Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis demonstrated again this week that he will not let money influence how he operates his franchise.
The firings of head coach Josh McDaniels, general manager Dave Ziegler and some of the coaching staff will cost Davis approximately $85 million, league sources told ESPN.
Some of those costs will be defrayed by offsets and mitigation, but the firings were, as one source described to ESPN, «an expensive move nonetheless.» The costs didn't stop there for the Raiders, who also reworked the contracts of interim head coach Antonio Pierce and interim GM Champ Kelly.
Some sources around the organization say Davis isn't worried about money — he's worried about putting together a winning organization, which is what led to this week's shakeup, costs be damned. «Unfortunately, I had great hopes for Josh and Dave,» Davis told ESPN's Paul Gutierrez on Wednesday. «It just seemed we were going in the wrong direction.