The Raiders have become no strangers to coaching regime changes and looking back at some of their failed hires in recent years, it’s interesting to see where people on the inside feel like those coaching staffs failed fell short.
On his podcast this week, Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter talked about the Josh McDaniels and Pete Carroll eras and shared a few details on how both coaches were perceived by players – or at least certain players.
According to Carpenter, McDaniels loved long meetings and the players joked that he never liked to see a meeting end.
“When Josh McDaniels was here, there was a sentiment he never wanted to leave a meeting,” Carpenter said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast.
“I had one player who would tell me about Josh McDaniels… they liked him the person off the field… away from football and you can be away from football in the building. But they said, I don’t think there’s anything Josh McDaniels dislikes more than having to say, ‘meeting is over.'”
“Last year, under Pete, there was a lot of meetings. But they weren’t always efficient. I’m not going to get into detail. I would just tell you, there was one particular meeting of which I was made aware, where one of the coaches was teaching something and talking about something [with] his boss… and the players are sitting there, and literally there’s a discussion going on among the coaches. That stuff should be all handled at meetings, coaches’ meetings, so that when you get into a classroom setting, it’s boom, boom, boom, boom efficiency.”
Carpenter said Klint Kubiak is bringing a different vibe to the Raiders this year, but it’s worth noting that there weren’t many criticisms of McDaniels and Carroll in their first months with the team, either.
Players seem to be responding well to Kubiak
“It’s all ball with him,” veteran cornerback Eric Stokes said last week. “And that’s what I love. He steps up, but he isn’t taking no little giggles, no nothing. We about business. We’re coming in, we’re doing this and doing that, there isn’t any other unnecessary stuff going on. Like, nah, he’s just straight ball.”
Kubiak talked last week about his initial meetings with the players and said it’s all about business and upholding the new standard in the Raiders’ building.
“We’ll find out if we get it by training camp, if we can uphold the standard that we put in front of these players in our team meeting,” Kubiak said last week. “If our conditioning level is where it needs to be, if we can practice the right way, if we can handle our business outside of the building and we can represent the shield the right way, then we’ll put it back on.”
Looking ahead, a few key dates for Kubiak and the Raiders leading up to training camp are the final OTA sessions coming next week and a three-day mandatory minicamp in the second week of June.
Organized Team Activities (OTAs)
June 1–4: OTA Workouts
Mandatory Minicamp
June 9–11: Mandatory Minicamp. All players are required to attend.
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Literally we who work at various jobs at your employer,none of like meetings but we attend some productive some not..Hondo these are employees players that’s their jobs to attend meetings daily regardless if they don’t like them..This is a boring and stupid waste of print..Can you ever write about something other then old news and comments about ex coaches?????
You’re literally garbage 🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️
A waste of print by a incompetent tool write, again!!!
Another Hondo masterpiece. “I’m not gonna go into specifics…” yeah we know cuz you’re making it up