Graney: Raiders’ next coach needs to be the innovative type

Here’s the ironic part: Jon Gruden was erstwhile 1 of those up-and-coming coaches. A young gun.

He was hired by the Raiders astatine property 34 successful 1998. He went 16-16 implicit his archetypal fewer seasons, past 22-10 the adjacent two, past won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay a twelvemonth later.

Here’s the evident part: In present searching for a caput coach, the Raiders request to again question retired a new-age leader. An innovative one. Someone who keeps the franchise applicable successful today’s NFL by however it plays.

Who has a escaped tone successful respect to mounting trends and gaining yards and scoring points.

Who embraces going for it connected 4th down much times than not, for goodness sake.

Who isn’t stubborn to a responsibility astir establishing the run.

Who is much teacher than boss, much modern than aged school, much communicator than hard-and-fast.

Whose playbook isn’t coated successful a fewer inches of dust.

Bisaccia takes over

The Raiders are searching due to the fact that Gruden connected Monday resigned 5 games into his 4th play and 2nd go-round arsenic the team’s coach. He walked distant successful the aftermath of a New York Times study that stated Gruden utilized misogynistic and anti-gay connection successful galore emails during a seven-year play opening successful 2011.

Special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia has been named interim caput coach.

I’m guessing things volition spell similar this: Bisaccia volition grip his existent responsibilities portion dealing with the media and different caput coaching duties portion violative coordinator Greg Olson oversees that broadside of the shot and antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley his unit.

With Bradley, antiaircraft enactment manager Rod Marinelli and violative enactment manager Tom Cable, determination are 3 erstwhile NFL caput coaches connected staff. Everyone tin interruption down film.

But the aboriginal beyond this play is different matter. Gruden controlled each facet of shot operations. He answered lone to proprietor Mark Davis. That’s what 10 years for a reported $100 cardinal gets you. All encompassing power.

How the relation of wide manager Mike Mayock mightiness present alteration is anyone’s guess. When idiosyncratic with the interior clout of Gruden departs, each bets are disconnected erstwhile talking who mightiness yet stick.

But should Mayock beryllium the 1 compiling a database of coaching candidates to either marque the last determination oregon simply stock them with ownership, helium would beryllium astute to deliberation creatively. As successful that benignant of coach.

“It’s the close way to take,” said Mike Pritchard, who played for 3 NFL teams from 1991-99. “We’re successful a league of throwing the shot each implicit the yard. Things are cyclical. We ran the run-and-shoot erstwhile I played and threw the shot each over. Now it’s backmost to those times.

“It would beryllium the close way for the Raiders and, really, anyone other searching for (a coach) to follow.”

Younger coaches are consenting to accommodate acold much now. They question a collaborative beingness wrong the locker room. They’re unconventional successful a productive way.

It’s not to accidental the Raiders didn’t nutrient nether Gruden. He was somewhat acceptable successful his ways, sure, but it was inactive an onslaught that hovered astir and sometimes supra the league’s Top 10 offenses.

Follow the leaders

Now accidental exists for it to beryllium adjacent more. For a hunt to possibly unearth the adjacent Sean McVay oregon Matt LaFleur oregon Kevin Stefanski oregon truthful on. Sometimes, however, it’s astir much mindset than age. See a fewer Super Bowl-winning coaches named Andy Reid and Bruce Arians.

“I saw a touchdown successful the Dallas-Giants crippled wherever they ran the nonstop aforesaid play we utilized to,” Pritchard said. “It was called Z-90 successful the run-and-shoot. So coaches are present calling those aforesaid types of things. It’s a instrumentality to a antithetic era.”

A much breathtaking one. A much innovative one.

When successful hunt of their adjacent coach, the Raiders would beryllium astute to travel suit.

Ed Graney is simply a Sigma Delta Chi Award victor for sports file penning and tin beryllium reached astatine egraney@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-4618. He tin beryllium heard connected “The Press Box,” ESPN Radio 100.9 FM