{"id":716503,"date":"2026-04-09T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/716503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:26:20","slug":"raiders-mark-davis-ripped-by-former-staffer-he-doesnt-know-anything-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/716503\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders&#8217; Mark Davis Ripped by Former Staffer, &#8216;He Doesn&#8217;t Know Anything Football&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis received a scathing review from former staff members of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Athletic&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7152485\/2026\/04\/09\/raiders-jon-gruden-coaching-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Zak Keefer<\/a> spoke to multiple former Raiders employees who ripped Davis for never adapting or learning what it takes to build a successful football team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;In a way, he&#8217;s great to work for because he lets you do your thing,&#8221; one former employee told Keefer. &#8220;But he&#8217;s nothing like his dad. He doesn&#8217;t know anything football. &#8216;Oh, my dad liked fast guys? Where are all the fast guys?&#8217; \u2026 It was all about The Raider Way. That thinking is so archaic. It&#8217;s not even relevant anymore. They gotta be good football players, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Keefer pointed out that Al Davis was a former coach and served as the commissioner of the American Football League before becoming the owner of the Raiders. Meanwhile, Mark Davis was simply handed the team after his father&#8217;s death in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Former employees described Davis as &#8220;as hands-off as they come,&#8221; and revealed that he was known for &#8220;sleeping in most mornings and never involving himself in personnel decisions.&#8221; The Raiders have made just two playoff appearances during his tenure, with 11 losing seasons in that span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;He has no idea what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; one former staffer told Keefer. &#8220;He thinks just like a fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis received a scathing review from former staff members of the franchise. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":716504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-716503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116376632452925337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}