{"id":675846,"date":"2026-05-31T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675846\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:48:10","slug":"raiders-insider-shares-what-players-told-him-about-mcdaniels-and-carrolls-long-inefficient-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675846\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Insider Shares what Players Told Him about McDaniels and Carroll’s Long, Inefficient Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Raiders have become no strangers to coaching regime changes and looking back at some of their failed hires in recent years, it\u2019s interesting to see where people on the inside feel like those coaching staffs failed fell short. <\/p>\n

On his podcast this week, Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter talked about the Josh McDaniels and Pete Carroll eras and shared a few details on how both coaches were perceived by players \u2013 or at least certain players. <\/p>\n

According to Carpenter, McDaniels loved long meetings and the players joked that he never liked to see a meeting end. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Josh McDaniels was here, there was a sentiment he never wanted to leave a meeting,\u201d Carpenter said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI had one player who would tell me about Josh McDaniels\u2026 they liked him the person off the field\u2026 away from football and you can be away from football in the building. But they said, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything Josh McDaniels dislikes more than having to say, \u2018meeting is over.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, under Pete, there was a lot of meetings. But they weren\u2019t always efficient. I\u2019m not going to get into detail. I would just tell you, there was one particular meeting of which I was made aware, where one of the coaches was teaching something and talking about something [with] his boss\u2026 and the players are sitting there, and literally there\u2019s a discussion going on among the coaches. That stuff should be all handled at meetings, coaches\u2019 meetings, so that when you get into a classroom setting, it\u2019s boom, boom, boom, boom efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carpenter said Klint Kubiak is bringing a different vibe to the Raiders this year, but it\u2019s worth noting that there weren\u2019t many criticisms of McDaniels and Carroll in their first months with the team, either. <\/p>\n

Players seem to be responding well to Kubiak<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all ball with him,\u201d veteran cornerback Eric Stokes said last week. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I love. He steps up, but he isn\u2019t taking no little giggles, no nothing. We about business. We\u2019re coming in, we\u2019re doing this and doing that, there isn\u2019t any other unnecessary stuff going on. Like, nah, he\u2019s just straight ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kubiak talked last week about his initial meetings with the players and said it\u2019s all about business and upholding the new standard in the Raiders\u2019 building. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll find out if we get it by training camp, if we can uphold the standard that we put in front of these players in our team meeting,\u201d Kubiak said last week. \u201cIf our conditioning level is where it needs to be, if we can practice the right way, if we can handle our business outside of the building and we can represent the shield the right way, then we\u2019ll put it back on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead, a few key dates for Kubiak and the Raiders leading up to training camp are the final OTA sessions coming next week and a three-day mandatory minicamp in the second week of June.<\/p>\n

Organized Team Activities (OTAs)<\/p>\n

June 1\u20134: OTA Workouts<\/p>\n

Mandatory Minicamp<\/p>\n

June 9\u201311: Mandatory Minicamp. All players are required to attend. <\/p>\n

x: @raidersbeat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders have become no strangers to coaching regime changes and looking back at some of their failed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-675846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}