Silver and Black roots. What it means to be a Raider. Understanding “The Raider Way.”
These are the ties that suffocate. Another year, another head coach, all in the pursuit of the fading, yellowing images of what a franchise used to be and how it might be again. All setting the stage for the next chapter of the Los Angeles/Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, whose biggest problem is not a head coach or quarterback, but an owner who keeps Xeroxing the identity of his father, Al Davis, rather than meaningfully and patiently crafting one of his own.
It’s an imitation game under Mark Davis that is now five copies deep and bleached into nothingness — from Dennis Allen to Jack Del Rio, Jon Gruden to Josh McDaniels, and now Antonio Pierce to whoever Davis believes gets his team and legacy closer to a heyday that has sparsely appeared since the turn of the century.