{"id":54684,"date":"2018-12-10T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=54684"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:20:48","slug":"oakland-raiders-fire-general-manager-reggie-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/12\/10\/oakland-raiders-fire-general-manager-reggie-mckenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Raiders Fire General Manager Reggie McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising 24-21 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers was not enough to save Oakland Raiders General Manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=McKeRe20,McKeRe21&amp;search=Reggie+McKenzie&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reggie McKenzie<\/a><\/strong>. According to reports by NFL Networks\u2019 <strong>Ian Rapoport<\/strong>, the Raiders have decided to part ways with McKenzie following a 3-10 start to the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Raiders<\/a> GM Reggie McKenzie had a meeting with his scouts today where he informed them he was fired, per me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TomPelissero<\/a>. He was given the chance to stay the season, but is not expected to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1072182127473672193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Oakland Raiders Relieve Reggie McKenzie of Duties<\/h1>\n<p>Monday\u2019s firing doesn\u2019t come as that big of a surprise around the NFL landscape. The Raiders, currently 3-10, have one of the weaker rosters in the league. Additionally, the team traded away star pass rusher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MackKh00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack<\/a><\/strong> prior to the season after <strong>Jon Gruden<\/strong> and McKenzie didn\u2019t see eye-to-eye on an extension. In all, the Raiders went 9-20 over the last two years of McKenzie\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie first joined the Raiders organization prior to the 2012 season. Taking over for the departed <strong>Al Davis<\/strong>, McKenzie\u2019s first course of action was firing then-coach <strong>Hue Jackson<\/strong> and replacing him with <strong>Dennis Allen<\/strong>. Inheriting a bad salary cap situation with minimal draft picks, the Raiders went 8-24 under McKenzie\u2019s first two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fate of the Raiders franchise appeared to be on the rise after back-to-back successful drafts. In 2014, Allen selected Khalil Mack and quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CarrDe02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Carr<\/a> <\/strong>with his first two picks, and followed it up by drafting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CoopAm00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amari Cooper<\/a><\/strong> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie\u2019s time as GM peaked during the 2016 season. With Derek Carr playing at a borderline MVP level, the Raiders improved to 11-5, earning their first playoff berth since 2002. However, Carr suffered a season-ending injury in Week 16, and the Raiders went one-and-done against the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, this was not McKenzie\u2019s first tenure with the Raiders franchise. Back in 1985, the then-Los Angeles Raiders selected him in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> round of the 1985 NFL Draft. McKenzie spent five years in the NFL, four of which came with the Raiders franchise. During that time, McKenzie appeared in 58 games at linebacker, starting 40 and recording two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"ppilYVFgTsFnCXQ_6qpayg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1018603516\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ppilYVFgTsFnCXQ_6qpayg',sig:'a9xfzuYgbBTskFjAbuKhZAQDB_vpLZswROF4HuGjoUg=',w:'594px',h:'401px',items:'1018603516',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Raiders fired longtime General Manager Reggie McKenzie after a 3-10 start to the season, per NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":54686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,36],"tags":[61,40,246,157,976],"class_list":["post-54684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-raiders","category-nfl-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-news","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-reggie-mckenzie"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}