Raiders fans have been a patient bunch, and so have the last few losing coaching staffs — to a fault.
Who can forget defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan in 2011 continuing to drop stiff-in-the-hips middle linebacker Rolando McClain farther and farther back into coverage … until he was matched against Detroit receiver Calvin Johnson on a game-deciding play. (Which didn’t go well.)
Or offensive coordinator Greg Knapp preaching in 2012 that the stagnant zone run-blocking scheme just needed more time … in Week 11.
Or even last year, when head coach Dennis Allen and interim head coach Tony Sparano continued to hand the ball to Dennis McFadden and watch him run into linemen’s butts … while big and spry Latavius Murray watched on the sideline.