouldn't be shocked if we sat here a month from now on when
hey look at the Raiders therefore and for their five
and four, they've rebounded,
I would not be shocked, you know? Again it's a lot of
things they're getting used to their
in Las Vegas right now and it's not necessarily that easy and
you like you said it is tough schedule for sure. So
the seasons not over and with that extra set, you know 17th game,
it does change the dynamic of being down. One in four
are being one in four.
Doesn't seem as desperate.
So I'm not counting them out yet. I'm not. Certainly not
an especially with the way they looked last night. Again,
that's a special football team, they're good,
they're really good. They're on a mission
Mahomes is playing really good football
and I'll now to the Tyreke effect conversation. I wish
Maja, you know there there was a few times last night where
I did go whoo
you know, the Raiders got away with playing some man-to-man
coverage. I think about as much man-to-man coverage in early in
the game where Blitz
Singing and playing man-to-man to where I go.
I don't know if they could do all that if Tyree kills their,
I don't know if they could do that. Might have been something
that to look out for for in the future here about What teams do
with the, with the Kansas City Chiefs,
maybe there is going to be an element of a little less fear
of playing man-to-man. Maybe the Raiders kind of crack that
code last last night. I'm going to be interesting to see
because there was a lot of plays Mike where it was
man-to-man and they look like they had an extra guy or two in
the middle
kind of going. We're Looking for Kelsey or a krauser
or hey, your man-to-man on Kelsey, you got him on the if
he breaks outside, I got a got him if he comes in here and
then there was nobody else to scare them and get open down
the field, that way to
just something to look out for that. That certainly jumped out
to me last night because, you know, again, we watch that
game. There wasn't many deep shots down the football field
for the Kansas City Chiefs, and that's different. Watching
them, play this style of football
and his reality five games in post Tyree kill. This is when
enough film is accumulates, right? To really do a deep dive
and Scout and what works, and what doesn't, and it's
incumbent on the Chiefs to self Scout themselves
and stay ahead of whatever the bills may be picking up. That's
the big game that's coming Sunday
but what an afternoon bills Chiefs into
cowboys at Eagles. And one last point on the Raiders,
I think 10 and 7 is realistic looking at the rest of their
schedule because there's only three games left where I say,
they're probably screwed and one of them is the Rams and who
knows about that one. Because
when the And the Raiders go back to LA, that's another home
game. So
maybe there's only two more games where I say they're
possibly screwed. And that's the last two games, the year
both at home, 49ers in Chief's, all the other games are
winnable. And anytime is that every game is winnable,
my point is
you're looking at saying this is a game they could win and
maybe should win. And may be based upon what we seen through
five weeks, even though the one in four, maybe they will win
a lot of
these games and pull their way back into