The Las Vegas Raiders are dismissing head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler, per ESPN's Adam Schefter, following a rough showing in Monday Night Football against the Detroit Lions. McDaniels was 9-16 with the team.

Many fans will be relieved to head in another direction, but this move just highlights how much further the Raiders have to go until they are a consistently competent football team once again. Making matters worse, McDaniels signed a six-year contract in January of 2022. The organization is therefore on the hook for the remaining four years of this ill-fated deal.

Something definitely needed to change, but a management overhaul is going to do little unless owner Mark Davis can find the right men to lead this franchise back into relevance. The last two coaching hires have left a bitter taste in fans' mouths, albeit for very different reasons.

Raiders were going backwards under Josh McDaniels

McDaniels could not turn the offense around, despite being reunited with a quarterback who knows his system well in Jimmy Garoppolo. A disastrous effort on the road versus the Lions, which dropped the Raiders to 3-5, was the last piece of evidence Davis needed to see.

One cannot just gloss past the Davie Ziegler aspect of this news. Firing a GM after less than two years is a bit surprising, but someone was going to take the heat for bringing in Josh McDaniels. The fact that he is not being given a mulligan shows fans how fed up Davis is with his team's current trajectory.

The Raiders already have their next plan in motion as they prepare for a home matchup with the New York Giants this Sunday. Focus will surely be on these latest decisions rather than the game, though. With the bleak Ziegler-McDaniels era officially over, fans can only hope that the sun will start to peak through the dark clouds that loom above Allegiant Stadium.