Las Vegas Raiders proprietor Mark Davis hired Jon Gruden arsenic caput manager successful 2018, locking him with a monolithic 10-year declaration with the assurance that bringing Gruden backmost would bring stableness and occurrence to the organization.
Instead, Gruden would beryllium forced to resign years aboriginal implicit an email scandal – a series of events that Davis believes mostly acceptable the enactment back.
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Speaking to the media connected Monday, Davis praised the additions of caller caput coach Pete Carroll and caller wide manager John Spytek. However, helium besides praised the team’s caller "infrastructure," which includes Tom Brady arsenic a number owner.
"Bringing in Tom Brady was bringing successful idiosyncratic that was connected the shot broadside that I had been lacking having present astatine the organization," Davis said.
"Back successful 2018 with Jon Gruden, helium was idiosyncratic that I brought successful and truly expected to beryllium that idiosyncratic connected the shot broadside that would bring stableness to the organization. He had a 10-year declaration and each that – and his caput was chopped off."
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Gruden, who is presently suing the NFL, resigned aft leaked emails sent by the erstwhile caput manager included racist, misogynistic and homophobic remarks directed astatine NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, among others.
Davis said that Gruden’s resignation successful 2021 triggered a bid of turnovers successful the organization.
"We were enactment successful a truly atrocious presumption arsenic an organization. And we tried to get it close with Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler – that didn’t enactment out. Antonio Pierce was fixed the interim occupation and I judge the occupation that helium did arsenic an interim manager warranted him earning the occupation arsenic caput manager of the Raiders… We conscionable felt that it was clip for a change."
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Davis said Monday that helium believes Brady fills the void near down by Gruden and that the caller unit brought successful volition person the lasting effect helium had hoped for successful 2018.
"We privation to physique thing here. That’s been the process and mindset each along. Like I said, that got offset oregon benignant of blown up erstwhile Jon Gruden was sent away. So, we’ve been trying to get it close since then. We’ll see, but I’ve got patience to get it right."
Carroll takes implicit arsenic the team’s 14th caput manager since Gruden was traded to Tampa Bay successful 2002. He is the 5th coach, including those successful an interim role, since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas successful 2020.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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