As the Las Vegas Raiders fully move away from the Jon Gruden era, the hire to replace him has some similarities to his return to the team four years ago.
Like Gruden did in 2018, McDaniels is returning to the head coaching chair after a long interim. McDaniels hasn’t been an NFL head coach since December 2010, when he was fired by the Denver Broncos following a woeful 28-game tenure that started in 2009 when he was 32. This is actually the third time this century that the Raiders have hired a head coach after a long break, as illustrated by this Associated Press tweet:
Yes, Gruden and Shell’s return to the big chair didn’t work out well.