Josh McDaniels – Raiders ‘constructing’ however it’s sluggish, painful course of

HENDERSON, Nev. — Coach Josh McDaniels, a day after a surprising 25-20 loss to the Indianapolis Colts that dropped the Las Vegas Raiders’ report to 2-7, and with rumors floating about his job safety in his first yr with the group, stated he’ll keep the course.

“We’re constructing,” McDaniels stated in his weekly Monday media convention. “I’ve by no means used the phrase ‘rebuilding,’ or something like that. It is the Nationwide Soccer League; there’s not 5 years to do this.

“There is a course of that we’re attempting to undergo. Definitely, slower and extra painful than anyone desires it to be.”

And whereas McDaniels stated he had not been reassured of his standing by Raiders proprietor Mark Davis in “some massive clandestine assembly” in current weeks, McDaniels stated he’ll proceed to attempt to construct a basis for the longer term.

“I will management what I can management and do the very best I can at my job and a part of that’s persevering with to consider the longer term and subsequent yr and what goes on past the following few months right here,” McDaniels stated.

“If any person tells me that my time is completed, then my time is completed.”

Expectations have been excessive for Las Vegas after its unlikely run to a 10-7 end and the playoffs final season below interim coach Wealthy Bisaccia and common supervisor Mike Mayock, after which Davis selected to herald McDaniels and Dave Ziegler, as GM, from the New England Patriots.

However the Raiders bought off to a 0-3 begin. And after profitable two of three, they’ve misplaced their final three video games in dispiriting style, getting shut out by the New Orleans Saints and former coach Dennis Allen, blowing a 17-0 lead (their third such lack of the season) on the Jacksonville Jaguars, after which Sunday’s loss to the Colts, who had a coach who had by no means coached above the highschool degree in Jeff Saturday, an offensive coordinator who had by no means known as performs within the NFL earlier than in Parks Frazier and a 37-year-old quarterback who had been benched earlier this season in Matt Ryan.

“We’re not attempting to do something apart from win each recreation and that is what we’ll proceed to do,” McDaniels stated. “I believe the fact is, I do perceive the short-term historical past of this place. I used to be educated on it; they talked to me about it once I got here right here — attempting to get one thing collectively than can final and maintain and win and win and win and win and win. We’re not doing sufficient of it now and we perceive that. However on the identical time, that was the imaginative and prescient for us, to attempt to determine what’s going to be a part of the longer term, what is not. And the way we proceed going ahead goes to impression that.

“Whenever you undergo change, there’s some issues that you’ll see initially, and there is some issues that you’ll see over time. When you will have sufficient alternative to make these evaluations and attempt to get it proper finally, that is the chance that you just’re hoping for.”

McDaniels stated the aim is to “have a tradition and the type of folks on the group that proceed to attempt to uphold that yr after yr after yr” in Las Vegas.

“I perceive the short-term frustration. I get it. I actually do.”