Long before they moved to Las Vegas, the Raiders always seemed like a roll-the-dice, go-for-broke kind of operation.
"Just win, baby" was the mantra of their owner Al Davis, but in his final years — and after his son Mark took over following Al's passing in 2011 — that ethos didn’t always lead to the most carefully crafted of plans to accomplish it.
They’d flail about changing cities, coaches and quarterbacks at breathtaking speed. They’d reach for genius — JaMarcus Russell at No. 1 overall? Lane Kiffin as a 31-year-old head coach? Big free agents or unproven assistants getting a chance?