Las Vegas Raiders: Davante Adams is the latest to endorse Josh McDaniels
Raiders WR Davante Adams sings praises of Josh McDaniels amidst a lackluster season
From 10-7 to a complete disaster. How quickly things can change.
It’s been a long, disappointing road for the Las Vegas Raiders thus far. 10 weeks into the club’s ’22 campaign, the Silver and Black have totaled seven losses and a mere two victories.
Ouch.
In the eyes of Raider Nation, head coach Josh McDaniels deserves to be on the hot seat. In the eyes of his players, however, McDaniels has done a fine job.
All-Pro wideout Davante Adams is the latest Raider to endorse the team’s head coach.
On Wednesday, Adams spoke about Josh McDaniels, giving his thoughts on how much blame he feels should be thrown upon Las Vegas’ first-year man in charge.
"“You look at the history of this place, I don’t think a playoff game has been won in over 20 years here. There’s no magic coach that’s going to come in and change that. And I think that Josh is doing a great job and he does deserve that, in my mind. We can all be better in certain instances but some of the greatest coaches that this league has seen had some tough times.”"
Adams also touched on team owner Mark Davis’ statements regarding McDaniels. Earlier in the week, Davis supported his coach by acknowledging these things take time to develop.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”, Davis said. Davante Adams agrees.
“It’s good for Josh, good for the rest of the guys, too”, the stud receiver stated. Whether continuing to build around McDaniels is the right idea or not remains to be seen, but Adams seems to have bought into the idea of doing so.
Las Vegas Raiders: Davante Adams is the latest to endorse Josh McDaniels
Despite emotional press conference, Derek Carr is pro-McDaniels
After yet another tough loss this season, this time at the hand of a team whose head coach had never coached any level of football beyond high school, Carr took to the podium to answer media questions.
The veteran quarterback is used to being on the wrong end of contests, but this time his emotions got the best of him.
Carr teared up as he discussed how difficult these losses are for him to swallow; how difficult it is for everyone on the team to put their bodies through such physicality in each practice just to suffer loss after loss.
But this was no shot at Josh McDaniels or any of his other coaches. In fact, Carr thinks highly of the team’s coaching staff.
"“I love Josh. I love our coaches. They’ve had nothing but success – way more success than I’ve ever had.”"
The 31-year-old doubled down on his love for McDaniels on Wednesday.
It isn’t only Adams who’s happy with Mark Davis’ endorsement of Josh McDaniels. Adams and his quarterback are often on the same page on the field, and things aren’t much different off the field, either. Like his All-Pro receiver, Carr shares the belief that keeping McDaniels around is best for the team.
“I’m so happy to hear that Mr. Davis feels that way”, Carr said. “I’m so happy that he loves Josh.”
The Las Vegas Raiders may be 2-7 right now, but both the team owner and players are fully bought into their head coach. Time will tell how the process goes.