The Real Truth Behind the Termination of Josh McDaniels
It’s been just over a week since the Las Vegas Raiders made the decision to fire Josh McDaniels as their head football coach. As is always the case, the dust still hasn’t settled while the internet runs wild with speculation regarding what really happened behind closed doors.
Luckily, A Fly On The Ball caught wind of everything that went down. To say there are always flies lurking around the Raiders facilities would be an understatement.
For the record, the nachos at Allegiant Stadium are to die for, flies everywhere love getting their grubby little hands and hairs in them. Many flies have drowned in that nacho dip over the years.
Back on topic, a fly on the wall within the Raiders organization reports tension had been brewing between Josh McDaniels and the entire world around him for quite some time. It’s no secret that being hired as an NFL head coach comes with a lot of stress, pressure, and expectations.
Of course, everyone has a different method for dealing with the copious amount of stress that comes with getting grown men to behave like adults. Many head coaches resort to stress eating. Just look at Andy Reid, Brain Daboll, and Mike McCarthy for example.
McDaniels almost elevated himself to that prestigious but exclusive list just before being fired on Halloween night of 2023. They had no choice but to fire McDaniels after catching him stealing candy from trick-or-treaters at the Raiders facility, on camera. Sadly, this was not the first time a food-related incident has occurred between McDaniels and the Raiders.
This was the second rodeo for McDaniels as a head coach though, he should know better by now. The Raiders even offer in-house counseling to help head coaches manage their stress eating but McDaniels ultimately chose not to attend his scheduled daily stress eating therapy sessions.
McDaniels did a much better job of managing his stress-eating while he was the head coach of the Denver Broncos. While enjoying a cup of coffee in Denver from 2009 to 2010, McDaniels posted a pedestrian 11-17 record. Just pathetic. However, as you can see below, McDaniels did a much better job of managing his obesity on his way down from his “Rocky Mountain High” than he did on his way out of Las Vegas:
Since landing in Sin City, McDaniels has only made his career winning percentage worse, going a paltry 9-16 during his stint with the Raiders. Needless to say, the stress of the job has really taken a toll on McDaniels over the years. He was actually doing an okay job managing his stress eating this season until a recent team meeting where McDaniels eventually hit rock bottom.
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During the team meeting, Antonio Pierce, the now interim head coach of the Raiders, referenced the 2007 New England Patriots. McDaniels happened to be the offensive coordinator for the Patriots back then, a season when New England was chasing history.
The Patriots were attempting to win the Super Bowl after a perfect regular season in 2007, something no team has accomplished since the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Pierce and the New York Giants defeated the Patriots in the Super Bowl that season, ultimately ending their bid to become the second perfect team in NFL history.
Antonio credited the Giants’ belief that they could win any game, against any opponent they played. That positive mentality ended with a Super Bowl victory over McDaniels’ Patriots. Pierce said the Raiders lacked that same mentality, which was obvious on the field and reflected by their losing ways.
After Pierce said that, McDaniels was already spoon-deep in a pint of Sour Grapes ice cream. McDaniels came over to Pierce to tell him never to talk about the Patriots like that again.
Ultimately, everybody has that George Costanza awkward moment of regret where they realize being stubborn, even if it was only out of principle, might not have been the brightest idea. For the former head coach of the Raiders, that moment of shame came at the very next practice. This was the first practice following the now infamous team meeting where the entire Raiders roster ripped into McDaniels like a piñata.
Everyone could clearly see McDaniels not only lost his balls, he had gained an extraordinary amount of weight overnight. Like an overweight neutered dog with his tail between his legs, there was McDaniels, with a salty, watery-liquid gathering in the pools of his eyes.
He barely had enough gas left in the tank to blow his whistle at that point, it sounded more like a one-legged cricket attempting to chirp for one last booty call. Some say the lackadaisical whistle was due to shortness of breath, others say it’s because McDaniels had his man card revoked in front of all the cool kids. His confidence was shot.
Later that night, Raiders owner Mark Davis invited the entire team and coaching staff out to the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace Las Vegas Las Vegas. He wanted to gauge where the team was at after such a mediocre start to the season while reminding them of the many perks you get for being a Raider on Halloween.
Davis even called ahead to make sure they had an all-you-can-eat supply of McDaniels’ favorite dish ready, Authentic New England Clam Chowder. Like a good host, Davis always made sure McDaniels had a hot bowl of clam chowder in front of him all night long. He knew how much food comforted the captain of his ship.
As the night’s feast of wining and dining continued, word eventually traveled up to Davis about how McDaniels was concerned with how people in the locker room talked about the Patriots. In fact, McDaniels seemed to care more about not bashing the Patriots than the coach cared about winning games for the Raiders.
Then, a Raiders Public Relations staffer showed Davis footage of McDaniels stealing candy from trick-or-treaters earlier that evening. You can see the reaction on Davis’ face was unpleasant, to say the least:
Despite conflicting reports on the internet, it was at that very moment Mark Davis decided to fire Josh McDaniels. He did it the classy way. Davis signaled for a waiter and proceeded to inform the Caesars Palace staff member to remove the fresh bowl of clam chowder from McDaniels’ table. Immediately.
A fly hovering around the table was there to witness what happened next. When McDaniels tried to cling to his bowl while ordering more clam chowder, the waiter kindly informed him, “Sorry, we don’t have enough clam chowder to feed the homeless.”
“Sorry, we don’t have enough clam chowder to feed the homeless.”
– Waiter Speaking to Josh McDaniels
McDaniels was not very happy to hear that. He wanted his goddamn clam chowder. It took a while for McDaniels to get the hint, as you can see here:
Eventually, McDaniels left Caesars Palace to go eat the Halloween candy he stole from trick-or-treaters earlier in the evening. When McDaniels arrived at the Raiders facility with a sugar hangover and clam-shits the next morning, he eventually put two and two together:
One can only imagine McDaniels enjoyed some shitty canned clam chowder and stolen candy while watching his former team take it to the Giants on Sunday, November 5, 2023. As they say, sometimes the couch really is the best seat in the house.
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