https://sports.yahoo.com/josh-mcdani...180744154.html
Just seven games into his second season as Las Vegas Raiders head coach, McDaniels hasn't made the Raiders better.
They've gotten worse.
Perhaps more damningly, he's seemingly making the same mistakes he once professed to have learned from during his short, failed stint as Broncos head coach in 2009-10. McDaniels has alienated and/or traded top players, including jettisoning beloved QB Derek Carr for perpetually injured Jimmy Garoppolo; he's making conservative decisions like starting 38-year-old journeyman Brian Hoyer over rookie Aidan O'Connell against Chicago; and the Raiders' offense is, well, almost offensive in its ineffectiveness.
And it's not for lack of talent: Running back Josh Jacobs and receiver Davante Adams were both All-Pros last year, and slot receiver Hunter Renfrow was once a Pro Bowler — at least he was the season before McDaniels arrived. Almost inexplicably, Renfrow has just eight catches in seven games this year.
Under McDaniels, the Raiders have gone 9-15, and as a head coach McDaniels is now 20-32. The loss to the Bears follows last year's humiliating losses to the Colts just days after embarrassingly inexperienced Jeff Saturday was lured away from the ESPN set to be interim head coach, and to the Rams just days after Baker Mayfield joined the team and hardly knew the playbook.![]()