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Tom Brady might have a say in whether or not Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce can be returning for a second full season in 2025.
The Athletic’s Dianna Russini mentioned on Friday’s episode of Scoop Metropolis that she believes Brady will “be a part of” the Raiders’ teaching choice after his minority stake within the staff was approved by NFL staff house owners in October.
“[Raiders owner] Mark Davis could be very captivated with leaning on Tom Brady for ideas—particularly once they need to go choose a quarterback sooner or later right here,” Russini mentioned (23:50 mark of the video beneath.) “Whether or not which means the draft or which means free company, if it means the quarterbacks which can be on their roster proper now.
“However what I’ve discovered not too long ago is it is not simply going to be Tom Brady’s ideas on the quarterback place, which might make sense, proper? …However actually how concerned Tom Brady goes to be in all regards in the whole lot that has to do with the Las Vegas Raiders.
“Which, look, you are Mark Davis. You are pissed off. You have not been in a position to get this factor proper in a very long time. So they will must decide about their head coach with Antonio Pierce. I’ve talked to individuals across the league who consider that that is most likely going to be it for AP. …However I believe Tom Brady goes to have a giant hand in serving to Mark Davis navigate the following steps right here.”
The report comes after Davis advised reporters on the annual house owners conferences earlier this month that he desires Brady “to have an enormous voice” within the Raiders’ group.
In keeping with Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal, Davis sees Brady’s subsequent position as taking “cost of soccer operations, working above the overall supervisor and coach.”
“It is a part of constructing the infrastructure of the group, which is one thing we did not have — a soccer individual on that facet of it that is not a coach or as a supervisor,” Davis mentioned on the annual conferences, per Bonsignore. “Any individual that may oversee the entire image. And I consider Tom, in time, would be the individual that may try this.”
Davis added: “Clearly, I speak to him on a regular basis, and his enter is significantly valued and can at all times be valued.”
Firing Pierce and hiring a brand new head coach would imply the Raiders could be paying a complete of three head coaches and two normal managers, CBS Sports activities’ Jonathan Jones not too long ago reported.
The excessive entrance workplace turnover in Las Vegas has been expensive for the franchise, which spent roughly $85 million when firing the staff’s earlier management staff halfway by way of the 2023 season, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
However Jones famous that Davis “has not too long ago gotten a money infusion” after promoting multiple minority stakes in his franchise this fall. That might enable him, and Brady, the flexibleness to determine to maneuver on from Pierce regardless of having the pinnacle coach under contract for 2025.
The Raiders are 3-12 and can doubtless be trying to restructure round a brand new quarterback subsequent season after Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell’s struggles this fall. It seems like Brady will get to have a say in what that rebuild seems to be like.
