Although the Las Vegas Raiders entered the playoffs in an incredible way, with their wild card game eliminated by the Tigers, the team still needs to rebuild the new season, after all, the team has not yet officially a head coach, and now their general manager position has been declared vacant. The latest news said that the Raiders have cut Mike Mayok, who has been the general manager of the team for the previous three seasons.
This move is not unusual, because Mayyoke was recruited by former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, and at the beginning of the season, Gruden was exposed to negative news outside the game and immediately left class, if it were not for the Raiders entering the playoffs, Mayyoke's class time would be a week earlier. The 63-year-old was hired by Raiders as general manager in December 2018 after spending 15 years as a draft analyst on the NFL's official website, helping teams with draft analysis.
Although Mayyoke is the general manager, the raiders' real power is still in Gruden's hands, and boss Mark Davis said that Grüden has 51% of the decision-making power when it comes to decision-making. However, after Gruden's resignation, Mayyuk had the initiative in the decision with interim coach Rich pisacia. However, now that he has to leave the team, Pisacia, as the first interim manager to lead the team to the playoffs in the Super Bowl era, still has the opportunity to get a formal coaching job.
It is worth mentioning that although Mayyok is a draft expert, the first-round shows he selected for the Raiders did not pay the price. In addition to the team's main running back Josh Jacobs performing decently, their rushing passer Clarin Farrell selected with the fourth overall pick in the first round of 2019 is completely unskilled from college, and cornerback Jonathan Abram is fairly defensive and full of holes in the cross.
The 2020 first-round show was even more disastrous, with first-round receiver Henry Lagos III having been cut by the team due to the death of a car accident, and another cornerback they selected in the first round, Damon Arnett, was also cut. The first-round picks that were originally exchanged with the two stars of Caryl Mark and Amari Cooper now seem to have been lost. Alex Lesserwood, who was selected with the 17th pick in the first round of 2021, can only switch to right wing forwards and become the second most fouled offensive striker in the league.
However, Mayyoke's low-post Taobao strength is indeed superb, in the fourth round of 2019, he selected defensive end Max Crosby, who has shined in the rush pass this season; in the fifth round of the same year, he selected the slot outside Hunter Renfu, who is now the Most Stable External Weapon of the Raiders.
(Aibao)