On John Middlekauff’s podcast, former general manager of the Las Vegas Raiders Mike Mayock discussed his firing from the team.
On the April 2 broadcast of “3 & Out,” Mayock stated, “You come off something where you think – you inherit a four-win team and three years later, you win 10.” “You have a chance to tie the game with four downs in 35 seconds when you face the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl from the 9-yard line.
We failed to complete it. I sort of concluded that season by saying, “Well, it was a crazy year.” Jon Gruden was let go. That terrible accident that claimed a woman’s life involved Henry Ruggs. Rich Bisaccia was amazing, and even now, I find it hard to believe he’s not an NFL head coach despite all the horrible things that happened to us.
“And I think Rich and I saw things the same way, and I think we saw that there could have been a future there, building on that playoff team. So, getting fired – I kind of, I was like, ‘Wow.’ I understand there can be individual criticism on some of the draft picks, and I certainly understand why. Not everybody knows why guys got picked when they got picked.”
“I’m sure Mark Davis was sitting there thinking, ‘I’m going to move on,'” at one point when we were 6-7. In addition, we managed to secure the fifth seed in the AFC and handed the Raiders their second postseason team in twenty-one years, according to Mayock. Thus, I believe that Rich, the coaching staff, and the scouting staff shared some optimism that we would create something.
It turned out to be a mistake to fire Mayock and Rich Bisaccia in favor of Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels following the Raiders’ postseason run.
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