A poll conducted by EssentiallySports’ The Huddle newsletter shows most fans place the blame on Mark Davis, with Pete Carroll receiving the least blame

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  1. Clearly non-Raiders fans that don’t watch the games are voting purely off of reputation.

    Davis and Carroll absolutely share a lion’s share of the blame.

  3. Mark davis is the biggest reason we are in this position. Followed by Pete Carroll and then his son, Brennan the noob Carroll.

  4. This is mostly on Mark. He hired McDaniels who gutted the roster and got almost nothing back for the pieces we lost.

    Put it on the fans too for clamoring for getting rid of Carr before we had another quarterback lined up to take over. This is the dumbass shit that we get when we make knee jerk reactions to the roster. Letting Spillane walk was a mistake, our defense is still full of massive holes.

    I think Spytek has done a good job of getting this team heading in the right direction but we were definitely more than a season out from being a contender the roster had way too many holes as it is and having AP as the HC really highlighted that.

  8. Caroll deserves most of the blame. We’re playing the worst quarterback in the league basically no matter what he does he won’t get benched. His loyalty is to Geno over the Raiders.

  10. The poll should have just had a button with “ownership.”

    The mess of the 2025 season started well north of Pete and the front office—the owners (plural) created the organizational misalignment with what seemed separate parallel GM and HC hires (officially hired a day apart), and then (seemingly) extending their hiring process to the OC/DC.

    Who’s the boss? Who is in charge? Who is running the Raiders at the ownership level? These questions with Brady and the other minority owners was a lot muddier in 2025 compared to past seasons.

    The Raiders are chronically dysfunctional bc they are setup to be dysfunctional.

  11. I mean at the end of the day the players play so I’m unsure why they don’t get more of the blame. Also the roster overall just sucks. It’s not like there are multiple all pros on both sides of the ball. In fact, if there was an anti-all pro team the raiders might have the most players. They’re not even average, they’re flat out terrible.

  12. What collapse? Wouldn’t there have to have been success in order to ‘collapse’?

    I know Pete sucks & I didn’t think it was a good hire but to blame anyone that’s been around less than a year is rough. So many problems have been around through several regimes.

  13. Spytek is wild…

    Jeanty will be fine and none of his other picks have gotten a chance. 2 rookie WR’s losing snaps to Lockett (Pete’s guy) and 2 rookie OL losing snaps to Forsythe (Pete’s guy).

  16. Mark Davis and his idiotic decisions. Especially the McDaniels decision that put us deep in this spiral. But as for this season, whoever was in charge of building the o-line and decided this was the group that could compete at this level.

  17. Who’s idea was it to sign Geno and who’s idea was it to not address the O-line in the off-season?

  19. I’m surprised you guys aren’t blaming Derek Carr since he always had the blame and hate

  20. Roster is a mismatched mess, but the team is terrible because the coaches are stubborn about scheme and system.

    Running cover-3 without cover-3 personnel, running zone blocking with a line not suited for it, etc …

  22. Were we supposed to go to Superbowl? Team strategically held back upgrading the roster. We could’ve done better and disappointed, yes, but collapse should be used for teams like Chiefs.

  25. From the outside looking in, I’d guess this as well, but with more blame on Pete. He brought so many of his own coaches, and players in. Souter should get the least blame, first season as a GM and you can’t necessarily judge draft classes after 1 season. Mark Davis is the number 1 problem with the raiders.
    I’ve been a Broncos fan for many years and the years we wasted with the trust and shaky ownership were fucking ass. Ownership matters so much in this league and Mark Davis is top 5 worst in the league. Hopefully Brady has some magic left because the division is better with a good raiders team

  26. Mark Davis, and it’s not even close. I wish he’d sell the team he’s an idiot

  27. This is obviously some poll from an AFC West rival who wants Pete Carroll around as long as possible.

  29. It fucking sucks, I’m 90% blaming Pete for this year. The other 10% is on Spytek. Just based on what has been reported is that Pete was in control. If thats the case, why does Mark Davis keep giving control to coaches so much ? Just trust a GM like you did with Reggie McKenzie.

  31. I might be wrong here, but I don’t really blame Mark Davis. Obviously, the last two decades haven’t worked, so he ultimately bears responsibility, but I don’t see him as a meddling owner. He doesn’t seem to pull strings behind the scenes, override the GM, or pull rank to force bad decisions. It genuinely looks like he hires people and lets them do their jobs.

    And it’s not for lack of effort. Over the past few years, he’s spent tens of millions trying to find an anchor for this franchise. He’s clearly missed on some hires, but that alone doesn’t make him a bad owner.

    Just my two cents.

  32. The Davis family has been garbage ownership for a long time. It’s all their fault, all of it.

  35. Brendan Carroll needs to be listed. He took an OLine that had made progress two years ago after adding a few rookies to the mix. Only to have the rookies moved around into positions they weren’t comfortable with and made the line worse.

    Without a functioning OLine, many parts of the game fall apart. Run game is poor and then the passing game goes with it.

  37. Ol Marky doesn’t deserve that much blame. He doesn’t cheap out with coach money. Lot of stuff behind the scenes we don’t know about. Feel like after game 4 or 5 we wrapped it up anyway. Can’t tell the fan base that though.

  39. We’ve nothing short of a been a “farm” team for 20+ years… it’s the Davis family’s fault 100%.

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