Raiders owner Mark Davis

Raiders Owner Mark Davis Is Overseeing A Potential Mess In 2023

Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis isn’t much of a fan favorite these days. The decision to bring in Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler left many fans with a soured taste. Coming off a playoff appearance, the team floundered to double-digit losses. Now, with recent rumors surfacing, 2023 could end up being a disaster for Davis and his Raiders.

Moving on from Derek Carr is a major, team-altering decision. Whether you like No. 4 or not, he was able to stabilize the quarterback position for the Raiders. That was after the team was in purgatory at the position for more than a decade. However, it appears that the Raiders’ brain trust has additional plans in terms of potential changes. As most Raiders fans are aware by now, ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler had Raider Nation in a frenzy this week. He mentioned that McDaniels and Ziegler will “continue aggressively tweaking the roster.”

Fowler went on to mention Darren Waller and Hunter Renfrow as potential trade targets for other teams. Now, to be clear, he doesn’t mention that the Raiders are moving them or are looking to do so. Rather, he expects teams to make inquiries. Still, it’s not a good look to know that your star players are being “looked at.” Is Mark Davis going to stand by and see his team be gutted of its playmaking stars?

The mere fact that the Raiders would move Waller and Renfrow after giving them long-term commitments is troubling. If there’s any legitimacy to a possible trade, of course. No wonder there are fans questioning this regime left and right. McDaniels had tons of success with reliable slot receivers and great tight ends in New England. With two of them in place, despite coming off injuries, why would you start over? They’re both Pro Bowl-level talents; you can’t exactly replace them with two players off the street.

McDaniels and Ziegler often talk about “culture,” but does this mean we can expect a roster teardown? As a Raiders legend recently said, the Raiders have backed themselves into a tough spot with their decision-making. 2023 could end up turning the Raiders into a laughing stock if McDaniels’ and Ziegler’s “plan” doesn’t produce results.

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51 thoughts on “Raiders Owner Mark Davis Is Overseeing A Potential Mess In 2023”

  1. Talking about ‘culture’ is a lame excuse for not being able to adapt your system to work for the talent you have. Carr isn’t an elite QB, but when the team loads up with talent at the skill positions and the QB’s performance falls off so precipitously you need to take a long hard look at the coaching.

    1. The coaching and ownership need to go far the f*** away. The talent of the team deserves soooooo much more.

      1. Agree coaching has to go this is doing the same thing Gruden did got rid of the best players, and what’s he’s trying to do.

  2. Silly article written about someone else’s idea, not even a rumor. Do people forget who have renfrow and Waller the damn contracts in the first place?!

  3. I will always be a Raiders fan. Not happy with Marc as owner…he does
    not have the football mind his dad had and he never will.

    1. What a great football mind Al Davis had during his last 10-15 years! Re-hiring Art Shell resulted in a 2-14 year. Let’s not forget drafting JaMarcus Russell and firing Lane Kiffin because Russell was awful!

  4. And if Brady ends up in Vegas!!! 😳🤨🤬🤬Talk about giving the Raider Nation a stab in the back. It was just proved that he has no spine in the first place and he’s just a puppet doing with other people want him to do

  5. Mark Davis doesn’t know how to manage the RAIDERS a shame to let raiders fans down like this and Davis wonder’s why the visiting team takes over allegiant stadium

    1. Vincent Ornalez

      Mark Davis isn’t a manager, he’s an owner. The GM manages the team..hence General Manager. Davis just has the loudest “voice” in the room.

  6. I’ve been a life long raiders fan since the late 60s
    What Mc Daniel’s has done to this team is disgraceful
    The same crappy coaching he brought to Denver
    Benching Carr was the last straw for me
    I can no longer support thus exercise in destruction
    Mc Daniel’s has got to go
    The raiders lost 5 or 6 games while having a double digit lead at half time.
    Piss poor coaching
    The play calling of this proclaimed offensive genius is disgusting
    I have been forced to change my loyalties to another team with a good if not great coach
    The 49ers
    Marc Davis, Josh Mc Daniel’s should be terminated immediately

    1. I hear you! It’s frustrating as a fan to watch the coaches and management tear this team apart. As a fan, I’m embarrassed. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to change my loyalty. Maybe, it is the first time I have considered it.

      1. I was thinking the same thing, I can’t even were a raiders jersey , thinking what the world is laughing at me 😶‍🌫️

        1. WE AS A FAN BASE REP OUR SYMBOL. IT’S DIFFICULT BUT WE STAND STRONG. IF YOU LEAVE DON’T COME BACK. GO HEAD AND (LIV).🙄

    2. Right there with you Jim. Bottom line is this team and the sport is entertainment for me. Period. I have sported Raiders gear and fanship since the 70s, but this isn’t “my team”. I have no ownership rights, shares, etc.. It is the team I have chose to support, and the last 20 years have been grueling.

      I am disinterested in watching the latest self – proclaimed genius waltz in and tear everything apart again. There are other teams that have put quality on to the field, rebuilt, and did it again in the same timeframe the Raiders have bounced off the bottom of the league. There are other options.. even college ball is more enjoyable.

      Maybe once they sell the team and rename it to something else I will come back, but for now.. my free time is worth more to me than what they are offering.

    3. Bye traitor. I’m sure amother fan base wants someone who couldn’t handle a career loser being benched.

    4. Jamison Sinclair

      You took the words out of my mouth. Fan since the ’70s. Unbelivebale how terrible threcent have been. Smdh

    5. The Forty Whiners can have you. Bandwagon whiners fans like the rest. What a shame. Do you know what “life long” means??? Your a joke like Mc🤡

  7. Mark Davis is a proven loser. He is not his father and never will be. The only thing he’s interested in is padding his pockets. After raider nation got the shafted and realized the season was sabotaged from the start, they sold their home tickets for the last two games. Like myself, many of us will do what Mark does, make money off the team and to hell with the fans. After 45 years of being a season ticket holder, I’ve seen enough of our current owner to know where we are headed.

  8. JeffreyChristiana

    Josh is not B.Bellicek.Why didn’t the D. Coordinator EVER get talked about???ALL OUR LOSSES HAPPENED AFTER WE HAD BIG LEADS IF YOU SCORE 20 PLUS POINTS MOST TEAMS WOULD WIN. WE DIDNT??THEY NEVER BLAMED THE D. CORDINATOR. D. CARR DIDN’T GIVE UP THE LEAD.BUT HE WAS BLAMED. THE DEFENCE LOST THE GAMES.HOW MANY LOSSES DID THE DEFENCE LOSE??? THE DEFENCE GAVE GAMES AWAY IN THE 4TH QUARTER IN MOST OF OUR GAMES.FIRE THE D.CORDINATOR..

  9. The raider HC should be fired NOW! He did a piss poor job. After job the team did in 2021 and now 2022 they fall flat on there face. When one is ahead with double digits leads at half time to only make poor coaching decisions and lose the game? It’s no wonder that there’s more of the other team fans than raiders fans at home games. I’ve been raider fan in the early 60’s when the Colosseum wasn’t built yet and the raiders were playing at the Laney College field. I don’t to be a 49er fan. However, they appear to know how operate a professional football team. I like Mark Davis seems not to know how to do.

  10. It’s naive and silly to go off because of things written and spoken by people who are paid to write or speak things and neither care about nor are held accountable for things that aren’t true. It’s not a “mere fact” that something is going to happen unless or until it really happens.
    Raider fans should be happy if other teams are really asking to trade for Waller and Renfrow. That would be evidence that their still-new contracts are at reasonable amounts. Other teams want to improve too, and they lose nothing by asking.
    Raider fans should not be alarmed that McDaniels and Ziegler intend to “aggressively tweak” the roster. If anything, we should be hoping for stronger words than tweak. The Raider D has given up more than 24 points per game in every year since the passing of AD except for 2017 .

  11. WE ARE FREE TO MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES. IF YOU LEAVE DO NOT COME BACK. FOR WE ALL HAVE BEEN THROUGH THESE TOUGH TIMES. FOR WHAT TO WALK AWAY. NEVER.

  12. DON’T COME BACK. REPPING THE WHINERS. THE FAN BASE THAT HAD THE LOWEST ATTENDANCE 4 YEARS AGO. SANTA CLARA HAD 15,000 FANS SHOWING UP. IF YOU ONLY GO FOR WINNING YEAMS DONT CLAIM A TEAM. JUST SPORT THE NFL SYMBOL. RNFL. EVEN WHEN DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD. ONE WAY TO MOVE FORWARD IS STOP BUYING STUFF TILL THE MAKE CHANGES. BUT TO SWITCH SIDES. JUST SAD. WISH YOU THE BEST BUT NOT SO MUCH. RAIDER NATION☠️☠️☠️

    1. I agree with you. The way I’m gonna move forward is to not give them my money until they make the changes that bring us back to prominence

    1. Mcdaniels took over a playoff team and turned it into a rebuild. By the time davis realizes he has to fire him the entire roster will.be full of “his” guys and another rebuild will be needed. The team wont contend in the West for the next 10 years. If the bronocs get payton as coach, you are looking at last place finishes in the division.

  13. Is our Coach’s Offensive plan so difficult that we have to have all Patriot Players to understand it. Now rummers to give up Waller and Renfrow this guy is turning this team upside down and Marc Davis is letting this happen. Then he’s mad because visiting team fans are showing up to our home games He gets what he deserves. How could he expect not this to happen. Raider Fans pay good money to see what this Raider team turning into !! All I can say is GOOD JOB MANAGEMENT AND COACHES!!! YEAH RIGHT!!

  14. Raiders left the fans twice n every time they came back the fans got screwed they had to pay more for season tickets to watch what? Losing a game in 2nd half then players gettin the shaft to … LoL if you haven’t figured it out yet you go right ahead and keep on taking it where the sun don’t shine!.

  15. Justin L Zacheis

    Mark Davis needs to sell the franchise, he is one of the worst owners in the nfl, I wouldn’t let this dude be the ringleader of a flea circus, him, and the staff he has put in place are a absolute joke, I can see we will be headed down a rabbit hole of losing for years to come, yet again thanks to this clown and the clowns he put in place 💯

  16. I’ll never give up on the raiders but I do agree Josh McDaniels is the worst Coach I’ve ever seen coach The Raider Nation he got to go

  17. Plenty of blame to go around here. Starts with Davis and continues to McDaniels. Very talented roster but McDaniels does not know how to use them. Adams, best receiver in football , had an up and down season. Not his fault. Example: Saints game , did not even have 10 yards receiving. Coaching all the way. Some good assistant coaches make lousy head coaches. Cut your loses and fire McDaniel. Forget patience Mr. Davis!!

  18. Raidercardaddict

    Let’s call a spade a spade and thus looks a lot like when Daddy Davis brought in Shanahan after Tom Flores left. The Raiders would be gutted, veterans lost or left, and Shanahan did everything short of stealing Al’s golf cart. The result? Art Shell would be brought in to right the ship, started motivating the team and helped the Raiders get back to respectability. Right now, McDaniels…is a joke. So is his GM. If both are not gone after 2023…the team will be dead for 10 years, trying to repair the damage.

  19. 9 years w Carr and the blame is always on someone else, some other unit .. QB gets the praise when his team does well, QB takes the hit when his team struggles.. if Carr were Afr American he would have been traded or cut at least 5 yrs ago, and y’all cannot deny that…

  20. DC was literally playing for his contract and he had the worst year statistically… sure, blame McDaniels… A good QB is a LEADER.. Carr has never been a good leader on the field… Off the field, yes, on the field, he’s too nice, doesn’t have that killer instinct and he’s afraid to run when necessary because he’s afraid to get hit .. face it, as other defensive players have called him, Derrick Carr is SOFT… he’s an ordained minister which is prob why he tries to be friends w guys that want to sever his head from his body … And just in case y’all Carr-lovers don’t remember… Last game in Oakland, we lost, a game we could have won.. after the game, a few Raiders went around the stadium, dapping up the fans as a way to say thanks… Carr tried to join in and the fans immediately started booing him… He made a b-line for the locker room… McDaniels/Zigler can easily make a trade to get Chicago’s 1st overall pick or the Cards #3 pick and we can draft Bryce Young or CJ Stroud… we need a stud at QB to go toe to toe w the other ballers at QB in the AFC… b4 y’all blame the defense, yes, they gave up some big plays but most of our losses, if the offense could put up 21 pts, we make the playoffs… I’m THRILLED DC is gone!!!

  21. Raiders will be Raiders . I am a Raider, from Raider Nation , the Oakland Raiders NO ONE WILL EVER CHANGE THIS,,,NO ONE.

  22. We need to get back play Raider football, do Mark have something against he’s father or is it his eagle?

  23. Agree, he brought back Gruden let him get rid of the best some of the best players, then bring in these patriots why now there trying to do the same thing get rid the best players again.

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