The Las Vegas Raiders open the 2020 season in less than a week, traveling across the country to face a Carolina Panthers team in the first year of a redesign. The Panthers fired Ron Rivera after nine seasons and hired Matt Rhule, whose only job in the NFL came as an assistant offensive line coach with the New York Giants in 2012.
It doesn’t mean Rhule won’t be successful, I’m just highlighting the degree to which the organization has shifted course.
Rhule hired Joe Brady to be his offensive coordinator, one of the few coaches at the level of head coach or coordinator who may be more of an unknown than the guy who hired him.