McDaniels Has Clearer Picture Entering Second Season

Las Vegas Raiders Coach Josh McDaniels is excited for what is ahead for his team.

The Las Vegas Raiders will look a lot different during the 2023 season, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're in a rebuilding process.

While the club brought in a new franchise quarterback for the first time in almost a decade and traded away one of the league's top tight ends in Darren Waller, Raiders Coach Josh McDaniels believes the organization is just making the moves necessary to fix the failures of last season.

“I'm excited," McDaniels said at the NFL's Annual League Meeting last week. "I'm excited about going forward. We know a lot more now than we did 12 months ago. Look, any time you change philosophies and systems and coaches and those kinds of things, there's always going to be change that happens to the organization. It's not unique to the Raiders. I think every team goes through it, players leave, new players come, you lose some coaches on your staff, that happens every year. So I think for us, we were excited about where we're at currently. 

"But we also know that there's work to be done here going forward, particularly in the draft, and to do a good job of putting people who fit the type of football we want to play; tough, smart, win up front as best we can on both sides of the ball. We need to get more explosive as a football team. We were in a lot of close games. And so, when you look at those close games, there's a chance to win them. And so, what are the things we need to do to try to get over the hump? Well, that's why we're trying to make some of the decisions we're making and why we have such an eye toward the future of the draft to see if we can make our team younger, tougher, more explosive as a group with some players who are under contract for a while.”

The 2023 NFL Draft will go from April 27-29 and be held at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo. The 2023 NFL Year and Free Agency period began at 4 p.m. EDT on March 15.

The Raiders are expected to be significant players in the free-agent market this offseason.

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