Welcome, Pete Carroll!

Finally, a GROWNUP and a PROVEN commodity at head coach. 

 I'm not saying Pete's going to be incredible and the Raiders are going to be instantly great, but at least we're finally in the ballpark and not flailing around wondering if Pierce is up to the task (nope), if McDaniels has gotten his s*** together (nope), if Gruden still has the old magic and isn't going to be cartoony (nope), etc.

This is just a simple, rock-solid, low-downside, possible high-upside choice of a stable coach who can shepherd the team through this transition time and out of the abyss and not look out of place or out of his depth in a division with Reid, Payton and Harbaugh. 

I'll take it. 

Raiders Fire Antonio Pierce

This was inevitable the moment he was hired. Sorry, but truth.

And while the Broncos were hiring Sean Payton and drafting Bo Nix, and the Chargers were pairing Jim Harbaugh with Justin Herbert, Mark Davis was performing his favorite pastime: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Is Mark Davis FINALLY ready to get serious? We are already YEARS behind our division rivals. The only question now is how many. Davis needs to find a way to shorten that timeline as much as possible. 

To date, he hasn't demonstrated any capability of doing that. And so yet another waiting game unfolds.