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Year after year, move after moving, rental after rental, the Raiders surpass their own abject humiliation ability and, whenever you think that they are at the bottom, they bring a new shovel. And now, with the imminent beginning and end of the Antonio Brown era, they can honestly say that the Earth's crust suits them.
But here we are, falling back into the trap. Of course, Raiders can be ashamed even more than that. They always do. They are the corkscrew that never reaches the head, no matter how much you twist. If we can compare them to a mineral, they are cans. They asked the entire National Football League to keep their beer, because no team is so often, so embarrassingly, or so complete.
Here's the kicker, though. What did the Raiders do wrong here with the exception of the Raiders? They hired a high-risk gamer with a plan that would make him happy through the magic of financial and emotional cheating, discovered that it did not work, then went from support to discipline and discovered that it did not work out. more. They tried an old Raider ploy that, like all the others, had stopped working decades ago – taking the talented but difficult defeats of other teams and retrying them for new glories – and sorely missing. They have been missed almost without remission since the mid-80s. It is a serious failure with weapons.
Do not worry about the Kansas City Chiefs signing a contract extension with Tyreek Hill and asking what's worse.
The obvious answer is, "Well, Hill shows up to train." Cynical, even disgusting, but it's football, always effective.
This is not to say that Gruden is an unlucky but forward-thinking thinker. He will continue to pay for his impulsive dismissal of Khalil Mack, and if Amari Cooper can remain an influential player in Dallas during this year and the following years, he will bear the consequences. In one way or another, not getting Brown to take the pitch will land as well as Brown, and may well deter him from taking big shots in the future.
But he has ridden a carriage of winged stallions to heal all the open wounds on Raider's body and the changes that he has brought with success have been at best progressive. He came to Mark Davis and the fan base she was giving up, but the team is certainly no better than she was, which is the following:
- Second regular season record (153-231) since 1995, the year of their relocation.
- Second appearance in the playoffs since 1995. They have regrouped three at the beginning of the century but only one in the last 16 years.
- Had 13 coaches in 24 seasons, including two guys twice.
- It is impossible to shame two cities to pay millions to prevent them from leaving.
- They only established the impressive feeling that their only real job as a franchise is to preserve, glorify and amplify Al Davis and the 1970s.
Gruden is responsible for only five years in total, and three of them have been among the best years of the new Raiders. His main skills irritated Al in a thousand ways and conquered his roster, then again upset him when Al had traded him to Tampa Bay and had beaten him at Al's last Super Bowl. Things have deteriorated before and after Gruden, and even those good old days are now over fifteen in the past. Gruden came back as a favor to Mark Davis' desperate need to sink into the old man's metaphorical eye and, to be charitable, he did not change anything for the better. It is part of a bizarre exchange between Jack Del Rio and ESPN which, in the best of cases, is inconclusive (Redshirted of Del Rio in 2018) and is for the moment another example of the remaining Raiders where they were in 2015, and nowhere.
Brown, for its part, is one of the most astonishing drifts in the history of modern sport. He signed a huge contract that he needed, froze his feet, fought for less personal cranial safety, did as little work as an employee can do, and then less than that, threatened to rob his boss's sous-chef and did everything. before he could be sure that he would get all the money that he had said that he should have, and that he would have had if he had been able to spend a month or so without doing it. (And yes, I bet the Raiders will apologize in tears at the base on Friday morning as less useful than the money.)
And this is the betterScenario-case for Gruden now-that the Raiders suspend Brown and then cut him off and do not have to pay him a dime. It's a humiliating mulligan in which everyone loses their face, their feet, their wallet and their reputation. Brown may never work again, even though no one believes in his power to change minds quite like coaches, but he has all alone tackled his last opportunity to make a lot of money. Mayock plays the bad cop without a good cop, which throws him so hard that it could send him back to the television.
Most importantly, however, this overheated dumpster burns closer to Gruden, who has been exposed as having too many jobs and no firm idea to handle the one that does not involve play. He inherits talent and negotiates it. When he looks for new talent, he pampered him, punished him in case of failure and worsened the situation. His only big success other than his contract is destroying Hard blowsbut that does not lead you to Canton, or even to a sporty Emmy.
Above all, however, it only adds to Raider's new heritage, namely: he never stops becoming stranger and he never stops getting worse. There can be nothing stranger than Antonio Brown, and yet there will be. Gruden has been at work for 20 months and he knows that Doom is his co-pilot.
The Gruden era is coming to an end, it is likely that he and Mayock will turn around and quit smoking in impotent rage (after being paid in full because Mark Davis will be soft to the touch even if they are rejected), reconciling with Mayock, returning to TV with him and eventually doing a podcast because that will be the only work left after the apocalypse.
And Antonio Brown? He will sign contracts with several teams in several sports and will not achieve any. In the end, he will actually make a podcast in which he will shout especially to passers-by to pay him for yelling. Without ever really happening as a Raider, he will be as Raider as possible. Until it gets worse.
Ray Ratto is considering a future in which Las Vegas changes the locks and address on the front of the city and tries to divert the Raiders to Albuquerque.
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