{"id":801648,"date":"2026-08-03T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801648\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:22:08","slug":"klint-kubiak-we-dont-have-any-turds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801648\/","title":{"rendered":"Klint Kubiak: “We don’t have any turds”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Raiders have cycled through several head coaches in recent years, with Josh McDaniels, Antonio Pierce, and Pete Carroll all having the full-time role since Jon Gruden resigned midway through the 2021 season. <\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s Klint Kubiak\u2019s job, as the first-time head coach has liked what he\u2019s seen as the club tries to change its culture after registering just seven wins in the last two seasons combined.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we just have a professional group of players. They care about getting better,\u201d Kubiak said in his Monday press conference. \u201cWe don\u2019t have any turds<\/a> \u2014 we\u2019ve got guys that want to be here, that want to win, that want to change this place. So, I\u2019m really happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when it comes to culture, Kubiak wants the players to define it for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s things we talk about in team meetings, but words are really just \u2014 they\u2019re just words,\u201d Kubiak said. \u201cSo, I think the most important thing is, we watch our tape and we talk about what is acceptable and what is not. What effort looks like, what it doesn\u2019t look like. And then we let the players go set that standard. So, it\u2019s their game, not ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see if Kubiak\u2019s changes have their intended effect once the season begins in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders have cycled through several head coaches in recent years, with Josh McDaniels, Antonio Pierce, and Pete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-801648","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\/801648","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=801648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}