{"id":88024,"date":"2025-01-23T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=88024"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:47:14","slug":"autumn-winds-1-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=88024","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Winds: 1\/23\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Matt Khitikian<\/p>\n

Raiders Spy a GM; Head Coach to Soon Follow?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If anyone has doubt about Tom Brady\u2019s influence over the Raiders\u2019 search for a GM and head coach, put them to rest because his ex-teammate from Michigan is now the General Manager for Las Vegas. <\/p>\n

John Spytek has left his Assistant GM position in Tampa Bay to take over as GM for the Raiders.  Spytek has been part of NFL circles for over two decades and has served on the Tampa Bay staff for the past 6 years.  <\/p>\n

Of course, this means that Spytek and Brady were both part of the Buccaneers at the same time, and familiarity may help the two sync as they look to reclaim the Raiders\u2019 past glory.  However, given that Vegas churns through GMs like slot machines through bank accounts, Spytek may not want to get too comfy in his position.  The looming shroud of a short-leash makes Spytek\u2019s choice of QB all the more important.  Rookie in a \u2018bad\u2019 QB-draft class (which would likely necessitate a trade up in the draft)?  Veteran castoff?  Go all-in on a trade (J.J. McCarthy)?    <\/p>\n

Spytek has a lot of critical decisions to make and not a lot of time to make them.  The stakes?  Just the future of the franchise.  It\u2019s Vegas, after all\u2026who\u2019d expect anything less? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Matt Khitikian Raiders Spy a GM; Head Coach to Soon Follow? If anyone has doubt about Tom Brady\u2019s influence over the Raiders\u2019 search for a GM and head coach, put them to rest because his ex-teammate from Michigan is now the General Manager for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88025,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88024\/revisions\/88025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}