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3 reasons the Las Vegas Raiders are clearly rebuilding

By Micah McDonald

HENDERSON, NEVADA - JULY 27: General manager Dave Ziegler (L) and owner and managing general partner Mark Davis of the Las Vegas Raiders look on during the team's first fully padded practice during training camp at the Las Vegas Raiders Headquarters/Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center on July 27, 2022 in Henderson, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
HENDERSON, NEVADA - JULY 27: General manager Dave Ziegler (L) and owner and managing general partner Mark Davis of the Las Vegas Raiders look on during the team's first fully padded practice during training camp at the Las Vegas Raiders Headquarters/Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center on July 27, 2022 in Henderson, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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3 reasons the Las Vegas Raiders are clearly rebuilding

Future is not now

The Raiders’ biggest question is what the future of their quarterback position is going to be. While I can’t tell you what the answer to that question is, I can tell you with almost certainty that Jimmy Garoppolo is not that answer.

Hopefully, he can be some semblance of an answer for the short term, but this front office is going to have to find their franchise quarterback through the draft. With the short leash that many believe Dave Zeigler and Josh McDaniels have (I am not one of them), they are going to have to find said savior in either this year’s or next year’s NFL Draft.

You obviously can never say never. For all we know Jimmy G will stroll into Sin Cty and take the Raiders on a Super Bowl run for the ages. In all likelihood though, this team is two years away from competing for a Lombardi at best.

I do believe they are a good football team with good high end talent. They need to knock this draft out of the park though if they are going to prove that they are moving in a forward position.

Success year in and year out is what Mark Davis was looking for when he brought in these two guys to run the Raiders. That doesn’t just happen overnight though. These things take time and with time comes the ability to construct and build things the right way.

Some people don’t want to think that the Raiders are “starting over” in regards to trying to be competitive again. Yes, we are in a rebuild at the moment,  but that doesn’t have to be a negative thing.

If they are going to go and compete not only within their division, but in the AFC as a whole, they are going to have to upgrade in a whole lot of ways, which I believe they are on their way to doing. It’s just going to take some rebuilding to bring back this once-storied franchise to greatness again.

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