Tom Brady runs the ‘show’ with the Raiders
The The Las Vegas Raiders had a very disappointing season 2024 and decided to move on from head coach Antonio Pierce and general manager Tom Telesco after the season. Owner Mark Davis has a lot of work to do in rebuilding this roster and finding a new regime to lead it.
Now it appears that Davis may not even be the one in the room with the most influence. Instead, the former New England Patriots running back Tom Bradywho is now a minority owner of the team, is allegedly competent according to Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“Brady, who bought five percent of the Raiders in October, felt a complete reset was needed. He forced Davis to fire Telesco and Pierce and is expected to lead the charge in finding their replacements,” Bonsignore wrote. “This is Tom’s show now,” a person with knowledge of the situation told the Review-Journal.
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“Davis, who said he wants Brady to have a ‘big’ voice in Raiders football operations, will still make the final decision.” But he has tremendous confidence in Brady, with whom he has developed a personal and professional relationship over the past few years.
Regardless of who calls Brady and Davis, they are there is a lot of work to do to get this Raiders team back into contention. Las Vegas is in dire need of a quarterback and likely made it out of reach to draft him in the first round without trading up. The Raiders also need to add talent throughout the roster, as they have no blue-chip players other than Brock Bowers and Max Crosby.
To make matters even more difficult, the Raiders play in the extremely competitive AFC West. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs aren’t going anywhere, Justin Herbert seems to have found the perfect match with Jim Harbaugh as head coach and now it looks like Sean Payton, Bo Nix and the Broncos will be very good for the foreseeable future. As a franchise and as a roster, the The Raiders are way behind these three, and Brady and the rest of that front office have a lot of hard work to do to make up that ground.
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