SEPTEMBER 8: McDaniels confirmed on Friday that Jones will not play in the Raiders’ season opener. That comes as no surprise given the ongoing tension between player and club in this bizarre situation. The absence of Jones will put added emphasis on fellow starter Maxx Crosby and first-round rookie Tyree Wilson in the pass-rush department against the Broncos. McDaniels added that cornerback Brandon Facyson will miss Sunday’s game as well.
SEPTEMBER 7: Chandler Jones‘ tirade against the Raiders continued late last night, with the pass rusher claiming on social media that the organization sent a crisis team to his house. As relayed by ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez, Jones posted a series of since-deleted Instagram stories explaining the events and questioning why he isn’t allowed to play this weekend.
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In one post, Jones showed a picture of a “badge belonging to a member of the Vegas CRT,” with the player claiming the individual said he was a “danger.” Jones also showed a series of texts with Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels, where the player added a note that he “won’t share anything else” if the Raiders let him play (via Vic Tafur of The Athletic).
“Now I understand why players turn to social media,” Jones wrote. “At first I frowned upon it. But it’s out only outlet. If I didn’t do this, it would’ve been kept under wraps.”
These late-night social media posts were a continuation of Jones’ bizarre outburst against the Raiders that began earlier this week. Jones started his rant by claiming he was locked out of the Raiders practice facility and had to work out at a local gym. In since-deleted posts, Jones also claimed he no longer wanted to play under head coach Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler.
Jones has missed practice and team meetings this week, making it increasingly unlikely that he’ll be active in Denver on Sunday. McDaniels declined to say whether Jones will be in uniform for the season opener.
“We’ve never really gone into those kind of things, so I’m going to steer away from that,” McDaniels said earlier this week (via Gutierrez).
Jones is in the second year of a three-year, $51MM pact he signed with the Raiders in 2022.
I don’t think he’s okay
He seems extremely well spoken and lucid for someone “not okay.” The raiders have proven more than once that they will treat their players however they feel like it and something happened between both parties to prevent jones from being allowed to work out on site or practice with the team.
Care to share an example of their mistreatment?
The Josh Jacobs scenario comes to mind.
And Derek Carr’s bizarre benching last year.
The Raiders offered $12 million a year to Jacobs but he declined due to guarantees. The Raiders aren’t the only team to not value running backs to the degree the running backs want to be valued. Running backs have a short shelf life and it’s a hard balancing act on when they will reach their peak and fall off.
Benching Carr was the best option to ensure his contract wasn’t guaranteed due to an injury. They made a mistake in thinking Carr would help them with a trade but his market wasn’t as great as he thought it would be. If it wasn’t for the Saints he wouldn’t have got the contract he wanted. The Jets weren’t interested unless option 1 fell through. Carr was never the same after his injury. He lost that IT factor and always looked shook in the pocket.
The Jacobs scenario was bad not just because of what occurred this year, but what they did last year. They declined that fifth year option, and allegedly spread rumors that they were going to cut Jacobs loose. After Jacobs had a career year with the Raiders running him into the ground, the team did not reward his efforts or admit that they made the wrong choice. Instead, they refused to concede any more money to him. However, they also refused to cut him loose. They were going to have Jacobs at their price, and their price only. So, yes, they mistreated Jacobs for the team’s gain, which is even worse because it was the team’s own poor judgement that led to the scenario. The Raiders ended up in the situation they were in because of their own actions, not Jacobs’.
As far as Carr goes, yes, you proved my point there. Sitting him was the best way to preserve his injury guarantee not kicking in. Who does that benefit? It’s not Carr. After years of good leadership from Carr, for a team that didn’t offer him much consistency on the field, the new regime sat him to avoid guarantees. The team was using him for maximum value. Sitting him certainly didn’t help on the field. I’m not sure what Carr did to deserve that.
Sorry but Carr was a mediocre QB not a top 10 QB. The Raiders didn’t owe him anything and had to look out for their best interests. Losing him to an injury and being stuck with his contract did no good. Just because he was a Raider for many years the organization didn’t owe him anything. He didn’t take them to the Super Bowl or even an AFC championship game. He had players around him and did very little. Yes they needed a better defense but a great QB can overcome a mediocre defense.
For Jacobs, they didn’t pick up his fifth year option because most teams don’t do it for running backs. He had a tremendous year last year and they did offer him a multi year contract in the offseason with 12 million per year. He feels he can get 15 million a year and a lot more in guarantees, but it didn’t play out this year for running backs. Last year was the first year that he played all the games without an injury. He had two straight years where he missed a couple of games and was averaging 3.9 and 4 yards per carry. He had a breakout season, oh and I forgot who the coach was during the breakout year. Was it McDaniels? The guy everyone talks crap about that actually got the best out of Jacobs? The new regime didn’t know what they had in Jacobs and that’s why they didn’t secure the fifth year guarantee. Even if they did sign him to that guarantee, Jacobs would probably have sat out over the summer wanting a larger contract. I hope that Jacobs is re-signed in the offseason but I also hope that the deal is fair for both sides.
But that’s the entire point. You can disparage Carr all you like and claim that the team doesn’t owe him at all, but the Raiders looked out for their interests, not his. Same with Jacobs. That was the entire prompt-someone asked for examples of mistreatment. By your own admission, the Raiders looked out for their own interests, nevermind what the players who have given much effort to the team needed. That is where the sentiment came from. As for Jacobs…the brilliant McDaniels could have had another year of his services on his rookie deal. If McDaniels knew what he had, and was so brilliant to plan all of this, you’d think that he’d have wanted to take up the option.
Were the Raiders stupid for doing what they did? No, I’m not saying that. They made smart team decisions. However, they certainly made those decisions without the best interests of those players in mind. Are they wrong in this current scenario? Maybe, maybe not. That’s a separate issue. But it is clear that Vegas will make decisions based on their iwn needs only.
The one year contract Jacobs signed is similar to the fifth year option the Raiders could have picked up. It didn’t cost them that much more and it protected them from him having an injury last year and not being the best back in the league. Jacobs deserves to be paid, but how can anyone be upset with the route they took.
Because you extend players you want to keep, not drag them along on a cheap tag. Letting Jacobs play out his 5th year is like saying FU
Carr isn’t a top QB but he did a good job for them, and he got thrown out of the building. Good luck finding that top 10 QB. Almost every team is still looking.
They treated Jacobs like trash, not extending him and playing him on the tag. Who wants to play for a team like that?
They offered Jacobs a contract extension worth more than $12 million per year. They do value him but they don’t want to go crazy with a top of the market running back contract when the market isn’t there for the position. They didn’t pick up his option because they knew they could tag him or sign him to an extension in the offseason and there’s nothing wrong with that. It was a new regime and they needed to see him in action and make sure he fit their profile going forward. They didn’t treat him like trash and their relationship is still strong.
You’re right about most teams looking for that top 10 quarterback. We were just spinning our wheels with Carr and couldn’t even make the playoffs with a top 3 running back and wide receiver. Carr killed too many drives and didn’t fit the system well. The Raiders needed a fresh start and it looks like AC might be a good QB in the future for us. Jimmy G can be the stop gap and fits McDaniels system better overall.
Adams saying he doesn’t see eye to eye w/ the HC & FO.
I’m pretty sure lying to authorities about somebody being in danger and wasting valuable public resources, which could’ve resulted in the deaths of other people in need of those resources, just to intimidate a player to show up to practice is a pretty good example.
It’s also illegal. And I hope the organization is receiving the appropriate fines for it.
I don’t think anyone cares about that, especially Mark Davis and the Raiders
McDaniels has a history of abrasiveness in Denver with Cutler and Marshall, then walking out on Indy, then how they treated Jacobs and Carr. Even though Jones may be a head case and there’s probably more we don’t know, I wouldn’t want to work for the Raiders.
I dont think it’s a “raiders” thing. I think it’s a McDaniels thing. He was sin the same way in Denver with Cutler and Marshall. I know many Raider fans loved while many hated Al Davis, but I sure miss the man. For starters, Gruden would’ve never been fired and McDaniels wouldn’t be HC along with TB12 having a stake in ownership. The real problem is Mark Davis letting guys like McDaniels run the team fully.
I will take Chandler Jones’s word over the Raiders, especially since Josh McDaniels is the coach. A clown car organization with Bozo running the show.
I’d say McDaniels is the problem. You can say what you want about the Raiders, But the fact is they are one of the most valuable franchises in the league. They have won some super bowls (more than a lot of teams can say). They have inducted more players into the Hall of Fame than many teams can say. They arguably have the greatest team ever to grace the field in the 1976 Raiders. Yes you can say all is in the past but that’s just adds to the greatness. They have stunk for 20 years and are still up there in many categories. Imagine if they hadn’t?
2 broken ribs beg to differ with your 1976 comment.
Curious to find out how this all started and how it all plays out…
Damn Jon Jones’ brother making and deleting late night social media posts. Color me shocked
Fire McDaniels
Early signs of CTE?
I don’t know if that’s how CTE works. I think that it’s greatest effects are regarding impulse control and mood, not deliberate actions, but I could be pretty wrong.
Technically he’s not in control of his impulses or his moods at this point
Or it could be ‘lack of mutual communication’ has created an adversarial relationship with an adolescent retaliatory team front office and an immature head coach.
McDaniels has been exposed many times by Waller and his wife too. Dude is an all around all pro Grade A asshat lmao
I’ll take the word of Chandler Jones over the Raiders and Josh McDaniels. Jones only past issues has been being drunk and that was in his patriot days. McDaniels is a joke.
Typical Raiders drama
Release him, we don’t need this type of distraction from a player who picks and chooses which plays he wants to participate in. Guy has a lot of talent but doesn’t have the drive anymore to be great. 5 sacks in a year is dismal especially when the man across the line is being double teamed and still putting up double digit sacks. Jones showed up for 3 games last year and if it wasn’t for his 3 sack performance in one of those games he would have ended the year with less than 2 sacks. Let him go to a team where he thinks he can thrive and put up 6 or 7 sacks. We need players who want to win and show up every down.
Sure the Raiders have been a bit nonsensical all around for the past few years, but this whole situation is just odd. If Jones keeps posting and deleting wacky stuff, maybe there’s more than smoke there.
Dissatisfaction between players and team all have McDaniel as a commonality.
His past leadership examples were glaringly immature in modern era. Trying to be a west coast BB with a dictator like style is hard for most people to accept and doesn’t add a cohesive ‘team’ atmosphere to any workplace.
Granted some players have inflated self worth with obvious unchecked ego controls.
Past reports related to Carr, Jacobs, Adams, Waller and Renfrow point to McDaniel continuing his Denver tactics in ‘coaching’.
Would doubt he’ll finish the season and might not land back in NE. Mark needs to do a better job of ensuring the raiders return to being Raiders! Not the team I root for but Damn the AFC West needs better from the S&B
I don’t know the full story and there definitely could be some fault on the Raiders side but Jones is handling the situation very unprofessionally. You can’t air your dirty laundry on the internet and the fact that it keeps being posted then deleted, shows that either himself or someone in his camp knows as much.
A lot is being said about how the Raiders have handled their players under McDaniels. Carr wasn’t getting the job done, so they made the decision to cut bait and move on to another option. They didn’t pick up JJ’s option and they couldn’t get a deal worked out this off-season, but there was an effort made. How much of an effort is unknown but you still can’t blame them for following suit in what the RB market has become league wide. I love Jacobs and want him around so hopefully they can get something worked out but by no means was it a bad football decision. Darren Waller was a huge injury risk and unreliable for that type of TE money so they moved on and found more affordable options at the position. Regardless of how you feel about the Raiders or McDaniels you can’t question the football decisions behind the moves they’ve made with the above mentioned players, if you’re looking at it objectively.
We’ll see how this all plays out but Jones definitely isn’t acting like a professional on his side of the situation.
Chandler, Chandler, Chandler. You just need a wee bit of gambling therapy to calm those stressed out nerves. Fortunately for you, you’re in the perfect location to place a few NFL bets this weekend.
So which NFL owner gets forced to sell this time?
I’m not sure it matters since I have about $1.79 in my piggie bank to outbid other interested parties.
McDaniels is gonna run this team into the ground, too much power for a head coach that’s never proved he can even be a head coach, Adams will be wanting out by the end of the season