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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (89953)	1/5/2026 7:56:19 PM
From: nicewatch	Respond to of 90938

Yes, I know, sent a link. My speculation was about holding onto Spytek for now. Had I known Chip Kelly had been hired as OC at that time, I could have easily predicted this outcome way back then! :-) Unsure it's an age thing. Kelly destroys everything he touches. And the Raiders started off with a mediocre squad, imo. Brady doesn't have to worry though, the league let him buy a minority stake at a discounted sweetheart price.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (89953)	1/6/2026 4:24:34 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90938

Tom Brady’s latest Hail Mary: Saving the Raiders - Story by Andrew Beaton When the Las Vegas Raiders fired legendary coach Pete Carroll on Monday after just one year on the job, majority owner Mark Davis made it clear whose job it would be to fix the mess. And it wasn’t Mark Davis. The responsibility of reviving one of the most storied franchises in the NFL would fall to one of its most iconic figures. Tom Brady, a minority partner in the Raiders, produced countless heroics on his way to winning seven Super Bowls. The question now will be whether he can deliver another miracle—this time without the ball in his hands. His job is to find someone to lead a 3-14 team, outscored by 191 points this season, and drag it back to something approaching respectability. “General manager John Spytek will lead all football operations in close collaboration with Tom Brady,” Davis said in a statement, “including the search for the club’s next head coach.” That will make Brady, 48, the latest sports legend attempting to replicate his on-field success inside a front office. He certainly won’t lack assets to retool the franchise. The Raiders were so putrid this season that they now own the No. 1 pick in April’s draft, giving the NFL’s most successful quarterback the chance to handpick a franchise quarterback of his own. The top options this year include Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Oregon’s Dante Moore, who will face off in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Friday. The Raiders are also projected to have more than $100 million in salary cap space to spend in free agency, second-most of any team in the league. The problem for Brady is that Las Vegas is more than a couple of small fixes away from moving out of the cellar. Over the past two seasons, the Raiders have won a grand total of seven games. And over the past five years, they’ve churned through five different head coaches. This year was meant to change all of that. Carroll, who turned 74 this season, was hired as a steady hand whose championship-experience in college and in the pros would make the Raiders instantly competitive. They also acquired veteran quarterback Geno Smith, who had worked with Carroll in Seattle, to take the reins at quarterback. It all backfired spectacularly. The Raiders proceeded to turn in one of the worst seasons in franchise history. Smith led the NFL in interceptions and Las Vegas scored the fewest points of any team in the league. Two of the Raiders coordinators, including former NFL and college head coach Chip Kelly, were fired midyear. Now it’s up to Brady and Spytek—who were together in Tampa Bay when won his final championship with the Buccaneers—to pick up the pieces. “Together,” Davis said, “they will guide football decisions with a shared focus on leadership, culture, and alignment with the organization’s long-term vision and goals.” Plenty of sports legends have gone on to successful careers running franchises before. Jerry West was a perennial NBA All-Star as a player for the Los Angeles Lakers but was just as well-known as the architect of their later dynasties. But there have been plenty of epic flops, too. Matt Millen was a four-time Super Bowl champion linebacker, who won two titles with the Raiders, but came to be regarded as one of the worst ever sports executives over more than seven catastrophic seasons with the Detroit Lions. His tenure included the first 0-16 season in NFL history. The closest comparison to Brady might be NBA great Michael Jordan, and not just because both turned gigantic chips on their shoulders into cabinets full of championship trophies. Jordan became a part owner and lead decision maker with the Washington Wizards, a moribund franchise desperately seeking a turnaround. During that stint, Jordan was entrusted with making the No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft. He wound up using it on high-school big man Kwame Brown, who turned into one of the biggest busts the NBA had ever seen. Later, after unretiring and then retiring once again, Jordan became an owner of the team now known as the Charlotte Hornets. Things didn’t go much better. Charlotte never won a playoff series—and in 2012 recorded the lowest winning percentage in NBA history. msn.com