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If the Las Vegas Raiders are going to take that next step to being a playoff team in 2024, they’re going to need more from their offense, which struggled in 2023 and figures to be the team’s biggest weakness this coming season.
The reason for that is the quarterback situation, where things are uncertain. Las Vegas currently has a battle between Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell, but neither is guaranteed to be enough to put the Raiders over the top. We should note, however, that both signal-callers nearly led their teams to the playoffs in 2023.
On the other side of the ball, the Raiders are ascending after a very strong finish to last season. Las Vegas will look to build on that and adding defensive lineman Christian Wilkins will greatly help that cause.
With a little under three months to go before the start of the 2024 campaign, we’re taking a crack at predicting which Raiders will lead the team in every major stat category, along with our shot-in-the-dark projection for what they’ll finish with.
On the other side of the ball, the Raiders are ascending after a very strong finish to last season. Las Vegas will look to build on that and adding defensive lineman Christian Wilkins will greatly help that cause.
With a little under three months to go before the start of the 2024 campaign, we’re taking a crack at predicting which Raiders will lead the team in every major stat category, along with our shot-in-the-dark projection for what they’ll finish with.
“Teams that are successful, franchises that are healthy, they have leadership that’s stable,” Carpenter said on the “Las Vegas Insider Podcast.” “We’re talking below the owner level, we’re talking [general managers], assistant [general managers]. … If you got a good GM, you’re going to lose assistant GMs, because they’re gonna go and they’re going to get other jobs — GM jobs. … Since I’ve been covering the Raiders for five years … the Raiders have had four GMs. Now, one of them was an intern in Champ Kelly. But they had Mike Mayock, Dave Ziegler, Champ Kelly, and now they have Tom Telesco. If you’re going to be a healthy franchise, you absolutely positively have got to have stability of management.
“Again, when you’ve got a great GM, they are going to lose their [assistant GMs] to other jobs. So it’s not necessarily a stability with those guys leaving, but it’s with that GM job. … There is no shame when your staff leaves for a bigger position and more money. … When you lose key players to the same position in another franchise, because you’re not willing to pay them, that’s being cheap. Now that’s not been the case with the Raiders, but the problem is they’ve had no stability with the general manager. General managers are the neck that moves the head.”
