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McKenzie, upstart Raiders ‘avoided traps, focused on big picture’

ALAMEDA – The Raiders haven’t won many games during general manager Reggie McKenzie’s tenure. Just 11 games in his first three seasons, never more than four in a single year. The total bottomed out at 3-13 a year ago, when he fired a head coach at the bye week.

That isn’t a good start by any stretch, even though he took time to get the Raiders right with the salary cap. Owner Mark Davis called it a “deconstruction” period, followed by reconstruction that hit some roadblocks along the way.

Most of them came in free agency. McKenzie has been steadily stockpiling talent in the draft in an attempt to build up this franchise the old fashioned way.