The owner of the Raiders of Los Vegas, Mark Davis, said that adding Tom Brady as owner of a minority brought a necessary piece that was missing in the organization since Jon Gruden resigned.
“Bringing Tom Brady was bringing someone on the football side that I needed to have here in the organization,” Davis told journalists. “Back, I guess it was ’18, with Jon Gruden. He was someone who brought and really expected to be that person on the football side that would brought stability to the organization. He had a 10 -year contract and all that. And his head was cut.
Davis made his comments on Monday after the Raiders presented Pete Carroll as the new team coach and John Spytek as the new general manager.
Gruden resigned as Raiders chief coach in 2021 after reports arose that the emails he wrote for a period of 10 years included a racist, misogynist and anti-gay language. Gruden was ESPN employee as the main analyst of “Monday Night Football” at the time he sent the emails.
Gruden sent emails to Bruce Allen, then the president of the Washington NFL franchise, and others for a seven -year period that ended in 2018. The emails came to light during the NFL investigation into the misconduct of the workplace with Washington under former owner Daniel Snyder.
Since then, the Raiders have tried to replace Gruden first with Josh McDaniels and then Antonio Pierce before returning to Carroll.
Brady, a seven -time Super Bowl champion, was approved to buy the Raiders last October. He was part of the team by interviewing possible candidates for the chief coach, said Davis.
Davis said he hopes having found the couple to turn the Raiders in Carroll and Spytek.
“We want to build something here and again, that has been the process and that mentality all the time,” Davis said. “As I said, it moved or exploded when Jon Gruden was sent away and, therefore, we have been trying to do it well since then and we will see, but I have patience to do it well, and I think we have people now, I have always felt again That, the results are what they talk to me and that is what we will see. “
The Raiders had 22-31 under Gruden in their second period with the franchise after he initially trained the Raiders from 1998 to 2001. He was changed to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and defeated his former team in the Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.
The Raiders ended 4-13 this season.