‘It’s not a rebuild’: 10 thoughts from the Raiders’ introduction of Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler

The Raiders never planned for things to go this way, but their journey was thrown off script from the moment Jon Gruden resigned as head coach in October following the publication of offensive emails. “The phrase ‘commitment to excellence’ resonates with many of my core beliefs and a lot of the foundational pieces that will be important to building a championship culture here,” Ziegler said Monday. “It’s crystallized for me: I’m clear in the vision that I have for this role, for this job, for this team, and I’m going to be myself,” McDaniels said Monday. “We’ll make those considerations and determine how we want to go forward here as we kind of build the staff and move along with the team,” McDaniels said. “I think the one thing that we all understand is there’s going to be a process of us learning Derek, Derek learning us and fitting all those pieces together,” Ziegler said.