re: did DA have a good hiring and firing record on picking coaches with the raiders

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In two years he’s fired both his defensive and offensive coordinators. He had the choice of hiring whoever he wanted the first go around.

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Coaches make bad hires all the time, the key is being able to admit your mistakes and make the difficult decsisons when to move on. It was also widely rumoured that Pete was forced onto DA as Mickey lead the "keep the culture" charge when he hired DA. I am not sure on who made the decision for the Co-DC, but again those were promotions within to "keep the culture". Nielson leaving was not him getting fired, he had an opportunity to be a DC (which is a promotion from Co-DC).

I don't recall what happened with Richard, he may have been fired, but it appears he stepped away from football. I do not see any records of him coaching at any position in NFL or College in 2023 or 2024. Very rarely do you see someone that was a coordinator not at least land as a position coach somewhere 1-2 years after unless they are no longer pursuing coaching (especially in their mid-40s).