Hello everybody and welcome into the MMQB podcast. I am

Matt Verteram alongside Gilberto Manzano as is the case every single Wednesday and

Gilbert look first things first here's the good news we still have our jobs

the bad news is some people with the Raiders do not now maybe if you're a Raiders fan maybe that's not bad news maybe that's great news I don't know I'm I'm not I'm not part of Raider Nation. I would imagine that the frustrations at an all-time high, you have covered the

Raiders in the past as a team beat guy.

They are now looking at Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach because Josh McDaniel's is gone.

Dave Ziegler, gone as the general manager and so we'll see who takes over that post

eventually. This is not exactly new to the Raiders. This has been a revolving door, whether it was

Jack Dal Rio at one point a head coach or it was John Gruden or it was Tony

Sprano or it was I mean on and on and on and on you know

Mike Mayock at GM and you can just keep filling in the names none of them lasted that

long and so now the Raiders mid-season firing of course this happened with

Gruden under different circumstances Gruden essentially they had to move

off of immediately. McDaniel's are moving off of because he just flat can't coach.

What are your thoughts on the Raiders and what happened essentially at like midnight

for most of the country these These two out the door.

Yeah, you know, I'll start there. It was like I think 10 p.m. on the west coast. So you know I was still up trying to enjoy the last couple hours of Halloween and

Matt I was watching the original Friday the 13th I was

carving a pumpkin I had like maybe you know 50 you know chocolate bars you know I was

stuffed and I saw this from Madam Schefter and I'm like oh okay I was a little

surprised Mark Davis actually did it 25 games into the hiring and Josh

McDaniel's which I think we all could say yeah it was a bad hiring a year and a half ago but shocking that

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