This is happening.
As of Tuesday, Jon Gruden is the head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
With him comes plenty of fanfare and even higher expectations — not only for the Raiders’ 2018 season, into the next decade as well, as Gruden reportedly signed a 10-year contract Tuesday.
There’s no question that Gruden brings charisma to the table in his second stint as Raiders head coach — it was on full display Tuesday in Alameda — but he also brings some concerns.
Gruden, after all, is not walking into a ready-made situation. While the Raiders won 12 games in 2016, they lost 10 of their final 14 games last year and no one could argue that they didn’t deserve that fate.