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Hello everybody and welcome into the Athletic Football Show.

I am Michael Beller, your emergency host for this emergency edition of the

athletic football show. Robert Mays, Zach Kiefer, Mike Sando, who you would typically be hearing

in this spot, but all of them indisposed for one reason or another. So that is why you hear

my voice right now. We could not let the day pass without touching on the huge, huge and

unexpected news coming out of Las Vegas. Josh McDaniels, Dave Ziegler, fired, relieved of their

duties as head coach and general manager, respectively. The offensive coordinator

Micklembardi also let go to help us tackle this big piece of news coming

from Vegas. We bring on one of our Raiders, writers, writers at The Athletic, to Sean Reed.

Sean, thanks so much for being with us here today. Thanks for having me, ma'am.

So from the outside looking in, this appears to be a huge surprise, at least in terms of the

timing. You obviously are on the ground.

You are there every day. Did it come as that big of a surprise to you? Absolutely. I think the

end result isn't surprising, you know, especially coming off of last season, going six and 11 in their

first year on the job and then getting off to a rough start this season. you could tell the pressure was there for them to turn it around and start picking up some wins. But, you know, only eight games into the season, you know, it hadn't really been determined if they could turn it around, right? I mean, they're three and five, but they're going into a two- game home stretch against the Giants and the Jets,

which, you know, aren't the toughest teams in the world. And so realistically, they could have got back to 500 and put themselves back in contention. But, you know, owner Mark Davis just decided that he had seen enough and didn't feel like waiting to give them a chance to turn it around. He wasn't confident in the plan and the results that he's seen so far were obviously pretty terrible through 25 games.

And so he pulled the plug on the entire operation.

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