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Xramfan wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 10:23 am He had to go but I’m getting pretty fcking sick of firing coaches every fcking year.

BradyTek need to find a solid hire and let him cook for a few years. This shit has to change

I want Brady all the way out of coaching and personnel decisions. Why can't we ever f'ing ever, just ever have a normal GM who does GM things? There's always gotta be some wrinkle like Grudock, AP getting hired before the GM, and now we have Tawm Bwrady throwing gummed-up dogshit into the gears.

Let the GM be a GM, the admins be admins, the scouts be scouts, the coaches be coaches, and the players be players.

Are you sure it's "normal" for a GM to hire the coach entirely on his own without some kind of collaborative process? My guess is that it is not. Personally I have no problem at all with Brady's involvement, as long as he isn't forcing something that Spytek doesn't really like.

Brady ended up whiffing but those reported as his top choices in Ben johnson and Matthew Stafford look pretty dang good. Maybe he can help deliver this time. I still think the Brady and Spytek combo is our best shot (brady representing typical owner onvolvement) with Davis out of football decision making completelym

Oh lord this franchise is a complete cluster f[raiders_icon]ck.

Lets start all over again for the millionth time in 25 years....so glad that this team has become nothing to me compared to what it was 20 years ago.

So who's the f[raiders_icon]cking coach going to be this time?

and f[raiders_icon]ck tom brady. ex players are very rarely any good at running football organizations. just because they won playing doesn't translate into knowing how the f[raiders_icon]ck to manage everything.

ELCAraiderfan wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:01 pm Oh lord this franchise is a complete cluster fck.

Lets start all over again for the millionth time in 25 years....so glad that this team has become nothing to me compared to what it was 20 years ago.

So who's the fcking coach going to be this time?

and fck tom brady. ex players are very rarely any good at running football organizations. just because they won playing doesn't translate into knowing how the fck to manage everything.

it also doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to run things...

He's been a huge part of a winning organization and has seen what is necessary to achieve that level of success, it's not crazy to assume he knows what he is doing.

chucker wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 2:37 pm Letting those good players get away last year might work out for us..... One more win and we'd still be in QB hell. And we got some comp picks and we have lots of cap space. This year we may as well spend cap because our FA class isn't going to reap any comp pick rewards.

Its unknown if Pete let them get away or they wanted to go elsewhere.
I was good letting Moehrig walk for that money and signing Chinn.

riseNraid09 wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:08 pm it also doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to run things...

He's been a huge part of a winning organization and has seen what is necessary to achieve that level of success, it's not crazy to assume he knows what he is doing.

yeah michael jordon and magic johnson proved that theory so well. The only former player I think of who did exceptional job in the front office was Ozzie Newsome.

chucker wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 2:56 pm Are you sure it's "normal" for a GM to hire the coach entirely on his own without some kind of collaborative process? My guess is that it is not. Personally I have no problem at all with Brady's involvement, as long as he isn't forcing something that Spytek doesn't really like.

as long as they hire coaches that fit Mendoza's strengths
If they hire a west coast guy ill shoot something.

chucker wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 2:37 pm Letting those good players get away last year might work out for us..... One more win and we'd still be in QB hell. And we got some comp picks and we have lots of cap space. This year we may as well spend cap because our FA class isn't going to reap any comp pick rewards.

Worked out extremely well, but the admission that we didn’t properly evaluate our own guys isn’t great news.

ELCAraiderfan wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:42 pm yeah michael jordon and magic johnson proved that theory so well. The only former player I think of who did exceptional job in the front office was Ozzie Newsome.

The other side is Brady has been in the league a long time and has access to people that maybe wouldn't look our way otherwise

We need to stop giving Brady the benefit of the doubt that he knows how to build a f[raiders_icon]cking team at the moment. His presence didnt do jack shit for us last year.

That being said, if he commits 100% of his time to fixing the Raiders, I'm willing to give him a shot. But the half ass shit aint gonna work. This franchise needs too much work and deserves full effort from everyone, esp from the guy calling the shots.

Mckdaddy wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:47 pm The other side is Brady has been in the league a long time and has access to people that maybe wouldn't look our way otherwise

that was so great, glad brady was here or some other team might have landed Chip Kelly

ELCAraiderfan wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:49 pm that was so great, glad brady was here or some other team might have landed Chip Kelly

Not saying Brady is some sort of savior.But the reality is hes here and he is going to be involved.Id rather let spytek do his thing but since Brady is involved I'm trying to find a silverlining

JRaider17 wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 8:27 am

Let Spytek do the job he was hired for sink or swim...Brady and Mark should stay out of it imo.