A sweeping in-season change that sees a general manager and head coach ousted means flipping the script. That’s what we all saw for the Las Vegas Raiders when Champ Kelly and Antonio Pierce took over for Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels after Halloween last year.
And there was an aftershock of that reverberating tremblor when Pierce got the permanent head-coaching gig and Tom Telesco was tabbed GM by owner Mark Davis.
A flipped script isn’t relegated to just the top of a team’s pecking order. It’s a classic trickle down effect to the players, too.